HP Insight Control Software for Linux - Manual (Page 3)

Contents
1 Introduction...............................................................................................7
Overview................................................................................................................................7
Infrastructure............................................................................................................................7
Systems Insight Manager console integration................................................................................7
Agentless management.............................................................................................................9
Setting the correct host name length............................................................................................9
2 Key concepts...........................................................................................11
Heterogeneous environment.....................................................................................................11
Virtual machine......................................................................................................................11
Virtual machine host...............................................................................................................11
Virtual machine guest..............................................................................................................11
Handling prefailure alerts........................................................................................................11
3 Initial setup..............................................................................................12
Licensing...............................................................................................................................12
Licensing VMM through the HP Insight Control License Manager..............................................12
Licensing standalone VMM.................................................................................................12
Adding standalone licenses.................................................................................................12
Applying standalone licenses..............................................................................................12
Configuring...........................................................................................................................13
Configuring WMI Mapper proxy server settings for Microsoft Hyper-V server.............................13
Configuring VMM on a Microsoft Cluster Server....................................................................13
Updating the HP SIM certificate on CMS..............................................................................14
Registering and unregistering...................................................................................................14
Registering virtual machine hosts..........................................................................................14
Methods of registering virtual machine hosts.....................................................................14
Registering virtual machine hosts by using the Configure or Repair Agents tool......................14
Registering virtual machine hosts by using the VMM tool....................................................14
Manually registering virtual machine hosts........................................................................14
Unregistering virtual machine hosts......................................................................................15
Manually unregistering virtual machine hosts.........................................................................15
4 Using Insight Control virtual machine management.......................................16
Insight Control virtual machine management interface overview....................................................16
Using Insight Control virtual machine management controls and tools............................................16
Configuring the polling frequency for virtual machine status checks...............................................18
Creating a CriticalVmHost collection.........................................................................................18
VMware ESX Server Guest System page....................................................................................19
Performance information..........................................................................................................20
Performance color codes.........................................................................................................20
Multisystem aware tools available.............................................................................................20
5 Managing virtual machines.......................................................................21
Making a backup of the virtual machine management database ..................................................21
Task: VMM security properties .................................................................................................21
Enabling certificate validation and CRL validation..................................................................23
Logging VMM logs into Windows NT Events..............................................................................23
Handling prefailure events.......................................................................................................24
Prerequisites......................................................................................................................24
Handling automatic prefailure events....................................................................................25
Handling automatic prefailure events by using the vCenter Server DRS cluster enabled in the
vCenter Server...................................................................................................................25
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