HP Insight Control User Manual
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Table 5 Icons and tasks
Function
Icon
Start/resume
Shutdown/stop
Pause
Reset/restart
The following tables list supported features for various virtualization layers.
Table 6 Supported Insight Control virtual machine management features in various virtualization
layers
Xen
distribution
on SLES
Xen
distribution
on RHEL
Microsoft
Hyper-V R2
server
HP
integrated
ESXi /
HP
integrated
ESXi 5.0
1
HP
integrated
ESXi /
VMware
ESX 4.1
1
Features
VMware
ESX 4.0
1
Insight Control virtual machine management features
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
Virtual machine host registration
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
Virtual machine discovery
Data transfer features
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
Copy virtual machine
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
Move virtual machine
X
X
✓
✓
✓
✓
SAN move virtual machine
X
X
✓
✓
✓
✓
Live move virtual machine
—
—
✓
—
—
✓
Quick move virtual machine
Template features
X
X
✓
✓
✓
✓
Create template from virtual
machine
X
X
✓
✓
✓
✓
Deploy template as virtual
machine
Backup features
X
X
✓
✓
✓
✓
Create backup for virtual
machine
X
X
✓
✓
✓
✓
Restore backup for virtual
machine
X
X
✓
✓
✓
✓
Performance metrics collection
X
X
✓
✓
✓
✓
Set performance threshold
X
X
X
✓
✓
✓
Events collection
X
X
✓
✓
✓
✓
Prefailure alert handling (PFA)
X
X
X
✓
✓
✓
Upgrade a virtual machine guest
template (applicable for
VMware ESX only)
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Using Insight Control virtual machine management