HP Insight Virtualization Manager with Logical Server Management 6.1 User Guide

Figure 6-7 Create file (VM) storage entry
File (VM) storage entry definition
1. Optional: Change the name of the storage entry by typing in the name box. Each storage
entry is given a unique default name.
2. Optional: Enter a description for the storage entry. If you enter a description and insert the
entry into the storage pool, it is displayed in the Select Pool Entry drop-down menu on
the Modify Storage Configuration tab and the Create Storage Configuration screen.
File (VM) storage selection
1. Click the Add Storage button to on the right side of the screen to add a row to the Storage
Selection table.
2. Enter the size in GB for the storage selection.
3. Select a value from the Storage Path drop-down menu.
All storage volumes for an ESX or Hyper-V virtual machine logical server must be part of
the same data store. (To import a virtual machine, the virtual machine must be using a single
data store.)
File volumes are created on the same disk as the virtual machine's configuration file (.vmx).
A VM guest may be created with one or more virtual disk files (.vmdk). For ESX virtual
machine logical servers, virtual disk files are created with SCSI (scsi0:0 to scsin:n). For
Hyper-V virtual machine logical servers, the first created virtual disk file is IDE (ide0:0),
and all others are SCSI (scsin:n).
4. Repeat steps 1 through 3 for each storage selection for this logical server.
Logical server management follows the same convention established by Microsoft SCVMM of
allowing only one Hyper-V HA virtual machine per clustered data store. Therefore, when you
create a highly available Hyper-V virtual machine logical server and you configure storage, data
stores that already have an HA virtual machine enabled are not presented as available storage
selections. Similarly, if you attempt to import an HA virtual machine, and there are virtual
machines on the same data store, the HA virtual machine will not be imported. Hyper-V only
allows access to only one member of a cluster at a time.
Create a storage pool entry
Insight Dynamics provides a way for the storage administrator to predefine storage in anticipation
of its need. These storage definitions are predefined in the context of a storage pool.
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