HP Integrity Virtual Machines Manager 4.1 Software: User Guide

4 Using VM Manager views and tabs
VM Manager provides three basic views, each with several tabs, as described in the following
sections.
You can print any of the VM Host or virtual machine tabs by clicking View Printer-friendly
beneath the VM Manager menu bar, on the left side of the page. This redisplays the tab in a
format suitable for printing. To print the tab, click Print. To switch back, click View Normal.
You can update the data on certain pages by clicking Refresh Data beneath the VM Manager
menu bar, on the right side of the page. In general, VM Manager tabbed views are refreshed
automatically every five minutes. An indicator on these visualization pages notifies you when
the data was last refreshed. VM Manager screens that display configuration data are updated
instantaneously when you use VM Manager to change the related configuration parameters.
However, when changes to the virtual machine I/O configuration are made using tools other
than VM Manager (such as adding or removing I/O devices by using the VM Host command
line), the updated configuration data is not shown until the screen is refreshed. Some dialog
screens, such as the Create Virtual Machine wizard Add Storage Device and the Modify→Add
Storage Device to Virtual Machine ... screens, include a Refresh Data link that you can use to
manually refresh data.
NOTE: The figures in this chapter and in the remainder of the manual display views seen from
Insight Dynamics. Views in HP SMH might differ slightly. Differences are noted. In addition,
the examples display maximized window views to give more focus to the VM Manager window
(eliminating the Insight Dynamics system status pane available on the left of the page and the
HP SIM/Insight Dynamics header and menu bar on the top of the page). Select the maximized
view by clicking Maximize in the top right corner of the page. You can see the Maximize link in
Figure 3-3 (page 23). To return to the original view, click Restore Size in the top right corner
of the maximized page. The maximize feature is not provided by HP SMH but is not needed;
HP SMH provides a full-window VM Manager view.
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