HP Integrity Virtual Machines Manager 4.1 Software: User Guide

Manager (as indicated in Figure 3-7); clicking the Go back link on any tab that you navigate
to in the same view also returns you to the Virtualization Manager. For more information
about returning to Virtualization Manager from VM Manager (or, if you are using HP SMH,
about returning to the HP SMH Homepage), see “Returning to Virtualization Manager or
the HP SMH Homepage” (page 28).
2
Click a tab to change to another view. All VM Manager tabs are described in Chapter 4
(page 31).
3
Click a menu in the menu bar beneath the tab title. This displays additional information
about the actions you can perform. The VM Manager menu bar is described in Chapter 5
(page 75).
4
Click the top of a column of a table (on or near the title of the column) to change which
column is driving the sort order of the table. Click the arrow in the selected column to toggle
between ascending and descending order. Not all columns can drive the sort order. Hover
your cursor over a column heading to determine whether the column is selectable for sorting;
the cursor (pointer) changes according to the current pointer scheme configured for your
operating system (for example, when you hover over a selectable column, your cursor might
change from an arrow to a hand).
In tables that are sortable, one column has a darker grey background in the column heading
and an ascending or descending arrow in the same area. The dark grey color indicates that
the column is driving the sort order for all rows of data in the table. The arrow indicates
whether the column has been sorted in ascending or descending order. Criteria for the order
may be numeric or alphabetical. In Figure 3-7, the column that drives the sorting order is
the VM Name column, and the column is sorted in ascending order.
5
Click a check box next to an object that you want to act on, then select the action from one
of the VM Manager menus. To perform an action on all the objects listed, select the box at
the top of the check box column (in the header row at the top of the table).
6
Using VM Manager with Insight Dynamics - VSE for Integrity, you can click a utilization
meter to view a snapshot of Capacity Advisor historical data; this feature is not provided
when using VM Manager from HP SMH. For information about using VM Manager to collect
and view utilization data, see Chapter 7 (page 111).
7
Click a link to an object (the object's name forms the link) to move to a view of that object.
For example, click the virtual machine name link shown in Figure 3-7 to access the Virtual
Machine Properties page for that virtual machine.
8
These icons indicate the status of the virtual machine hardware (HW) and its guest operating
system (OS). The icons in the HW column indicate whether the virtual machine is started
(up) or stopped (down). For example, the ) icon indicates a VM is up; the icon indicates
it is down. The same icons in the OS column indicate whether the operating system is running.
In this particular view (the VM Host Virtual Machines tab), if a virtual machine is migrating,
an icon indicates the direction of migration. In the last row of the table, the icon indicates
the virtual machine is migrating to another VM Host. For more information about migration
status icons, see “VM Host Virtual Machines tab” (page 36). The meanings of these and
other status icons are summarized in “Status indicators” (page 126). For more information
on how to migrate virtual machines, see “Migrating virtual machines” (page 100).
Returning to Virtualization Manager or the HP SMH Homepage
With Insight Dynamics, to access Virtualization Manager from a VM Manager view in which
the Go back link currently directs you to another VM Manager view, you can do one of the
following:
• From the Insight Dynamics menu bar (top menu bar), select Tools→Virtualization
Manager.... Alternatively, select the All VSE Resources link in the left-hand navigation
pane (System and Event Collections→Systems→Shared→Systems by Type→All VSE
Resources). To access the top menu bar or left-hand navigation pane, your VM Manager
28 Accessing and Navigating VM Manager