HP Integrity Virtual Machines Manager 4.1 Software: User Guide

automated workload management policies across multiple servers, and provides
centralized monitoring and reporting and improved server utilization to assist in meeting
your service level objectives. Using VM Manager with Insight Dynamics - VSE for
Integrity, you can create, view, and modify gWLM policies for virtual machines. For
more information, see “Using the Policy menu” (page 84).
— HP Insight Capacity Advisor software is capacity analysis and planning software that
allows you to optimize the workloads across Insight Dynamics - VSE for Integrity for
the highest utilization of server resources. From VM Manager, you can cause Capacity
Advisor to collect and display historical data for a VM Host or selected virtual machines.
Certain VM Manager views include utilization meters (bar graphs) that display current
utilization data for a resource; you can click the meter to view a screen that provides
more detailed historical data. (These meters are visible when using VM Manager with
HP SMH, but you cannot click them to obtain a Capacity Advisor report.) For more
information about using VM Manager to collect and view utilization data, see Chapter 7
(page 111). For more information about accessing Capacity Advisor through VM Manager,
see “Using the Tools menu” (page 76) and “Using the View menu” (page 82).
Other Insight Dynamics - VSE for Integrity components include:
— Application Discovery
— HP Instant Capacity Manager
— Partition Manager
— WBEM providers (which include the VM Provider and the Utilization Provider, as
described in “System and software requirements” (page 13)) and other agents
For more information about Insight Dynamics concepts and terminology, including a
complete list of the components of Insight Dynamics - VSE for Integrity, see the HP Insight
Dynamics 6.0 Getting Started Guide.
Information about HP SMH is available from the following HP SMH website:
http://www.hp.com/go/smh
Information about HP SIM is available from the following HP SIM website:
http://www.hp.com/go/hpsim
VM Manager tasks
Use VM Manager to create and manage Integrity VM virtual machines. To take full advantage
of VM Manager, you can perform the following tasks:
• Create, configure, and control virtual machines and their resources, such as virtual switches
(vswitches), virtual network devices, and virtual storage devices (Chapter 6 (page 87))
• Monitor VM Host and virtual machine operation (Chapter 4 (page 31))
• Modify virtual machine configurations (“Modifying virtual machines” (page 92))
• Migrate virtual machines from host to host (“Migrating virtual machines” (page 100))
• Collect and view utilization data for VM Host, virtual machines, and their resources
(Chapter 7 (page 111))
• Respond to status reports, error messages, and problems concerning virtual machines
(Appendix A (page 125))
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