Managing Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V with HP Insight Software, integration note, 4th edition

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Managing Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 with

HP Insight Management

Integration note, 4th Edition

Introduction ......................................................................................................................................... 2

Overview ............................................................................................................................................ 2

Comparing Insight Management software Hyper-V R2 and VMware ESX management ................................ 2

How you can use Insight Management software with Hyper-V R2 .............................................................. 4

Identifying and monitoring VMs ......................................................................................................... 4

Viewing and monitoring the cluster .................................................................................................... 5

Recovering virtual machines .............................................................................................................. 6

Moving virtual machines ................................................................................................................... 6

Matrix capacity planning .................................................................................................................. 6

Requesting resources using a self-service portal .................................................................................... 6

Planning for Using Insight Management and Matrix OE software with Hyper-V R2 ...................................... 7

Disk and memory considerations ........................................................................................................ 7

Cluster discovery and management with HP SIM .................................................................................. 7

Required patches for a Hyper-V R2 host server .................................................................................... 8

Upgrading QLogic HBA drivers for Hyper-V R2 quick/live migration ...................................................... 8

CMS hardware requirements for running Insight Management software .................................................. 9

NIC teaming with Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V .................................................................................. 9

Conclusion .......................................................................................................................................... 9

For more information .......................................................................................................................... 10

Summary of content (10 pages)

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Managing Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 with HP Insight Management Integration note, 4th Edition Introduction ......................................................................................................................................... 2 Overview ............................................................................................................................................ 2 Comparing Insight Management software Hyper-V R2 and VMware ESX management ................................
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Introduction If your IT role includes managing physical and virtual servers or utilizing multiple hypervisor vendors you need the ability to manage from a single console. This technology brief defines the products in the HP Insight Management family that let you manage Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2, a hypervisor-based virtualization platform that provisions and manages virtual server workloads. This paper also discusses typical use cases and installation considerations.
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Function Hyper-V R2 VMware ESX Physical-to-virtual migrations Yes Yes Virtual-to-ProLiant migrations Yes Yes Virtual-to-virtual migrations Yes Yes Insight Control server migration: Matrix Operating Environment – Logical Servers: Copy move Yes Yes Quick move Yes Not applicable SAN move Yes, requires a Hyper-V R2 Cluster Shared Volume (CSV) Cluster Yes Live move Yes, requires a Hyper-V R2 CSV Cluster Yes Matrix Operating Environment—Matrix capacity planning: Collect and view historica
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How you can use Insight Management software with Hyper-V R2 The following sections describe usage scenarios for Insight Management software. Identifying and monitoring VMs HP SIM unifies physical and virtual server management into one central application. As shown in Figure 2, HP SIM displays the health status and basic identity information for an individual Hyper-V R2 VM.
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Viewing and monitoring the cluster The Matrix OE plugs into the HP SIM, which allows you to manage physical and virtual environments. The GUI of the Matrix Operating Environment uses color, location, and icons to organize servers into a display that identifies either systems in the same cluster or virtual machines running the same host. You can group all Hyper-V R2 hosts on one screen or list them with other virtualization hosts and servers.
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Recovering virtual machines HP Matrix Operating Environment recovery management provides recovery of physical and virtual logical server environments. Matrix recovery management can transfer workloads to a recovery site located as far as a continent away. It integrates the replication capabilities of HP storage environments to ensure that application data is properly replicated at the recovery location within minutes.
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As an example, Matrix infrastructure orchestration can automatically provision authorized test and development templates. They can request resources through a self-service portal and its standard catalog of infrastructure services. After making their requests, they can use the self-service portal to track the status of resource requests from approval through the provisioning process. IT administrators no longer need to respond to frequent questions on the status of resource requests.
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SIM, you should not discover any other cluster services by name or IP address (a file or print server running on the cluster, for example). Required patches for a Hyper-V R2 host server After installing the following Microsoft updates, Insight Management software can manage Hyper-V R2 hosts on Windows Server 2008 SP2 and Windows Server 2008 R2, as well as Hyper-V Server SP2: • kb974605: Fixes memory leak in Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 SP2 resulting in improper Hyper-V systems management.
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CMS hardware requirements for running Insight Management software For detailed information about CMS hardware requirements for running Insight Management software, refer to the HP Insight Management Support Matrix. Go to http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c02246277/c02246277.pdf. NIC teaming with Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V HP ProLiant Network Teaming Software lets your ProLiant systems running Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V take advantage of NIC teaming technology.
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For more information Visit the URLs listed below if you need additional information. Resource description Web address HP Insight Management http://www.hp.com/go/insightmanagement HP Systems Insight Manager www.hp.com/go/hpsim HP Insight Control www.hp.com/go/insightcontrol HP Matrix Operating Environment www.hp.com/go/matrix Using HP ProLiant Network Teaming Software with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V or with Microsoft Window Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V http://h20000.www2.hp.