HP Integrity Virtual Machines Manager Version 4.
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About This Document Thank you for installing HP Integrity Virtual Machines Manager (also called VMMgr, or VM Manager). These release notes describe known issues and other information specific to VM Manager version A.04.00.00.70 (4.0) released in January 2009. VM Manager is a tool that the VM Host system administrator uses to create, monitor, and evaluate HP Integrity Virtual Machines (Integrity VM).
Document Organization This document contains the following chapters: • • Chapter 1 (page 9) introduces HP Integrity VM Manager and the features provided with this release. Chapter 2 (page 13) describes problems known to exist in this release of HP Integrity VM Manager and, where possible, includes workarounds. Related Information You can download the latest version of this document from docs.hp.com.
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1 HP Integrity Virtual Machines Manager This chapter provides an overview of the HP Integrity Virtual Machines Manager (VM Manager) and describes the new features provided with version 4.0 (A.04.00). HP Integrity Virtual Machines Manager HP Integrity Virtual Machines Manager (VM Manager) is the GUI that you can use from your browser to manage Integrity VM resources.
Other components that are integrated with VSE include: — — — HP Application Discovery HP Instant Capacity Manager WBEM providers and other VSE agents For more information about VSE concepts and terminology, including a complete list of the components in the VSE Management Software suite, see the HP Insight Dynamics — VSE and HP VSE Management Software 4.1 Getting Started Guide. Information about HP SMH is available from the following HP SMH website: http://www.hp.
identifiers (WWIDs) to uniquely identify logical unit (LUN) devices (a LUN is the logical unit that refers to the physical storage device). The WWID is a device attribute that is independent of the device’s location in a SAN or in an adapter/controller access path. With a multipath device, the WWID allows one persistent DSF and one LUN hardware path to represent the device, regardless of the number of legacy hardware paths.
• • • • • 12 virtual storage device was created. A new Show physical host bus adapters check box available on each of these tabs allows you to change the view to include the complete storage bus structure, host bus adapters, and multipath storage configurations. The default, simpler view renders more quickly and helps you discern more easily the associations between virtual machines and devices, especially when many multipath storage devices exist on the VM Host.
2 VM Manager Limitations and Known Issues This chapter includes the following information in the sections indicated: Information Section Limitations and restrictions “Limitations and Restrictions” (page 13) Known major issues that affect functionality or usability “Major Issues” (page 13) of VM Manager and any ways you can work around these issues Known minor issues that do not affect functionality or “Minor Issues” (page 13) usability significantly and any ways you can work around these issues Known er
description that might not correctly indicate the type of device. For example, ioscan might report "USB SCSI Stack Adaptor" as the description of a USB DVD drive. If a USB device is used as the backing device for a virtual DVD, it appears on the VM Host Storage or VM Properties Storage tab with the same description given it by ioscan. Although that description might not indicate that the device is a DVD drive, the device is tagged with a DVD icon to indicate that it is a CD or DVD drive.
Workaround The values shown by the meters on the VM Host Virtual Machines tab are correct. Documentation Errors and Limitations This section describes errors, omissions, and limitations in the HP Integrity Virtual Machines Manager Version 4.0 Getting Started Guide and the VM Manager help. VM Manager Software Versions Specified in Publishing History Table of Getting Started Guide When the HP Integrity Virtual Machines Manager Version 4.
VM version 4.0 supports Windows and Linux guest AVIO networking with these Integrity VM version 4.0 patches.
NOTE: Another source of discrepancy is the difference in the way Capacity Advisor and VM Manager present CPU data. Capacity Advisor Profile Viewer and historical utilization reports present CPU data in absolute terms (specifying the number of physical cores used) while VM Manager presents CPU data in terms of percentages (specifying the percentage of available CPU resources being used).
