HP Insight Virtualization Manager with Logical Server Management 6.1 User Guide

• Enable cross-technology moves of logical servers, for example, from a server with Virtual
Connect to an ESX virtual machine.
• Limit the number of servers or hypervisors contained in a portability group. For example,
if the default “All ESX hypervisors” portability group contains a large number of virtual
machines, you can create a portability group that contains a smaller number of ESX virtual
machines within which logical servers can move. This may have the additional benefit of
reducing the number of rejected targets when you move the logical server.
NOTE: In this release, you cannot create a user-defined portability group containing HP Integrity
virtual machine hypervisors. If you import an Integrity VM, the imported logical server is placed
into the default “All Integrity VM hypervisors” portability group.
You select a portability group for a logical server using the Create→Logical Server… menu
selection. The first screen, Create Logical Server Identity, displays a drop-down menu containing
all default and user-defined portability groups, with the exception of the default “All Integrity
VM hypervisors” group.
Figure 5-1 Create logical server identity
You can create a user-defined portability group using the Modify→Logical Server Portability
Groups… menu selection.
Figure 5-2 Modify portability group menu
Select Virtual Connect domain groups or hypervisors to include in the portability group from
the Virtualization Manager Physical and Virtual perspective. If you do not make any selections,
all resources are presented as potential group members.
The name that you select for your user-defined portability group is included in the drop-down
menu of available portability groups on the Create Logical Server Identity screen.
62 Managing fluid cross-technology logical servers