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manage VMs or vPars, and to monitor and evaluate data and resources at the level of the Virtual
Server Platform (VSP). You can view all of a VSP's VMs or vPars and their assigned resources, and
you can view all resources assigned to a specific virtual partition (machine) or virtual switch. For
example, Integrity Virtual Server Manager provides graphical views of virtual-to-physical network
and storage devices so that you can view I/O data, including resource utilization information.
Integrity Virtual Server Manager obtains information about Integrity VM resources through
Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) providers installed on the VSP and on VMs or vPars
(guest operating systems).
NOTE: The Integrity Virtual Server Manager GUI is available when you install HP Integrity Virtual
Machines (Integrity VM) 6.1 and later. On Integrity VM v4.3 and earlier, the GUI is named Virtual
Machines Manager (VM Manager). Depending on the Integrity VM version installed, Virtual Server
Manager can be used to manage VMs or vPars or both. If the version installed is v4.3PK2 and
earlier, you cannot manage vPars. If version 6.0 is installed, VMs cannot be managed.
Table 1
lists the Integrity VM versions and the features supported in Integrity Virtual Server Manager for
the corresponding Integrity VM versions.
Table 1 Integrity VM versions and Integrity Virtual Server Manager functionality
Integrity Virtual Server Manager Version of Integrity VM or vPar installed
Functions as VM Manager 4.1 Integrity VM v4.2
Integrity VM v4.2.5
Integrity VM v4.3
Integrity VM v4.3PK1
Manages 4.3 service pack features in addition to the
features of Virtual Machines Manager 4.1. Integrity VM v4.3PK2
Supports HP Virtual Partitions 6.0. Manages vPars on the
version of HP-UX on which the Virtual Server Manager is
installed. vPars v6.0
Integrity Virtual Server Manager 6.1 manages virtual
machines and virtual partitions. HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM 6.1
Virtual machines and virtual partitions coexist. HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM 6.2
Integrity Virtual Server Manager is available as a standalone product (the VMMGR bundle) that is
installed on a VSP and accessed through the HP System Management Homepage ( HP SMH), or
as a component provided with HP Matrix Operating Environment for HP-UX (the VSEMgmt bundle),
the latter which is installed with HP Systems Insight Manager on a central management server
(CMS). As a component of HP Matrix Operating Environment for HP-UX, Integrity Virtual Server
Manager seamlessly-integrates with other Matrix Operating Environment components.
You can access Integrity Virtual Server Manager from a browser, using any of the two web-based
software components (depending on the bundle installed):
•
HP System Management Homepage (HP SMH)
Integrity Virtual Server Manager is installed separately on any given VSP to manage that
Integrity VSP and its VMs or vPars. You access Integrity Virtual Server Manager from a browser
that can connect over the network to that VSP.
Figure 1 shows how Integrity Virtual Server
Manager is configured and used with HP SMH. This configuration is supported on HP-UX 11i
v3 and 11i v2.
8 Introduction