HP Global Workload Manager 7.0 User Guide

5 Additional configuration and administration tasks.........................................29
Manually adjusting CPU resources............................................................................................29
Manually adjusting memory resources.......................................................................................30
Setting aside space for historical data.......................................................................................30
Backing up the HP Matrix Operating Environment database.........................................................30
Tips for backup and restore.................................................................................................31
Setting database recovery model.........................................................................................31
Setting gWLM properties.........................................................................................................31
CMS properties ................................................................................................................31
Agent properties................................................................................................................33
Communications ports........................................................................................................35
Controlling gWLM’s startup behavior........................................................................................35
Automatic restart of gWLM’s managed nodes in SRDs (high availability).......................................36
How the automatic restart works..........................................................................................37
Related events...................................................................................................................37
“Node Failed to Rejoin SRD on Start-up” event..................................................................37
“SRD Communication Issue” and “SRD Reformed with Partial Set of Nodes” events................38
Manually clearing an SRD..................................................................................................38
Clearing an SRD of A.02.50.00.04 (or later) agents..........................................................38
Clearing an SRD of agents of any version.........................................................................38
Nesting partitions...................................................................................................................39
Changing the gWLM resource allocation interval........................................................................39
Changing the interval in HP System Insight Manager..............................................................39
Changing the interval on the command line..........................................................................40
Using gWLM with Hyper-Threading...........................................................................................40
Using gWLM with hosts on multiple LANs..................................................................................40
Creating “Golden Images”......................................................................................................42
Multiple network interface cards...............................................................................................42
Incorrectly configured host name or IP address...........................................................................43
Unable to create new native thread...........................................................................................44
6 Support and other resources......................................................................45
Information to collect before contacting HP.................................................................................45
How to contact HP..................................................................................................................45
Registering for software technical support and update service.......................................................45
How to use your software technical support and update service...............................................45
Warranty information.........................................................................................................46
HP authorized resellers............................................................................................................46
Documentation feedback.........................................................................................................46
Related information.................................................................................................................46
Typographic conventions.........................................................................................................46
A Compatibility with agents..........................................................................47
B Global Workload Manager A.7.0.0* Known issues......................................48
Limitations.............................................................................................................................48
Unpredictable management when removing GiCAP group members.........................................48
Localization behaviors........................................................................................................48
Unable to manage partitions with inactive cells or deconfigured cores......................................48
Unable to build a single shared resource domain...................................................................48
Compatibility with PRM and WLM.......................................................................................49
Rare incompatibility with virtual partitions.............................................................................49
Workloads in gWLM do not follow associated Serviceguard packages.....................................49
Host name aliases are not supported....................................................................................50
Making a configuration change to a large SRD is slow...........................................................50
Events for gWLM CPU migration can affect System Insight Manager CMS performance..............50
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