HP Matrix Operating Environment 7.3 and 7.3 Update 1 Logical Server Management User Guide

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Contents

1 Managing logical servers............................................................................6

Using logical servers in Matrix OE visualization............................................................................6

Logical servers in visualization perspectives..................................................................................8

Logical server operations...........................................................................................................9

Activate..............................................................................................................................9

Deactivate........................................................................................................................10

Create..............................................................................................................................10

Copy................................................................................................................................13

Delete and unmanage........................................................................................................13

Import..............................................................................................................................14

Manage storage pools and tags..........................................................................................14

Manage portability groups..................................................................................................15

Manage target attributes.....................................................................................................16

Modify.............................................................................................................................16

Move...............................................................................................................................16

Moving Virtual Connect logical servers............................................................................17

Servers with Virtual Connect target hosts......................................................................17

Moving ESX, Hyper-V, and HP Integrity virtual machine logical servers.................................18

Virtual machine target hosts.......................................................................................19

Move operation types....................................................................................................19

Power on and off...............................................................................................................21

Refresh server resources......................................................................................................21

View logical server details..................................................................................................22

View logical server job status..............................................................................................22

Authorizations, requirements, and configuration..........................................................................23

Logical server requirements.................................................................................................23

Requirements for virtual machine logical servers................................................................23

VM guest storage options ..............................................................................................26

Requirements for Virtual Connect logical servers................................................................26

Configuring and registering Hyper-V and ESX VM Hosts and VMware vCenter...........................26

Configuring VMware vSphere client settings for browsing data store.........................................26

Configuring Systems Insight Manager with Onboard Administrator credentials...........................27

Configuring Systems Insight Manager for SAN storage validation.............................................27

Configuring Storage Provisioning Manager (SPM)..................................................................27

Setting up SPM for use with logical server storage.............................................................28

Configuring Extensible Server Adapter (ESA).........................................................................29

Configuring Operations Orchestration credentials in ESA....................................................29

2 Managing fluid cross-technology logical servers...........................................31

Restrictions on using cross-technology logical servers...................................................................31

Integrity VM and HP-UX cross-technology logical servers..............................................................31

Installing HP-UX portable Image...........................................................................................33

Turning on HP-UX portable image in the OS..........................................................................33

Powering off HP-UX............................................................................................................33

Network setup...................................................................................................................33

SAN fabric setup...............................................................................................................34

Setting up SAN fabrics on the VM Host ...............................................................................34

Physical server to physical server SAN fabric setup.................................................................34

HP Matrix OE logical server management storage volume requirements....................................35

Matrix OE logical server management storage LUN format......................................................35

Configuring Integrity VM and HP-UX for cross-technology moves...............................................35

Operations and guidelines..................................................................................................35

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