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6 Managing a virtual machine environment
This chapter introduces the Insight Control virtualization features, which significantly extends Systems Insight
Manager capabilities to manage a virtual environment.
Virtualization overview
The virtualization features of Insight Control provide central management and control for virtual environments
with Microsoft, HyperV, VMware ESX Server, Citrix XenServer, or Xen on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
or SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES).
Insight Control virtualization features enhance the existing features of Systems Insight Manager for managing
physical servers by providing the ability to manage virtual servers in the same console and showing the
relationships between the two.
All tasks can be run from the CMS management console, using existing discovery, identification and
notification processes.
Table 6-1 “Launching virtual machine management features” lists the virtual machine management management
features and how to access them.
Launching virtual machine management features
Table 6-1 Launching virtual machine management features
Description From the CMS management console GUI
Provides the following options:
• Set Alternate Virtual Machine Host... enables you to specify where to
recover a host after receiving a prefailure notification.
•
Set Performance Thresholds... enables you to set the performance
threshold to trigger an Systems Insight Manager event set for either virtual
machine guests or virtual machine hosts.
• Register Virtual Machine Host.. establishes communication between the
virtual machine host and the Systems Insight Manager and virtual machine
consoles.
•
Unregister a Virtual Machine Host... terminates communication between
the virtual machine host and the Systems Insight Manager and virtual machine
management consoles.
Configure →Virtual Machine
Enables you to enter the credentials that were configured on the VMware vCenter
Server Web Service page during the VMware vCenter Server installation.
This configuration is required for the management of VMware ESC servers.
Options
→VMware vCenter Settings...
Enables you to restart, start, stop, and suspend a virtual machine. Tools →Virtual Machine...
Provides the following options:
•
Copy Virtual Machine... copies a virtual machine between virtual machine
hosts with the same virtualization layer.
•
Move Virtual Machine... enables you to Move, SAN Move, Quick Move,
or Live Move a virtual machine between virtual machine hosts with the same
virtualization layer.
•
Handle Virtual Machine Host Prefailure Events... detects certain prefailure
alerts and generates corresponding events.
• Recover Virtual Machines of Failed Host... moves virtual machines from
a failed host to their defined recovery hosts.
•
Backups creates and restores backups of your virtual enviroment.
•
Templates manages virtualization templates that serve as a master copy
for virtual deployments.
Deploy
→Virtual Machine
Obtaining virtual machine management documentation
See the HP Insight Control Virtual Machine Management User Guide for more information about managing
a virtual environment.
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