HP Insight Virtualization Manager with Logical Server Management 6.1 User Guide

Table of Contents
1 Introduction...................................................................................................................11
Features.................................................................................................................................................11
Virtualization Manager tabs............................................................................................................11
Insight Dynamics menus.................................................................................................................12
Virtualization Manager toolbar.......................................................................................................17
Concepts and terminology....................................................................................................................19
2 Starting Virtualization Manager.................................................................................23
Starting from HP SIM...........................................................................................................................23
Switching views and perspectives........................................................................................................24
3 Using Virtualization Manager views..........................................................................27
Using the visualization view................................................................................................................27
Purpose of the visualization view...................................................................................................27
Components of the visualization view............................................................................................27
Compartment details..................................................................................................................29
Compartment color definitions..................................................................................................31
Technology icons........................................................................................................................32
Using the workload view......................................................................................................................34
Purpose of the workload view........................................................................................................34
Understanding workload types.......................................................................................................35
Creating monitored workloads..................................................................................................36
Viewing and modifying workload definitions..........................................................................36
Updating system workloads......................................................................................................37
Components of the workload view.................................................................................................37
4 Managing logical servers...........................................................................................41
Using logical servers in Virtualization Manager..................................................................................41
Logical servers in visualization perspectives.......................................................................................42
Logical server operations......................................................................................................................44
Activate............................................................................................................................................44
Deactivate........................................................................................................................................44
Create...............................................................................................................................................45
Copy.................................................................................................................................................47
Delete and unmanage......................................................................................................................48
Import..............................................................................................................................................48
Manage storage pools and tags.......................................................................................................48
Manage portability groups..............................................................................................................49
Manage target attributes..................................................................................................................49
Modify.............................................................................................................................................49
Move................................................................................................................................................50
Moving Virtual Connect logical servers.....................................................................................50
Servers with Virtual Connect target hosts............................................................................50
Moving ESX, Hyper-V, and HP Integrity virtual machine logical servers................................52
Virtual machine target hosts.................................................................................................52
Move operation types.................................................................................................................53
Power on and off..............................................................................................................................54
Refresh server resources..................................................................................................................54
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