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HP Insight Virtualization Manager 6.3
Software with Logical Server Management
User Guide
Abstract
This document provides an overview of the HP Insight Virtualization Manager software and the logical servers feature. System
administrators can use this document as an introduction to the Virtualization Manager and as a guide to using the software to
visualize and manage systems and workloads in HP Insight Dynamics.
HP Part Number: T8669-90061
Published: April 2011
Edition: 1
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Table of contents
Document Outline
- HP Insight Virtualization Manager 6.3 Software with Logical Server Management User Guide
- Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Starting Virtualization Manager
- 3 Using Virtualization Manager views
- 4 Managing logical servers
- Using logical servers in Virtualization Manager
- Logical servers in visualization perspectives
- Logical server operations
- Authorizations, requirements, and configuration
- Logical server requirements
- Configuring and registering Hyper-V and ESX VM Hosts and VMware vCenter
- Configuring VMware vSphere client settings for browsing data store
- Configuring Systems Insight Manager with Onboard Administrator credentials
- Configuring Systems Insight Manager for SAN storage validation
- Configuring Storage Provisioning Manager (SPM)
- Configuring Extensible Server & Storage Adapter (ESA)
- 5 Managing fluid cross-technology logical servers
- 6 Defining storage for logical servers
- 7 LSMUTIL database utility
- 8 Troubleshooting
- Importing a Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machine with configuration file in default location is not supported
- Recovery after logical server operation failures
- Recovering an inoperable logical server
- Correcting problems powering on a logical server
- Errors accessing single sign-on iLO or Onboard Administrator
- Logical server operations cannot be cancelled
- Do not stop or restart Logical Server Automation service while operations are in progress
- Logical Server Automation service fails to start if TCP layer ports are in use
- Logical Server Automation service may run out of memory on large scale systems
- Error saving storage pool entry after Logical Server Automation service is restarted
- Restart Logical Server Automation service after VMware vCenter failure
- Profile is created but not associated with a logical server when service is stopped during logical server activation
- Use portable WWNs and MAC addresses for Virtual Connect domain groups
- Do not use valid host name as logical server name
- Oversubscribing the number of networks
- Insufficient NICs error when activating or moving logical servers (Virtual Connect Flex-10 support)
- Use caution when renaming or moving a Virtual Connect domain group
- Deactivate or move logical servers before replacing blade
- Unmanaging a logical server using a storage pool entry may result in an inconsistent state
- Unmanaging a logical server leaves WWNs used by VC profile unavailable
- Synchronize clocks on the CMS, managed systems, and VMware vCenter
- Moving the data store of an ESX VM logical server
- VM Host does not appear on move logical server target screen
- Unable to import an Integrity VM logical server
- Failure during virtual machine deletion leaves active but unpowered logical server
- VM Hosts must be in same vCenter for ESX virtual machine logical server moves
- Performing operations on a logical server running as a VM Host
- Moving logical servers when the CMS and vCenter are in different network domains
- XML parsing error if new ESA attributes are not added to serverInfo.xml
- Patch required for proper management of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V systems
- Displaying empty, hidden resource pools
- Problems with meters collecting data
- Search button displays error page
- Navigation tips
- User preferences tips
- Performance tips
- 9 Advanced features
- 10 Support and other resources
- Index