HP Integrity Virtual Machines Manager 4.1 Software: User Guide

resources, and you can view all resources assigned to a specific virtual machine or virtual switch.
For example, VM Manager provides graphical views of virtual-to-physical network and storage
devices so that you can view I/O data, including resource utilization information. VM Manager
obtains information about Integrity VM resources through Web-Based Enterprise Management
(WBEM) providers installed on the VM Host and on virtual machines (guest OSes).
NOTE: Features available from VM Manager may depend on the version of Integrity VM on
the VM Host. New VM Manager features described in this document that depend on features
introduced with version 4.1 of Integrity VM are not available when managing a VM Host that
runs an earlier version of Integrity VM.
Version 4.1 of VM Manager supports those features of HP Integrity Virtual Machines version
4.1 that are documented in this manual. VM Manager version 4.1 is compatible with HP Integrity
Virtual Machines version 4.2 but does not support new features provided by that version of the
product.
VM Manager is available as a standalone product (the VMMGR bundle) that is installed on a VM
Host and accessed through the HP System Management Homepage ( HP SMH), or as a component
provided with HP Insight Dynamics - VSE for Integrity (the VSEMgmt bundle), the latter which
is installed with HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) on a central management server (CMS).
As a component of HP Insight Dynamics - VSE for Integrity, VM Manager seamlessly-integrates
with other Insight Dynamics components.
You can access VM Manager from a browser, using either of two web-based software components
(depending on the bundle installed):
• HP System Management Homepage (HP SMH)
VM Manager is installed separately on any given VM Host to manage that Integrity VM
Host and its virtual machines. You access VM Manager from a browser that can connect
over the network to that VM Host. Figure 1-1 shows how VM Manager is configured and
used with HP SMH. This configuration is supported on HP-UX v3 and v2.
8 Introduction