HP Tower Uninterruptible Power System - Manual (Page 118)

Installing on a virtual operating system 118
Installing HPPP on VMware ESXi architecture
This section guides you through the installation and configuration of HPPP on VMware ESXi. Using HPPP
allows continuity of the electrical power supply to your internal power system.
Item Description
1 Virtual Machine
2 Virtual Machine
3 VIMA/vMA machine with HPPP
4 Physical machine with VMware ESXi boot loader
5 UPS with an HP UPS Network Module
Prerequisites
Verify the following applications are installed:
• VMware ESXi Server Machine
• VMware Infrastructure Management Assistant VIMA 1.0 or vSphere Management Assistant (vMA 5.X)
installed as guest
• vSphere Client installed on a different machine for VMware ESXi Server configuration
• HPPP for Linux
• SSH client for installation and configuration
• SCP Client to upload packages to VIMA/vMA
• Tools installed on each Virtual Machine