HP Virtualization Manager and HP Capacity Advisor: an introduction

Virtualization Manager Tour
This section provides a high-level tour of Virtualization Manager. Since Virtualization Manager
is tightly integrated with HP SIM, the first portion of the tour will cover several fundamental fea-
tures of HP SIM. Knowledge of these HP SIM features will help you implement and effectively
use Virtualization Manager. The discussion below describes configuring the automated system
discovery mechanism, creating custom system lists, and defining user-based security authoriza-
tions. Following the HP SIM tour, a tour of Virtualization Manager is provided.
HP Systems Insight Manager Tour
The VSE management suite’s integration with HP Systems Insight Manager allows many fea-
tures in HP SIM to be used from within Virtualization Manager. The screen shown in Figure
17-3 is the HP SIM home page. From this page, many properties, actions, and tasks are available.
The upper-left-hand pane is the system status area; it contains counters for events received from
the management domain. This status pane shows the events that haven’t been cleared and pro-
vides direct access to the interface where the events can be viewed and addressed. Below the Sys-
tem Status pane is the System Lists. The hierarchy contained in the System Lists pane is one of
the primary system navigation mechanisms in HP SIM and Virtualization Manager. Like file ex-
plorers, the hierarchy can be expanded until the appropriate collection of systems is found. HP
SIM is shipped with a standard hierarchy of system lists, and the lists can be customized based
on the requirements of the system administrators. In addition, private lists can be created that
The HP Virtual Server Environment
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Managed System A
HP Systems Insight Manager CMS
VSE Management
Software GUI
WBEM Server
VSE WBEM
Providers
VSE Agents
SSH Server
VSE Commands
SSH & WBEM
Clients
VSE Management
Software CMS Daemons
Figure 17-2 Architecture of HP Systems Insight
Manager and VSE Managed Systems