HP Insight Control - Manual (Page 20)

5 Managing virtual machines
Task: Taking backup of virtual machine management database
You must perform a backup of the VMM database to recover the configuration files/data in case
the application crashes.
Take a backup of the following two registry entries:
Installation Key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\HP\Insight Control virtual machine management
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\HP\Insight Control virtual
machine management
Uninstallation Key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\HP
Insight Control virtual machine management_is1
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\HP
Insight Control virtual machine management_is1
NOTE: If the machine is 64 bit, these entries will be at 32–bit space and 64–bit space
Additionally, the VMM requires that you take a backup of these files:
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[ProdDir]/log
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[ProdDir]/bin/hpglobal.conf
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[ProdDir]/bin/hpvmm.conf
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[ProdDir]/clientapi/bin/hpvmm.conf
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[HPSIM]/hpvmm.conf
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[ProdDir]/bin/windows/hpvmmsvc.conf
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[ProdDir]/bin/windows/hpvmmweb.conf
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[ProdDir]/lib/vmtoolstrust.ks
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[ProdDir]/../VMMTemplateLib
Here, ProdDir is the VMM Installation Directory and HP SIM is the HP SIM Installation Directory
Task: VMM security properties
The VMM runs with administrative permissions. Hence, it is important to ensure that the management
server is appropriately protected to avoid unauthorized access.
VMM supports the following ciphers for encrypted SSL connection:
1.
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SSL_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_MD5
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SSL_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA
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TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA
2. Insight Control virtual machine management uses Systems Insight Manager generated self-signed
certificates. In order to communicate with vCenter on HTTPS, you must enforce host/vCenter
certificate validation for performing any operation on the host. By default, VMM does not
enforce host certificate validation. To enforce the host/vCenter certificate, you must set the
"RequireCertificate" parameter to '1' in hpvmm.conf file, found in the following location:
/bin/hpvmm.conf
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