HP Insight Virtualization Manager 6.3 Software with Logical Server Management User Guide

Contents
1 Introduction...............................................................................................7
Features..................................................................................................................................7
Virtualization Manager tabs..................................................................................................7
Insight Dynamics menus........................................................................................................8
Virtualization Manager toolbar............................................................................................13
Concepts and terminology.......................................................................................................15
2 Starting Virtualization Manager..................................................................19
Starting from Systems Insight Manager......................................................................................19
Switching views and perspectives..............................................................................................20
3 Using Virtualization Manager views............................................................23
Using the visualization view.....................................................................................................23
Purpose of the visualization view..........................................................................................23
Components of the visualization view...................................................................................23
Compartment details.....................................................................................................25
Compartment color definitions........................................................................................27
Technology icons..........................................................................................................28
Using the workload view.........................................................................................................30
Purpose of the workload view..............................................................................................30
Understanding workload types............................................................................................31
Creating monitored workloads........................................................................................32
Viewing and modifying workload definitions.....................................................................33
Updating system workloads............................................................................................33
Components of the workload view.......................................................................................33
4 Managing logical servers..........................................................................37
Using logical servers in Virtualization Manager..........................................................................37
Logical servers in visualization perspectives................................................................................38
Logical server operations.........................................................................................................40
Activate............................................................................................................................40
Deactivate........................................................................................................................40
Create..............................................................................................................................41
Copy................................................................................................................................43
Delete and unmanage........................................................................................................43
Import..............................................................................................................................44
Manage storage pools and tags..........................................................................................44
Manage portability groups..................................................................................................44
Manage target attributes.....................................................................................................45
Modify.............................................................................................................................45
Move...............................................................................................................................45
Moving Virtual Connect logical servers............................................................................46
Servers with Virtual Connect target hosts......................................................................46
Valid target Datastore selection.......................................................................................47
Moving ESX, Hyper-V, and HP Integrity virtual machine logical servers.................................48
Virtual machine target hosts.......................................................................................48
Move operation types....................................................................................................49
Power on and off...............................................................................................................50
Refresh server resources......................................................................................................50
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