HP Virtualization Manager and HP Capacity Advisor: an introduction

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Virtualization Manager Overview
Virtualization Manager is a web-based system administration tool that is tightly integrated with
HP SIM. All of the VSE technologies discussed in this book will be supported by Virtualization
Manager. The purpose of Virtualization Manager is to provide a consolidated monitoring and ad-
ministration point for all VSE technologies. Graphical views of system configurations are one of
the primary features of the tools. These views depict the relationships between VSE technologies
such as the nPartitions that contain virtual machines and the virtual partitions that are being man-
aged by Global Workload Manager (gWLM). The views also depict the systems that contain
gWLM PSETS and FSS groups in shared resource domains. In the past, each of these technolo-
gies had a technology-specific user interface. However, Virtualization Manager unites these tech-
nologies under a single administration console for seamless monitoring and management of
VSE technologies.
The HP VSE management software consists of three primary components. The first compo-
nent, Virtualization Manager, provides visualization and configuration capabilities for all of the
VSE technologies. The visualization aspect of this component provides graphical displays of Vir-
tualization Manager’s management domain. The configuration aspect of this component pro-
vides direct access to each of the VSE management tools. For example, the management tool for
Integrity Virtual Machines is seamlessly integrated with Virtualization Manager.
The second primary component of the VSE Management Software is Global Workload Man-
ager, which is discussed in detail in Chapter 19. This component allows policies to be associated
with workloads that in turn provide resource controls to ensure that workloads receive the nec-
essary resources while maximizing hardware utilization.
The third and final component of the VSE Management Software is the Capacity Advisor.
Capacity Advisor is described in detail in Chapter 18. This component enables capacity plan-
ners to analyze historical workload utilization data for the purposes of planning for workload
migrations or new workload introductions. Taken in whole, the three components of the VSE
management suite provide the capabilities necessary to effectively and efficiently manage a Vir-
tual Server Environment.
Within Virtualization Manager four primary views are available. The first is the System view,
which graphically displays the hierarchical layout of the systems in the VSE management domain.
The second is the Workload view, which displays a list of workloads in the management domain.
This view contains only workloads. Systems that are not directly running workloads, such as
VM hosts, are not shown in the Workload view. As another example, if an nPartition complex
contains four nPartitions that are each running workloads, then the System view would display
the complex and the four nPartitions. On the other hand, the Workload view would display only
the four nPartitions because the complex is not running a workload directly. The third view in
Virtualization Manager is the Shared Resource Domain view, which displays the systems and
workloads being managed by gWLM. The final Virtualization Manager view is the view. This
view displays the capacity-planning scenarios that have been created for analysis and planning
purposes.
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