HP Insight Control - Manual (Page 24)

Handling automatic pre-failure events
To handle automatic pre-failure events, perform the following:
1. Click Deploy
→Virtual Machine→Handle Virtual Machine Host Prefailure Events.
2. In Step 1, Select the target events, select the PreFailure Events collection that has been created,
then click Apply.
3. Click Add System Filters....
4. Select the Collection under Add filters by selecting from:.
5. Select the system collection that has been created as described in Prerequisites.
6. Click Apply, then Next. The Confirm Details screen appears.
7. To have the events automatically handled, click Schedule. The GUI for Step 2: Schedule
Taskappears. Set the schedule as needed. Click Done, when the event that meets the criteria
on the failed host occurs, and the virtual machines are recovered to an alternate host or to
place the host on maintenance mode.
Handling automatic pre-failure events using the vCenter Server DRS cluster enabled
in the vCenter Server
Prerequisite: The ESX hosts must be in a cluster in VMware vCenter Server and DRS must be enabled
on the cluster.
To handle automatic pre-failure events using the vCenter Server DRS cluster enabled in the vCenter
Server, perform the following:
•
Create a collection in HP SIM containing the ESX hosts that are in the DRS enabled cluster in
vCenter.
•
Configure pre-failure handling using the steps mentioned in Handling automatic pre-failure
events .
When the pre-failure events are generated on any system in the System Collection - Prefailure
VMware ESX Collection, the VMware ESX host is placed in maintenance mode in VMware vCenter
Server. VMware vCenter Server then moves all the virtual machines hosted on this VMware ESX
system onto other hosts available in the VMware Cluster.
Handling semi-automatic pre-failure events with the vCenter Server DRS cluster enabled
in the vCenter Server
In the semi-automatic mode of event handling, verify the SMTP settings in the
Options
→Events→Automatic Event Handling→Email Settings. When a pre-failure event occurs,
you are notified through email. When you receive the email, perform the following steps to handle
the pre-failure events:
1. Select Deploy
→Virtual Machine→Handle Virtual Machine Host Prefailure Events.
2. In the Step 1, Select the target events page, select the PreFailure Events collection that has
been created. Click Apply.
3. Click Add System Filters....
4. Select the Collection under Add filters by selecting from:.
5. Select the system collection that has been created. Perform the steps to create a collection as
described in
Prerequisites .
6. Click Apply, then click Next. The Step 2: Confirm Details Pagescreen appears.
7. Click Run Now.
The virtual machines are recovered successfully on to the target host and the source host is placed
in maintenance mode.
Handling automatic pre-failure events using the Set Alternate host feature
Prerequisite: The virtual machines must have an alternate virtual machine host set.
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