Operating Environment Software User Manual

• Profile Move (Virtual Connect Only)
Moves a server connection profile within a BladeSystem enclosure (Virtual Connect Domain
Group).
• Live Move (ESX VM, Hyper-V, and Integrity VM Only)
Also known as Online Move. Moves a running virtual machine, its operating system, and its
applications from one VM Host to another VM Host without an operating system reboot or
application restart. All I/O connections to storage and networks remain active throughout the
move. Initiates VMware VMotion technology from Systems Insight Manager, and requires that
vCenter is installed and running.
• SAN-based Fast Move (ESX VM and Hyper-V Only)
Executes fast logical server moves between dissimilar host hardware.
• Copy Move (ESX VM and Hyper-V VM Only)
Moves a logical server to a target host within a VMM domain that is not connected to a SAN.
The VM Host that the logical server is copied to has a separate Copy Move choice for each
valid datastore
• Quick Move (Hyper-V VM Only)
Saves the state of a running guest virtual machine (memory of original server to disk/shared
storage), moves the storage connectivity from one physical server to another, and then restores
the guest virtual machine onto the second server (disk/shared storage to memory on the new
server). To select Quick Move, you must have checked Enable High Availability when you
created or modified the logical server before it was activated, the data store must be shared
in the MS Cluster, and the virtual machine must be in a cluster node.
• Unlike Move (ESX VM and Virtual Connect Only)
Moves a logical server from physical to virtual systems and virtual to physical systems. For
example, you can move a server with Virtual Connect logical server and a portable operating
system image to a virtual machine.
NOTE: When you are moving a High Availability-enabled Hyper-V virtual machine logical server,
only the Quick Move operation type is available.
Power on and off
The Tools→Logical Servers→Power On... or Tools→Logical Servers→Power Off... menu selections
power on or off a virtual machine or a server blade bay on which a logical server was activated
or moved.
You can verify that a server blade has started by logging into the Onboard Administrator.
Refresh server resources
The Tools→Logical Servers→Refresh... menu selection refreshes the logical server database with
the VM Manager, Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager, Systems Insight Manager logical server
nodes, and storage pool inventories. You might want to refresh if you create or remove inventory,
by performing actions such as:
• Importing a logical server
• Creating or deleting a VM Host
• Creating or deleting an enclosure in a Virtual Connect domain group
• Deleting a logical server mxnode
Refreshing is useful if, for example, you use VM Manager to create a new VM Host, then activate
a logical server. In that case, the new VM Host might not be listed as an available target on the
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