HP Insight Control for Linux 6.2 User Guide

10.6.2 Using the partition wizard.............................................................................................122
11 Installing and setting up virtual machines.........................................................125
11.1 Installing virtual hosts............................................................................................................125
11.2 Registering the virtual host with HP Insight Control virtual machine management...........126
11.3 Creating and installing virtual guests....................................................................................127
11.3.1 Guidelines for configuring a VMware ESX or VMware ESXi virtual guest..................127
11.3.2 Guidelines for configuring a KVM virtual guest...........................................................128
11.3.2.1 Installing a RHEL KVM virtual guest....................................................................129
11.3.2.2 Installing a SLES KVM virtual guest......................................................................130
11.3.3 Guidelines for configuring a Xen virtual guest..............................................................132
11.4 Obtaining virtual guest and virtual host associations...........................................................133
11.5 Establishing monitoring for virtual hosts and virtual guests................................................134
11.6 Virtual guest operations.........................................................................................................134
12 Using Insight Control for Linux to update HP ProLiant firmware.....................137
12.1 Overview of updating HP ProLiant firmware.......................................................................137
12.2 Basic firmware update functionality......................................................................................138
12.2.1 Initial setup.....................................................................................................................138
12.2.2 Updating firmware on systems known by HP SIM.......................................................138
12.2.3 Updating firmware on systems during bare-metal discovery.......................................138
12.2.4 Viewing the results of a firmware update......................................................................139
12.2.5 Specifying HPSUM option flags.....................................................................................139
12.2.6 Adding or removing firmware files from the firmware tar file.....................................139
12.2.7 Firmware update time out..............................................................................................140
12.3 Advanced firmware update functionality..............................................................................140
12.3.1 Understanding the firmware configuration file.............................................................141
12.3.2 Example firmware configuration files............................................................................141
13 Installing PSPs on managed systems.................................................................143
13.1 Overview of the PSP installation tool.....................................................................................143
13.2 Required PSP components.....................................................................................................143
13.3 Creating a PSP dependency script.........................................................................................144
13.4 PSP installation procedure.....................................................................................................145
14 ISO control operations........................................................................................147
14.1 Booting an ISO image on a server..........................................................................................147
14.2 Inserting an ISO image...........................................................................................................147
14.3 Ejecting an ISO image.............................................................................................................147
15 Remote server controls........................................................................................149
15.1 Powering off a managed system............................................................................................149
15.2 Powering on a managed system.............................................................................................149
15.3 Rebooting a managed system.................................................................................................149
15.4 HP Insight Control power management................................................................................149
16 Using SSH for remote server management......................................................151
16.1 Setting SSH credentials on managed systems........................................................................151
16.2 Setting SSH credentials for users............................................................................................151
16.3 Running a command on multiple managed systems.............................................................152
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