HP Insight Control Virtual Machine Management 6.2 User Guide

4 Using virtual machine management
This chapter provides an overview of server virtualization management using the virtual machine management.
You can perform all virtual machine management operations with either operator or administrator rights.
Insight Control virtual machine management interface overview
Insight Control virtual machine management provides central management and control for virtual machines
hosted on Microsoft Hyper-V server, VMware ESX Server, Citrix XenServer, or Xen on RHEL or SLES.
Insight Control virtual machine management detects virtual machine status changes initiated by other supported
virtualization management consoles. The System Status icons on the Systems Insight Manager System
Page indicate these status changes. To access the System Page, click the system name in the Systems
Insight Manager console. If Microsoft Hyper-V server is used, the Launch SCVMM button appears. If
VMware ESX Server is used, the Launch vCenter button appears.
The left frame of the Systems Insight Manager console displays a node navigational tree. A list of the virtual
machine hosts and their virtual machine guests appears in the Systems→Shared→Systems by Type
directory.
To display all virtual machine hosts and guests managed by virtual machine management in the Systems
Insight Manager console, expand the Systems→Shared→Systems by Type directory in the navigational
tree, and then click Virtual Machine Host -> All Virtual Machine Hosts or Virtual Machines -> All Virtual
Machines.
Using Insight Control virtual machine management controls and tools
You can perform various tasks using virtual machine management controls, available from the Systems Insight
Manager host or virtual machine System Page, as described in the following sections.
NOTE: The time to complete a virtual machine operation that involves file transfers takes longer when
Network Attached Storage (NAS) volumes are used because virtual machine management shares a network
connection with NAS. Be sure separate networks are set up for virtual machine management and NAS.
The following virtual machine management tasks appear on the Systems Insight Manager host or guest
System Page. Use these tasks to start, resume, shut down, stop, pause, reset, or restart licensed virtual
machine guests.
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