HP OneView for VMware vCenter - Manual (Page 50)

3. Click Apply Recommended Actions.
Confirmation screen is displayed which lists all the networking configuration changes that will
be done. Review the changes that will be made.
4. Click Apply to perform the actions.
Once the changes are applied, the final status is shown in the news feed section. To view
progress updates, access the Tasks page under HP Insight Management.
NOTE:
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Host network configuration can fail on hosts having VMs running on them. The status and task
details are shown under tasks for the host. Insight Control for vCenter does not move the VMs
before performing host network configuration. The cluster on which the host resides must be
DRS enabled to handle VM movement automatically, or the VMs must be manually moved
from the host before attempting host network configuration for the host.
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If host network configuration fails after the host is put into maintenance mode, the host remains
in maintenance mode and is not added back into the cluster. If this occurs, view the task details
to determine the cause of the failure and resolve the issue manually (typically a vCenter/host
configuration modification). The host configure operation should then be retried so the host
is configured correctly and added back into the cluster.
Setting a reference host in a cluster
The reference host for a cluster identifies the host whose Virtual Connect/OneView Profile is
considered as the reference configuration when comparing all the hosts in the cluster.
NOTE:
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This feature is available only on the vSphere Web Client.
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Only blade servers are supported as a reference host.
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Only servers having Virtual Connect/HP OneView profile information are supported as a
reference host.
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Ensure that no host network configuration operations are being performed within the cluster
when selecting or changing a reference host.
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If there is no reference host identified for the cluster, then the first host where the recommended
actions are applied would be marked as the reference host for that cluster.
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If the overall status of the reference host is not consistent, the message Reference Host is not
consistent is displayed in a pop-up on mouse-over of the Host Network Configuration status
of other hosts in the cluster.
1. From the vSphere Web Client, for a selected host, click the Networking tab on the Manage
page.
2. Click Set Reference Host to set the selected host as the reference host.
Using the network diagram
Host networking provides an option to display the end-to-end network from the VM to the external
switch on a blade server when Virtual Connect is installed. See
“Virtual Connect Network Diagram”
(page 51) .
To view a network diagram in the vSphere Web Client, click Network Diagram at the bottom of
the Networking portlet, or click Manage
→Networking→Network Diagram.
To view a network diagram in the vSphere Client, click Network Diagram at the bottom of the
Networking portlet, or select Network Diagram from the pull-down navigation list.
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