HP Insight Control Virtual Machine Management 7.3 User Guide

Table 6 Supported Insight Control virtual machine management features in various virtualization
layers (continued)
Xen
distribution
on SLES
Xen
distribution
on RHEL
Microsoft
Hyper-V 3
server
Microsoft
Hyper-V
R2
server
HP
integrated
ESXi /
VMware
ESX 4.0
1
HP
integrated
ESXi
5.51
HP
integrated
ESXi
5.0/5.1
1
HP
integrated
ESXi /
VMware
ESX 4.1
1
Features
XX✓✓✓✓✓✓Set performance
threshold
XXXX✓✓✓✓Events collection
XX✓✓✓✓✓✓Prefailure alert handling
1
Requires VMware vCenter Server.
2
A template can not be created from a VM having snapshots.
NOTE: VMM supports only the deployment of templates via SCVMM.
Configuring the polling frequency for virtual machine status checks
Insight Control virtual machine management provides a configurable parameter,
VMConfigRefreshRate. This parameter controls the frequency with which VMM checks for
changes in virtual machine configuration, such as number of NICs on the virtual machine, size of
the hard disk, and so on. Configuration changes on the virtual machines are updated by VMM.
The default polling frequency is 5 seconds.
Add the following configurable parameter in the hpvmm.conf file found in the CMS location
<Insight Control virtual machine management installation directory on
CMS>/bin:
VMConfigRefreshRate=<<value in milliseconds>>
For example, VMConfigRefreshRate = 5000
The value of the parameter can be between 5 seconds and 5 minutes. Any values entered outside
this range are automatically adjusted to the max/min value of the range.
Increasing the polling frequency reduces the ability of VMM to identify the changes in virtual
machine status.
Creating a CriticalVmHost collection
To create a new collection:
18 Using Insight Control virtual machine management