Abstract
HP Integrity Virtual Machines Manager 4.3 User Guide
Manufacturing
2 Installing VM Manager
Contents
3 Accessing and Navigating VM Manager
4 Using VM Manager views and tabs
6 Working with virtual machines
5 Using VM Manager menus
7 Collecting and viewing utilization data
4 Contents
8 Viewing logs and version information
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HP Integrity Virtual Machines Manager
1 Introduction
HP Integrity Virtual Machines
HP System Management Homepage HP SMH
Figure 1 VM Manager with HP SMH
10 Introduction
VM Manager tasks
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System and software requirements
2 Installing VM Manager
Installing VM Manager on HP SMH
Installing VM Manager on HP Systems Insight Manager
#/usr/sbin/swlist VMMGR
Setting security credentials
Licensing requirements
16 Installing VM Manager
Setting WBEM credentials in HP Systems Insight Manager
Setting WBEM credentials in HP SMH
Figure 3 HP SMH Set WBEM Credentials page
18 Installing VM Manager
PEGASUSHOME%\cimservercurrent.conf
Trusted certificates
$PEGASUSHOME/cimservercurrent.conf
PEGASUSHOME%\server.pem
file cert.pem \ -keystore /etc/opt/hp/sslshare/parmgr.keystore
Discovering data when setting new WBEM credentials
$ JAVAHOME/bin/keytool -import -alias serverhostname \
Accessing VM Manager from Matrix Operating Environment for HP-UX
3 Accessing and Navigating VM Manager
Figure 5 HP Matrix OE visualization Visualization tab
Accessing VM Manager from HP SMH
Figure 8 HP SMH accessing VM Manager
Navigating VM Manager
Accessing VM Manager help
26 Accessing and Navigating VM Manager
Returning to HP Matrix OE visualization or the HP SMH Homepage
Returning to HP Matrix OE visualization or the HP SMH Homepage
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VM Host view
4 Using VM Manager views and tabs
VM Host General tab
Screen details
Quick reference
Table 1 Online migration status
Quick reference
VM Host Virtual Machines tab
Figure 13 Full-width view of virtual machine information table
Screen details
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36 Using VM Manager views and tabs
VM Host Virtual Switches tab
Quick reference
Screen details
Quick reference
VM Host Network tab
Virtual switch
Network devices
38 Using VM Manager views and tabs
Screen details
Figure 16 Network tab column layout
The bar graphs indicate network throughput, if available
Figure 19 Virtual LAN
The bar graph indicates network throughput, if available
Quick reference
VM Host Storage tab
44 Using VM Manager views and tabs
Storage devices
Description
Storage tab column layout
Screen details
Figure 24 Virtual Storage column
Referring to Figure 25, note the following
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50 Using VM Manager views and tabs
For more information, see “Starting remote console” page
Console tab
For more information, see “Creating remote console” page
Quick reference
Virtual console
Virtual console and remote console
For more information, see “Modifying remote console” page
For more information, see “Delete remote console” page
Remote console
54 Using VM Manager views and tabs
Figure 31 Create remote console
56 Using VM Manager views and tabs
Virtual Machines VM Properties view
Virtual Machines VM Properties view
VM Properties General tab
Figure 35 VM Properties General tab
58 Using VM Manager views and tabs
Quick reference
Screen details
Table 4 Online migration status
Online Migration Phases
Figure 37 Migration alerts
VM Properties Network tab
Quick reference
64 Using VM Manager views and tabs
Quick reference
VM Properties Storage tab
Screen details
Screen details
Virtual Switch Vswitch Properties view
66 Using VM Manager views and tabs
Quick reference
Vswitch Properties General tab
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Vswitch Properties Network tab
Quick reference
Screen details
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Using the Tools menu
5 Using VM Manager menus
“Using the Tools menu” page “Using the Create menu” page
“Using the Modify menu” page “Using the Delete menu” page
“Starting, stopping, and deleting virtual switches” page
“Starting, stopping, and deleting virtual switches” page
“Starting virtual machines” page
“Suspending virtual machines”
“Collecting and viewing utilization
Using the Create menu
data” page
“Collecting and viewing utilization
Using the Modify menu
Using the Delete menu
Using the View menu
Properties view” page
Using the Policy menu
Properties view” page
Manager, Integrity VM, and WBEM Provider versions”
Table 11 VM Manager Policy menu options
Figure 49 VM Manager Policy menu
Creating virtual machines
6 Working with virtual machines
Planning virtual machines
Automatic Memory Reallocation
Creating virtual machines
6. Summary
7. Specify VLAN IDs
84 Working with virtual machines
Modifying virtual machines
Modifying virtual machines
86 Working with virtual machines
Starting virtual machines
Figure 50 Start Virtual Machine page
88 Working with virtual machines
Stopping virtual machines
Figure 51 Stop Virtual Machine page
90 Working with virtual machines
Restarting virtual machines
Deleting virtual machines
Deleting virtual machines
Overview
Migrating virtual machines
Planning requirements and recommendations
Capacity Advisor requirements and recommendations
Serviceguard requirements and recommendations
Starting the Migrate Virtual Machine wizard
Migration status and error notification
Adjusting online migration phase timeout values
Figure 53 Migrate Virtual Machine Step 1 of
Suspending virtual machines
Resuming virtual machines
Moving suspend files
Creating virtual switches
Figure 60 Create Virtual Switch page
102 Working with virtual machines
Deleting network or storage Devices
Starting, stopping, and deleting virtual switches
104 Working with virtual machines
ioscan -kfNC tgtpath or ioscan -kfNC lunpath
rmsf -H tgtpath or rmsf -H lunpath
Enabling collection of utilization data
7 Collecting and viewing utilization data
Viewing utilization data
Using VM Manager with HP Matrix Operating Environment
108 Collecting and viewing utilization data
Figure 62 View Capacity Advisor data screen upper half
Figure 63 View Capacity Advisor data screen lower half
Creating a historical utilization data report
Viewing VM Manager, Integrity VM, and WBEM Provider versions
8 Viewing logs and version information
Viewing Integrity VM Host and VM logs
112 Viewing logs and version information
Figure 64 VM Manager Version Information screen
Contacting HP
9 Support and other resources
New and changed information in this edition
Related information
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find1
user input
Error messages
A Error messages, status indicators, and troubleshooting
Reviewing error messages
Errors accessing VM Manager
Status indicators
Table 13 Status icons
Utilization meter status/error information
Table 13 explains the meaning of each status icon
Troubleshooting virtual machine problems
Failure starting a virtual machine
Deleted virtual machine still appears in HP Matrix OE visualization
120 Error messages, status indicators, and troubleshooting
Device special file displayed as unknown device
addressing scheme
Glossary
components
See also core
Serviceguard cluster
host
the localnet
Serviceguard cluster
The WBEM services provider for Integrity VM host and guest configuration data. The VM Provider
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see also vCPU
Index
126 Index
virtual machine storage I/O, 66 VM Host
128 Index
WBEM credentials modifying, 85 WBEM providers