HP Integrity Virtual Machines Manager 4.3 User Guide

To determine the version of VM Manager currently installed, enter the following command:
#/usr/sbin/swlist VMMGR
NOTE: Beginning with the HP-UX 11i v3 March 2009 Operating Environment Update Release
(OEUR), you can optionally install VM Manager on HP SMH as part of the Matrix OE or DC-OE.
Licensing requirements
The licensing requirements for VM Manager on HP Systems Insight Manager and on HP SMH
include the following:
• On HP Systems Insight Manager, VM Manager is included with Matrix Operating Environment
for HP-UX and is installed when Matrix OE is installed. To make VM Manager operational,
you must have a valid license installed for at least one other component of Matrix Operating
Environment for HP-UX (for example, HP Matrix OE visualization) and one license installed
for Integrity VM on at least one host.
You cannot access the functionality in VM Manager unless you have a license for Integrity
VM and have Integrity VM installed on at least one system to be managed through your
licensed Matrix Operating Environment for HP-UX components.
• On HP SMH, VM Manager is installed separately on a VM Host. You must have a license
for Integrity VM and have Integrity VM installed on that VM Host. A separate license for VM
Manager is not required.
For information about licensing, see the readme file in either the /opt/vse/src directory (HP
Systems Insight Manager) or the /opt/vmmgr/src directory (HP SMH).
You must purchase licenses for any software you run in a virtual machine, including the HP-UX
operating system and any HP or third-party layered software. You can purchase the licenses for
HP software under the HP Virtualization Licensing program. For more information, contact your
HP representative.
Setting security credentials
To display the full range of data about each virtual machine in VM Manager, you must have
WBEM-recognized credentials for each virtual machine. A user name and password are required
to collect resource utilization and other data, such as the status of the installed operating system.
This data is available only from a WBEM provider on the VM Host or virtual machine. The WBEM
providers are the tools used to gather data about the virtual machine and the VM Host. The user
interface uses this information to show various kinds of system status.
You can set credentials by specifying a default user name and password combination for any or
all virtual machines. You can also override the default user name or password on a case-by-case
basis.
NOTE:
• For a given virtual machine, if no user name or password is specified, the default is used.
• If a password is specified but a user name is not, the default user name is used with the
password override. This allows a system administrator to use the same user name but different
passwords for each virtual machine.
When running VM Manager with Matrix Operating Environment for HP-UX, Systems Insight Manager
is responsible for managing the credentials needed for using WBEM providers on the VM Host
and on virtual machines. When running VM Manager under HP SMH, HP SMH manages credentials
and access for the VM Host on which HP SMH is running; credentials for each virtual machine are
managed by VM Manager.
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