HP Insight Control Virtual Machine Management 6.2 User Guide

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Table of Contents

1 Introduction...............................................................................................9

Overview...............................................................................................................................................9

Infrastructure...........................................................................................................................................9

HP Systems Insight Manager console integration.........................................................................................9

Agentless management..........................................................................................................................11

2 Key concepts...........................................................................................13

Heterogeneous environment....................................................................................................................13

Virtual machine....................................................................................................................................13

Virtual machine host..............................................................................................................................13

Virtual machine guest............................................................................................................................13

Failed Host Recovery (FHR).....................................................................................................................13

Handling Pre-Failure Alerts (PFA).............................................................................................................13

3 Initial setup..............................................................................................15

Licensing..............................................................................................................................................15

Licensing virtual machine management through the HP Insight Control license manager............................15

Licensing standalone virtual machine management...............................................................................15

Adding standalone licenses...............................................................................................................15

Applying standalone licenses............................................................................................................15

Configuring..........................................................................................................................................16

Configuring the xapi port for Citrix XenServer......................................................................................16

Configuring WMI Mapper proxy server settings for Microsoft Hyper-V server...........................................16

Configuring virtual machine management on a Microsoft Cluster Server..................................................16

Updating the Systems Insight Manager certificate on CMS....................................................................17

Registering and unregistering..................................................................................................................17

Registering virtual machine hosts........................................................................................................17

Methods of registering virtual machine hosts..................................................................................17

Registering virtual machine hosts using the Configure or Repair Agents tool........................................17

Registering virtual machine hosts using the menu............................................................................17

Manually registering virtual machine hosts.....................................................................................18

Unregistering virtual machine hosts....................................................................................................18

4 Using virtual machine management............................................................19

Insight Control virtual machine management interface overview..................................................................19

Using Insight Control virtual machine management controls and tools..........................................................19

Configuring the polling frequency for virtual machine status checks..............................................................21

Failed host recovery..............................................................................................................................21

Setting up the recovery feature................................................................................................................22

Creating a CriticalVmHost collection.......................................................................................................23

VMware ESX Server Guest System page...................................................................................................23

Performance information........................................................................................................................24

Performance color codes........................................................................................................................24

Multisystem aware tools available...........................................................................................................24

5 Managing virtual machines.......................................................................25

Task: Logging virtual machine management logs into Windows NT Events....................................................25

Task: Handling pre-failure events.............................................................................................................25

Prerequisites....................................................................................................................................25

Handling automatic pre-failure events.................................................................................................26

Handling automatic pre-failure events using the vCenter Server DRS cluster enabled in the vCenter Server....26

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