HP XP7 Command View Advanced Edition Administrator Guide (Web Version) (TK981-96004, May 2014)

• When VMware ESX is used as the virtualization software, install a VMware Tools on each
virtual machine.
• Register the virtualization server that runs in the same physical environment in Device Manager.
• For virtual machines running the AIX OS, set the ODMDIR environment variable.
Related topics
• How to set up Device Manager agent: HP XP7 Command View Advanced Edition Installation and
Configuration Guide
Operation workflow for allocating volumes to virtual machines
How to register hosts and allocate volumes differs depending on the HBA configuration.
Configuration in which an HBA is allocated for each virtual machine
Figure 5 Operation workflow for allocating volumes to virtual machines (when allocating an HBA to
each virtual machine)
1. Register each virtual machine whose volume usage you want to manage in Device Manager as
a normal host.
Do not register the virtualization server that runs in the same physical environment in Device
Manager.
2. Allocate the LUN paths of volumes to each virtual machine (WWN), and then make the virtual
machines recognize the volumes as RAW devices.
Note that Device Manager cannot recognize volumes that make up a datastore.
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