HP Insight Control - Manual (Page 3)

Contents
1 Introduction...............................................................................................6
Overview................................................................................................................................6
Infrastructure............................................................................................................................6
Systems Insight Manager console integration................................................................................6
Agentless management.............................................................................................................8
Setting the correct host name length............................................................................................8
2 Key concepts.............................................................................................9
Heterogeneous environment.......................................................................................................9
Virtual machine........................................................................................................................9
Virtual machine host.................................................................................................................9
Virtual machine guest................................................................................................................9
Handling Pre-Failure Alerts (PFA).................................................................................................9
3 Initial setup..............................................................................................10
Licensing...............................................................................................................................10
Licensing VMM through the HP Insight Control license manager...............................................10
Licensing standalone VMM.................................................................................................10
Adding standalone licenses.................................................................................................10
Applying standalone licenses..............................................................................................10
Configuring...........................................................................................................................11
Configuring WMI Mapper proxy server settings for Microsoft Hyper-V server.............................11
Configuring VMM on a Microsoft Cluster Server....................................................................11
Updating the HP SIM certificate on CMS..............................................................................12
Registering and unregistering...................................................................................................12
Registering virtual machine hosts..........................................................................................12
Methods of registering virtual machine hosts.....................................................................12
Registering virtual machine hosts using the Configure or Repair Agents tool..........................12
Registering virtual machine hosts using the menu...............................................................12
Manually registering virtual machine hosts........................................................................12
Unregistering virtual machine hosts......................................................................................13
Manually Unregistering virtual machine hosts........................................................................13
4 Using Insight Control virtual machine management.......................................15
Insight Control virtual machine management interface overview....................................................15
Using Insight Control virtual machine management controls and tools............................................15
Configuring the polling frequency for virtual machine status checks...............................................17
Creating a CriticalVmHost collection.........................................................................................17
VMware ESX Server Guest System page....................................................................................18
Performance information..........................................................................................................18
Performance color codes.........................................................................................................18
Multisystem aware tools available.............................................................................................19
5 Managing virtual machines.......................................................................20
Task: Taking backup of virtual machine management database ...................................................20
Task: VMM security properties .................................................................................................20
Enabling certificate validation and Certificate Revocation List (CRL) validation............................22
Task: Logging VMM logs into Windows NT Events......................................................................22
Task: Handling pre-failure events..............................................................................................23
Prerequisites......................................................................................................................23
Handling automatic pre-failure events...................................................................................24
Handling automatic pre-failure events using the vCenter Server DRS cluster enabled in the vCenter
Server..............................................................................................................................24
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