Operating Environment Software User Manual

Deactivate
The Tools→Logical Servers→Deactivate... menu selection removes the association between a logical
server and a system. The storage configuration remains, maintaining the host name, IP address,
and user information on the operating system boot image.
• For servers with Virtual Connect, the blade is shut down and the server profile is disassociated
from the blade. (The server profile is maintained, however, and can be reactivated elsewhere.)
• For virtual machines, the virtual machine is shut down, and the virtual machine definition is
unregistered from the VM Host. (The virtual machine mxnode is not deleted, however, the
system type is set to Unknown and the subtype is cleared, so that the virtual machine is no
longer visible to Matrix OE visualization.) This is expected behavior. Do not delete the virtual
machine mxnode. Deleting the mxnode will result in loss of configuration information such as
credential settings.
Following are other operations that you can perform on a logical server. These operations do not
change the state of the logical server.
Create
The Create→Logical Server... menu selection allows you to define a logical server, which includes
the identity of the logical server, the amount of memory and CPU, and predefined network and
storage configuration.
• Identity
Allows you to specify the name, description, and other identifying characteristics of a logical
server, including:
Portability group Group of physical and/or virtual systems among which
the logical server can move.
Default portability groups are:
◦ Each Virtual Connect domain group
◦ All ESX Virtual Machine Hosts
◦ All Hyper-V Virtual Machine Hosts
◦ All HP Integrity VM Virtual Machine Hosts
NOTE: Default portability groups cannot be modified.
(Optional) User-defined portability groups are:
◦ A single Virtual Connect domain group
◦ A set of ESX Virtual Machine Hosts
◦ A set of Hyper-V Virtual Machine Hosts
◦ A set of HP Integrity VM Virtual Machine Hosts
◦ A set consisting of a single Virtual Connect domain
group and a set of ESX Virtual Machine Hosts
A logical server created in this type of portability
group is a cross-technology logical server.
To create or modify a user-defined portability group,
use the Modify→Logical Servers Portability Groups...
menu selection.
Logical server architecture Architecture type of the system on which you are
creating the logical server. Can be HP ProLiant or HP
Integrity.
10 Managing logical servers