HP Insight Control Virtual Machine Management 7.3 User Guide

5 Managing virtual machines

Making a backup of the virtual machine management database

You must perform a backup of the VMM database enable recovery of the configuration files/data

if the application crashes.

Make a backup of the following two registry entries:

Installation Key

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\HP\Insight Control virtual machine management

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\HP\Insight Control virtual

machine management

Uninstallation Key

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\HP

Insight Control virtual machine management_is1

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\HP

Insight Control virtual machine management_is1

NOTE: If the machine is 64 bit, these entries will be at 32–bit space and 64–bit space.

Additionally, the VMM requires that you make a backup of these files:

• [ProdDir]/log

• [ProdDir]/bin/hpglobal.conf

• [ProdDir]/bin/hpvmm.conf

• [ProdDir]/clientapi/bin/hpvmm.conf

• [HPSIM]/hpvmm.conf

• [ProdDir]/bin/windows/hpvmmsvc.conf

• [ProdDir]/bin/windows/hpvmmweb.conf

• [ProdDir]/lib/vmtoolstrust.ks

• [ProdDir]/../VMMTemplateLib

For these files, ProdDir is the VMM installation directory and HP SIM is the HP SIM installation