HP Insight Control - Manual (Page 17)

Table 6 Supported Insight Control virtual machine management features in various virtualization
layers (continued)
Xen
distribution
on SLES
Xen
distribution
on RHEL
Microsoft
Hyper-V R2
server
HP
integrated
ESXi /
VMware
ESX 4.0
1
HP
integrated
ESXi 5.0
1
HP
integrated
ESXi /
VMware
ESX 4.1
1
Features
X X ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ Deleting a virtual machine guest
template
X X X ✓ ✓ ✓ Upgrade a virtual machine guest
backup (applicable for Vmware
ESX only)
1 Requires VMware vCenter Server.
Configuring the polling frequency for virtual machine status checks
Insight Control virtual machine management provides a configurable parameter,
VMConfigRefreshRate. This parameter controls the frequency with which VMM checks for changes
in virtual machine configuration, such as number of NICs on the virtual machine, size of the hard
disk, and so on. Configuration changes on the virtual machines are updated by VMM. The default
polling frequency is 5 seconds.
Add the following configurable parameter in the hpvmm.conf file found in the CMS location
/bin:
VMConfigRefreshRate= <>
For example, VMConfigRefreshRate = 5000
The value of the parameter can be between 5 seconds and 5 minutes. Any values entered outside
this range are automatically adjusted to the max/min value of the range.
Because increasing the polling frequency also reduces the ability of VMM to identify the changes
in virtual machine status.
Creating a CriticalVmHost collection
1. To create a new collection, from the left pane of the HP SIM screen, click Customize, and then
click New. The New Collection screen appears.
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