HP Insight Control Software for Linux - Manual (Page 3)

Table of Contents
1 Introduction...............................................................................................9
Overview...............................................................................................................................................9
Infrastructure...........................................................................................................................................9
HP Systems Insight Manager console integration.........................................................................................9
Agentless management..........................................................................................................................11
2 Key concepts...........................................................................................13
Heterogeneous environment....................................................................................................................13
Virtual machine....................................................................................................................................13
Virtual machine host..............................................................................................................................13
Virtual machine guest............................................................................................................................13
Failed Host Recovery (FHR).....................................................................................................................13
Handling Pre-Failure Alerts (PFA).............................................................................................................13
3 Initial setup..............................................................................................15
Licensing..............................................................................................................................................15
Licensing virtual machine management through the HP Insight Control license manager............................15
Licensing standalone virtual machine management...............................................................................15
Adding standalone licenses...............................................................................................................15
Applying standalone licenses............................................................................................................15
Configuring..........................................................................................................................................16
Configuring the xapi port for Citrix XenServer......................................................................................16
Configuring WMI Mapper proxy server settings for Microsoft Hyper-V server...........................................16
Configuring virtual machine management on a Microsoft Cluster Server..................................................16
Updating the Systems Insight Manager certificate on CMS....................................................................17
Registering and unregistering..................................................................................................................17
Registering virtual machine hosts........................................................................................................17
Methods of registering virtual machine hosts..................................................................................17
Registering virtual machine hosts using the Configure or Repair Agents tool........................................17
Registering virtual machine hosts using the menu............................................................................17
Manually registering virtual machine hosts.....................................................................................18
Unregistering virtual machine hosts....................................................................................................18
4 Using virtual machine management............................................................19
Insight Control virtual machine management interface overview..................................................................19
Using Insight Control virtual machine management controls and tools..........................................................19
Configuring the polling frequency for virtual machine status checks..............................................................21
Failed host recovery..............................................................................................................................21
Setting up the recovery feature................................................................................................................22
Creating a CriticalVmHost collection.......................................................................................................23
VMware ESX Server Guest System page...................................................................................................23
Performance information........................................................................................................................24
Performance color codes........................................................................................................................24
Multisystem aware tools available...........................................................................................................24
5 Managing virtual machines.......................................................................25
Task: Logging virtual machine management logs into Windows NT Events....................................................25
Task: Handling pre-failure events.............................................................................................................25
Prerequisites....................................................................................................................................25
Handling automatic pre-failure events.................................................................................................26
Handling automatic pre-failure events using the vCenter Server DRS cluster enabled in the vCenter Server....26
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