HP Matrix Operating Environment 7.0 Getting Started Guide Abstract This document provides an overview of HP Matrix Operating Environment. It is intended to be used by system administrators and other technical professionals involved with data center operations, administration and planning.
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Contents 1 Introduction to HP Matrix Operating Environment............................................5 Components of HP Matrix Operating Environment.........................................................................5 HP Matrix OE visualization....................................................................................................6 HP Matrix OE logical server management...............................................................................6 HP Capacity Advisor......................
Automatically displaying Matrix OE visualization ..............................................................31 4 Troubleshooting .......................................................................................32 Memory and other system requirements.....................................................................................32 Insight managed system setup wizard........................................................................................32 Diagnose menu actions..................
1 Introduction to HP Matrix Operating Environment This document provides an overview of HP Matrix Operating Environment. • Chapter 1 describes the product features and the available configurations. • Chapter 2 (page 15) describes the licensing model and license management procedures. • Chapter 3 (page 20) describes initial setup steps to get started with Matrix OE.
of included products, and documentation roadmap, see HP Insight Management Getting Started Guide. • Matrix OE can be installed on the following types of CMS running HP-UX: ◦ HP Integrity server ◦ HP Integrity server blade ◦ virtual machine running under HP Integrity Virtual Machines For installation on a CMS running HP-UX, see HP Matrix Operating Environment for HP-UX Installation and Configuration Guide. The following sections summarize the major software components of Matrix OE.
Logical server management allows you to perform tasks such as the following: • Populate an enclosure • Load-balance servers • Evacuate servers, for routine maintenance or in case of disaster NOTE: Logical server management is only supported on a CMS running Microsoft Windows. For more information about managing logical servers, see the HP Matrix Operating Environment Logical Server Management User Guide, available at http://www.hp.com/go/matrixoe/docs.
data to help you plan the consolidation of existing systems, without requiring a full Matrix OE license for those systems. For more information, see “Data collection and the HP Capacity Advisor Consolidation software” in the HP Capacity Advisor User Guide.
HP Storage Provisioning Manager HP Storage Provisioning Manager (SPM) is a software tool that provides a service-centric management interface to storage, allowing storage requests to be fulfilled with available storage services from a storage catalog. It securely automates storage management tasks alongside the Matrix OE visualization software.
You can get to Instant Capacity Manager in either of the following ways: • From the Matrix OE Visualization tab, click the Instant Capacity technology link associated with any managed system that has Instant Capacity components, TiCAP capacity, or is a member of a GiCAP group. • Select Tools→Instant Capacity Manager from the Matrix OE visualization menu bar. For more information about Instant Capacity software, see the Instant Capacity Manager help.
IMPORTANT: This table is a summary. Specific supported hardware and software configurations are provided in the HP Insight Management Support Matrix , which is available at http:// www.hp.com/go/matrixoe/docs.
Table 1 Matrix OE features on Windows CMS Feature Managed systems supported Visualize and monitor physical and virtual resources and workloads using Matrix OE visualization • HP ProLiant servers running Microsoft Windows or Linux • HP BladeSystem c-Class ProLiant server blades running Microsoft Windows or Linux • Virtual machines and VM Hosts running under VMware ESX, VMware ESXi, or Microsoft Hyper-V on HP ProLiant and supported non-HP servers • Selected non-HP servers running Microsoft Windows or Linux
Table 1 Matrix OE features on Windows CMS (continued) Feature Managed systems supported • Virtual machines running Microsoft Windows under VMware ESX, VMware ESXi, or Microsoft Hyper-V on HP ProLiant and supported non-HP servers Identify and monitor running applications and processes using Application Discovery • HP Integrity servers running HP-UX or Integrity Linux • HP Integrity server blades running HP-UX or Integrity Linux • Virtual machines running under Integrity Virtual Machines • Virtual partitio
Table 2 Matrix OE Features on an HP-UX CMS Feature Managed systems supported Visualize and monitor physical and virtual resources and workloads using HP Matrix OE visualization • HP Integrity servers running HP-UX, Integrity Linux, or Microsoft Windows for Integrity • HP Integrity server blades running HP-UX, Integrity Linux, or Microsoft Windows for Integrity • Virtual machines running under Integrity Virtual Machines Manager • Virtual partitions running under a vPars monitor Perform capacity analysis
2 License management This chapter describes the licensing model, the types of licenses available for Matrix Operating Environment, and how to add and apply licenses. The tables in the following sections summarize the hardware platforms and operating systems supported for each Matrix OE license. For detailed hardware and software configurations supported by Matrix OE, see the HP Insight Management Support Matrix , available at http://www.hp.com/go/insightmanagement/docs.
Manager License Manager. For information about the managed system setup wizard, see the online help for the wizard. For information about vselicense, see the Command Reference. • Trial licenses for the HP Matrix Operating Environment for 10 managed systems can be obtained by registering with HP. To obtain these trial licenses, please contact your HP sales representative, your HP services representative, or your authorized HP reseller.
HP Integrity and HP 9000 servers and Integrity server blades License Name Licensed Products HP Matrix Operating Environment • HP Matrix OE visualization for HP-UX • HP Capacity Advisor Supported OS • HP-UX • HP Global Workload Manager (gWLM) • HP Insight Control virtual machine management HP Matrix OE visualization • HP Matrix OE visualization • HP-UX • HP Insight Control virtual machine management • Microsoft Windows for HP Integrity • Linux for HP Integrity HP Capacity Advisor • HP Matrix OE vis
HP Insight Capacity Advisor Consolidation software The HP Capacity Advisor Consolidation software license allows you to collect and analyze data from systems that are planned to be consolidated. This license is only needed on managed systems that do not have a license for Capacity Advisor or Matrix OE.
Starting the License Manager To start License Manager, select Deploy→License Manager... from the top menu bar. This menu selection will only be available if you have administrative rights on the CMS. Online help is available to guide you through the use of License Manager. The License Manager lists all the available license types from which you can choose to deploy.
3 Getting Started Installing the software This document does not cover installation of the software or upgrade from previous versions of the software. For installation and upgrade on a CMS running Microsoft Windows, see HP Insight Management 7.0 Preinstallation Worksheet, HP Insight Management 7.0 Quick Installation Guide, and HP Insight Management 7.0 Installation and Configuration Guide. For installation and upgrade on a CMS running HP-UX, see HP Matrix Operating Environment for HP-UX 7.
Configuring user authorizations Users must be authorized in Systems Insight Manager to use Matrix OE tools and features. Information about Matrix OE user authorizations is available in the Matrix Operating Environment online help, with additional information provided in the help of Matrix OE components where needed.
Procedure 3 Windows CMS: Starting the HP Capacity Advisor Data Collection Service 1. 2. Select Start→Administrative Tools→Services. In the Name column, look for “HP Capacity Advisor Data Service”. Right-click on this name and select Start from the menu. Procedure 4 HP-UX CMS: Stopping the HP Capacity Advisor Data Collection Service • From the command line as root, run /sbin/init.
To learn more about how to use event collections, click the button to read “Navigating the event table view page” in the HP Systems Insight Manager Help. To learn more about Capacity Advisor functions, see the HP Capacity Advisor User Guide. Removing unneeded agent software If you have upgraded from a previous installation of Insight Dynamics software or the VSE Management Software, there may be agents installed on some of your managed systems that are no longer needed.
Using Matrix OE visualization Matrix OE visualization provides features that let you visualize and manage physical and virtual servers discovered and licensed for use within the Matrix Operating Environment.
• From the Systems Insight Manager System and Event Collections list in the left-hand navigation area, expand the All VSE Resources collection by clicking its icon, then choose a subset such as nPartitions. • Create a custom Systems Insight Manager collection whose default view is set to “VSE”. Select this collection to start Matrix OE visualization. This is described in more detail in Customizing Systems Insight Manager Collections and Home Page.
NOTE: Menu selections vary between the Matrix OE visualization tabs (Visualization tab and Workload tab) and the tabs that take you outside the Matrix OE visualization (i.e., the Shared Resource Domain tab and Planning tab). The page title indicates the management application for the selected tab, for example, Matrix OE visualization or Planning. Menu selections are disabled if any of the following circumstances exist: • A required selection has not been made. For example, Modify→Workload Definition...
Table 4 Matrix OE visualization Tools menu (continued) Menu selection Description Process Resource Manager Control the amount of computing resources that processes use during peak system load. Process Resource Manager is available on HP-UX only. → Monitor PRM Groups → Configure PRM Groups Update System Workloads Replace all of the monitored workload definitions on the selected managed system. Table 5 Matrix OE visualization Create menu Menu selection Description Shared Resource Domain...
Table 8 Matrix OE visualization Configure menu (continued) Menu selection Description Calibrate Power (All Selected Systems)... Calibrate power for selected systems managed by Matrix OE. Edit Network and Disk I/O Capacity... Set desired capacity for network and disk I/O bandwidth for selected systems. Agentless Data Collection... → List Agentless Systems View systems with agentless data collection or use advanced options .
Figure 1 Matrix OE visualization tool bar options 1 2 The drop-down menu allows you to select different ways of visualizing your enterprise. The default view is the “Physical and Virtual” view, which shows all physical and virtual servers and the greatest number of nodes. You can select alternate views for server blades, logical servers, ServiceGuard clusters, or virtual machines; or show systems and events.
6 because the view is updated automatically as new data becomes available. However, you might use the Refresh button to reattempt gathering utilization data for all items to ensure the view is showing the latest information. Refreshing the view updates all containers and relationships, resource utilization data, authentication credentials (WBEM) from HP Systems Insight Manager, and workload information from Global Workload Manager.
4. 5. Specify the systems or the attributes of systems to be included in the collection and click Save As Collection. Specify the collection name and its location in the Systems tree, then click OK. NOTE: Non-administrators can only save collections under the Private collection, whereas administrators can save them anywhere. Any collections intended for use with the default collection preference must be saved directly under the All VSE Resources collection. 6. 7.
4 Troubleshooting This chapter describes some of the tools and procedures that can be used to troubleshoot problems in Matrix Operating Environment. Additional troubleshooting information can be found in the user guides listed in “Using Matrix OE” (page 37). For information about known issues and workarounds in this release, see the HP Matrix Operating Environment 7.0 Release Notes.
3. 4. For each check performed by this task, one of the following status indicators is displayed: PASS No configuration problem was found FAIL A serious configuration problem was found. You must resolve the problem for correct operation of Matrix Operating Environment. WARN A configuration problem was found. The problem will not necessarily prevent correct operation of Matrix Operating Environment, but it may limit or restrict operation of some features.
5. 6. For each check performed by this task, one of the following status indicators is displayed: PASS No configuration problem was found FAIL A serious configuration problem was found. You must resolve the problem for correct operation of Matrix OE. WARN A configuration problem was found. The problem will not necessarily prevent correct operation of Matrix OE, but it may limit or restrict operation of some features. N/A Not Applicable: the check does not apply to this type of system.
5. 6. For each check performed by this task, one of the following status indicators is displayed: PASS No configuration problem was found FAIL A serious configuration problem was found. You must resolve the problem for correct operation of Matrix OE. WARN A configuration problem was found. The problem will not necessarily prevent correct operation of Matrix OE, but it may limit or restrict operation of some features. N/A Not Applicable: the check does not apply to this type of system.
5 Support and other resources Contacting HP To obtain product support, contact your HP Support Representative, your HP Services Representative, or your authorized HP reseller. For more information about support services, visit http:// www.hp.com/go/support. To send comments and suggestions regarding the documentation for Matrix OE, use the following e-mail address: docsfeedback@hp.com. HP does not provide product support through the documentation feedback e-mail address.
Installation and configuration: HP-UX CMS Topic Document Requirements, feature support, compatibility • HP Insight Management Support Matrix Release notes • HP Matrix Operating Environment Release Notes Installation and configuration • HP Matrix Operating Environment for HP-UX Installation and Configuration Guide Using Matrix OE Topic Document Getting started • HP Matrix Operating Environment Getting Started Guide • HP Insight Management Getting Started Guide • HP Insight Control Getting Started
HP Matrix Operating Environment infrastructure orchestration http://www.hp.com/go/matrixoe HP Matrix Operating Environment recovery management http://www.hp.com/go/matrixoe HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager http://www.hp.com/go/vcem/ HP Systems Insight Manager http://www.hp.com/go/insightmanagement/sim/ HP CloudSystem Matrix http://www.hp.
Reference pages installed with agent software on managed systems Reference page Description agent_config(1M) Control Application Discovery certificates from the managed node amgrd(1M) Control or modify the operation of the Application Discovery agent gwlmagent(1M) Global Workload Manager (gWLM) agent gwlmplace(1M) Place a process in a gWLM workload gwlmsend(1M) Send metric data to gWLM for use in a custom policy gwlmsslconfig(1M) gwlmimportkey(1M) gwlmexportkey(1M) Secure network communications
Selected Systems Insight Manager reference pages Reference page Description mxagentconfig(1M) Configure the agent to work with a CMS mxauth(1M) Add, remove or list authorizations in Systems Insight Manager mxglobalsettings(1M) Manage global settings in Systems Insight Manager mxinitconfig(1M) Perform initial configuration of the server mxnode(1M) Add, modify, identify, remove or list nodes in Systems Insight Manager mxstart(1M) Start Systems Insight Manager and the TomCat webserver mxstatus(1M
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vseassist(1M) NAME vseassist -- Help Resolve Matrix OE Configuration Problems SYNOPSIS Path (HP-UX): /opt/vse/bin/vseassist Path (Windows): install-path\bin\vseassist.exe vseassist -a [-q] [ -n nodename | -g collectionname ]... vseassist -c [-q] vseassist { -l | -r } [-q] { -n nodename | -g collectionname }... vseassist -s [-q] -h cms DESCRIPTION The vseassist command performs a number of checks to identify configuration problems in your installation of HP Matrix Operating Environment.
Or, from the Matrix OE user interface, select the managed systems, then from the Diagnose menu, select Troubleshoot Matrix Operating Environment, then select Check Managed Node Configuration. 4. If you are unable to resolve issues with one of your managed systems, you can install or copy vseassist to the managed system and run it from the command line there.
-g collectionname (Group) Specifies the name of a collection of systems known to the CMS. The specified checks will be performed for each of the managed systems in the collection. Multiple -n and -g options can be used to specify multiple systems. Note: System or collection names that include spaces must be enclosed in quotes. Refer to mxquery(1M) for more information about collections under HP SIM. -q (Quiet) No output will be generated on stdout or stderr.
Application Discovery server running...................................................[PASS] File system free space.................................................................[PASS] Java JRE installed.....................................................................[PASS] Virtual Machine Management runnning....................................................[PASS] VMM responsive.........................................................................
FILES Configuration settings, including communication port settings, are read from the following file: HP-UX: /etc/opt/mx/config/globalsettings.props Windows: install-path\config\globalsettings.props Detailed results of the checks performed by vseassist are written to the log file. Examine the log file for recommended steps to resolve any problems found. Note: The log file is not automatically pruned. HP-UX: /var/adm/syslog/vseassist.log Windows: install-path\logs\vseassist.log Linux: /var/log/vseassist.
vselicense(1M) NAME vselicense -- Manage licenses to use (LTUs) on HP Integrity and HP 9000 Systems SYNOPSIS Path (HP-UX): /opt/vse/bin/vselicense Path (Windows): installation-directory\bin\vselicense vselicense { -? | --help } (Show command help) vselicense --usage (Show command syntax) vselicense { -t | --tempLicense } { -n sys | --sys=sys }... (Apply temporary trial licenses) vselicense { -l key | --key=key } { -n sys | --sys=sys }...
Licenses from previous releases of VSE Management Software and licenses included in the HP-UX VSE or DC Operating Environments were installed directly on HP-UX managed systems. A license scan procedure was then used to obtain the license information from the managed systems for use on the CMS. LTUs for managed systems running Linux for HP Integrity and Microsoft Windows for HP Integrity were installed as keys on the CMS.
NOTE: This operation may take a long time to complete. 4. If necessary, correct the number of per-core or per-socket licenses assigned to the systems using vselicense with the -m and -c options, as described above. To migrate and apply unused HP Integrity Linux or HP Integrity Windows LTUs, follow these steps: 1. Execute the following command on the CMS (note that multiple -n sys options can be specified): vselicense -l key -n sys -p prod where key is the license key provided with the LTU product prod.
NOTE: HP Integrity virtual machines are licensed through the VM Host. You cannot specify a virtual machine as the target of a vselicense command. Instead, apply the command to the VM Host system. -p prod|--prod=prod -g|--gwlm -m|--migrate -c count|--count=count -s|--show The product number of the LTU being installed or migrated. For example, T2783AC is the product number for the Virtualization Manager LTU for HP Integrity managed systems running Linux.
DOCUMENT LAST UPDATED January 2012 SEE ALSO Additional information is available in the “License Management” topic of the Matrix OE help, and in the following documents: vseinitconfig(1M), HP Matrix Operating Environment Getting Started Guide, HP Matrix Operating Environment for HP-UX Installation and Configuration Guide, HP Insight Management Installation and Configuration Guide.
Glossary active logical server A logical server that has been bound to both a managed system in HP Systems Insight Manager and a workload, and is bound to specific storage. Active logical servers can be in one of two states: powered on or powered off. An active logical server can be moved from one location to another and its characteristics can be modified. agent A program that regularly gathers information or performs some other service without the user's immediate presence.
capacity is needed, you pay the remainder of the regular price for the usage rights to activate the components. If the regular price for the component is reduced by the time the usage rights are purchased, the remainder price is proportionally reduced, providing additional savings.
resource partition A subset of the resources available to an operating system instance, isolated for use by specific processes. A resource partition has its own process scheduler. CPU resources in the partition may be allocated using Fair-Share Scheduler groups or processor sets. Policies for controlling the allocation of resources to the partition can be set using HP Global Workload Manager. server blades Thin, modular, self-contained computer servers, containing one or more microprocessors and memory.
network interface controllers (NICs), the World Wide Names (WWNs) for all host bus adapters (HBAs), and the SAN boot parameters. If the server blade in the server bay is replaced, the configuration and connection profile stays constant. virtual machine A software entity provided by HP Integrity Virtual Machines, VMware ESX, VMware ESXi, or Microsoft Hyper-V.
Index A G agent removing unneeded agents, 23 agentless data collection, 23 configuring credentials, 21 Application Discovery, 9 authorization setting, 18 authorizations, 21 Global Workload Manager, 9 glossary, 52 gWLM see Global Workload Manager C Capacity Advisor, 7 scenario, 7 Capacity Advisor Consolidation Software, 7, 18 capacity planning, 7 Central Management Server see CMS CMS, 5 check CMS configuration, 32 check CMS to managed node configuration, 33 HP-UX CMS installation, 20 memory requirements,
starting, 19 licenses model, 15 Linux agentless data collection, 23 logical server management, 6 M managed system check CMS to managed node configuration, 33 check managed node configuration, 34 supported configuration, 10 troubleshooting, 32 managed system setup wizard, 18, 20, 32 using to apply licenses, 18 manpage, 38 manuals, 36 Matrix OE Configure menu, 28 Create menu, 27 Delete menu, 27 Modify menu, 27 Policy menu, 28 Report menu, 28 tabs, 25 Tools menu, 27 Matrix OE menu bar, 25 Matrix OE visualizat
