HP Insight Control Virtual Machine Management 7.3 User Guide
Handling semi-automatic prefailure events with the vCenter Server DRS cluster enabled in the
vCenter Server...................................................................................................................25
Handling automatic prefailure events by using the Set Alternate Virtual Machine Host feature......25
Handling semi-automatic events using the Set Alternate Virtual Machine Host feature..................26
Setting alternate hosts.............................................................................................................26
Making periodic backups of virtual machines.............................................................................26
6 Troubleshooting........................................................................................28
Insight Control virtual machine management controls...................................................................28
Virtual machine customization fails during template deployment ..............................................28
Deploying a virtual machine on a host with the password having the special character (") embedded
within it fails to work as expected.........................................................................................28
VMM API does not work with datastores or VMs named with special characters.........................28
Changing the SCVMM server credentials is not reflected in the UI VMM status icon....................29
Upgrading SCVMM 2008 to SCVMM 2012 and SCVMM 2012 SP1 to SCVMM 2012 R2..........29
VMM does not support management of SCVMM installed on non-English operating system.........29
VMM does not support Management of non-English SCVMM .................................................29
SCVMM Templates of Generation 2 VMs are not supported....................................................29
MOE LinkedClone provisioning fails with SCVMM..................................................................29
Type or name syntax of the registry key value IndigoTcpPort under Software\Microsoft\Microsoft
System Center...................................................................................................................29
User does not have the option to change the VM name in the Select VM Backup Repository Location
step of the create backup wizard..........................................................................................30
Deploying template in Hyper-V hangs at 25% and the job remains incomplete...........................30
VMM loses connectivity to the Hyper-V nodes........................................................................30
VMM loses communication with vCenter...............................................................................30
Virtual machine host and guest icons do not appear in VMM..................................................30
Insight Control virtual machine management does not display the system name, system IP address,
and operating system.........................................................................................................30
Critical status appears for a virtual machine host in VMM.......................................................31
A blank page appears when you launch VMM from HP SIM...................................................31
Virtual machine status is not updated....................................................................................31
Virtual machine guest information becomes inaccessible from VMM.........................................31
A virtual machine host appears in VMM multiple times...........................................................31
Live Move fails after SAN move...........................................................................................32
Virtual machine host experiences extremely slow response time................................................32
Insight Control virtual machine management demo licensing....................................................32
If the same backup is restored multiple times, the Restore Virtual Machine from Backup operation
fails.................................................................................................................................32
Recovery of virtual machine fails with incompatible hardware configurations.............................32
An error occurs when you click Remote Desktop.....................................................................32
Insight Control virtual machine management functions.................................................................32
Service for Hyper-V fails when the bootdisk is created on a disk other than ide0:0 ....................32
Limitation from Virtual Center to enable or disable HotCPUPlug and HotMemoryPlug..................33
VMM cannot manage a Hyper-V VM....................................................................................33
Support for xen on RHEL 5.8 as a managed node fails during VMM registration........................33
Stop VM task does not perform as expected on Xen on RHEL 5.4 x86 virtual machine hosts........33
Error message Unknown to VMM appears when performing the copy operation on a virtual
machine...........................................................................................................................33
Restarting the VMM service while any guest VM lifecycle operation or guest VM movements across
hosts is in progress will result in failure..................................................................................33
Copied or moved Xen virtual machine guest does not start on the destination host......................34
Virtual machine host prefailure even handling does not progress..............................................34
HTTP ERROR: 500 Internal Server Error message appears during a VMM move or copy
operation..........................................................................................................................34
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