Operating Environment Software Instruction Manual

Viewing VM templates with data disks
VM templates that have data disks defined appear on the infrastructure orchestration console
Software tab and can be used in infrastructure orchestration templates. If a VMware or Hyper-V
VM template is selected on the Software tab, and that VM template has more than one data disk,
a pie chart is displayed. The pie chart shows the relative sizes of the disk definitions in the VM
template.
The following example shows the pie chart for a VMware template named Linux5DiskTemplate,
which contains six VM data disks.
This information is also shown in the VM Template Disks tab in the infrastructure orchestration
designer Configure Virtual Storage screen, and in the Details pane of the infrastructure orchestration
console Services tab.
In a template in infrastructure orchestration designer, the notation boot+ is used to show that the
disk includes one or more data disks.
Hyper-V virtual machine management templates
A Hyper-V VM template is not automatically discovered. Hyper-V templates must be imported into
HP Insight Control virtual machine management before they appear in IO on the Software tab as
VM templates.
Matrix infrastructure orchestration uses a Hyper-V virtual machine as the source material for a
Hyper-V virtual machine management template without any additional steps. However, to provision
recoverable logical servers, deploy the Hyper-V virtual machine host in a Windows cluster.
When using Hyper-V, do not use a Hyper-V virtual machine management template created from
a virtual machine with Snapshot. VM templates created from a virtual machine with Snapshot do
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