HP Installing VM Manager for Integrity Virtual Machines and UX Virtual Machine Environments

2 Installing VM Manager

This chapter discusses how to install VM Manager on your system or on the systems you will manage, including setup and software requirements, licensing requirements, and how to set WBEM security credentials.

System and software requirements

System requirements for the VM Host and virtual machines are described in the HP Integrity Virtual Machines Installation, Configuration, and Administration manual. In addition, see the HP Integrity Virtual Machines Release Notes, which are available on the product media. The most up-to-date release notes are available at the following location (click on the HP Matrix Operating Environment for HP-UX tab):

http://www.hp.com/go/matrixoe/docs

NOTE: Operating system support for VM Host and guests varies from release to release of HP Integrity Virtual Machines. For information about operating systems supported by a particular release and about installing supported operating systems on virtual machines, see the HP Integrity Virtual Machines Installation, Configuration, and Administration manual.

With use of VM Manager in the Matrix OE environment, any managed node must have WBEM and the appropriate WBEM credentials to support the visualization and configuration features of HP Matrix OE visualization and the collection of utilization data by HP Capacity Advisor. Without WBEM, only Global Workload Manager (gWLM) is functional. Managed nodes are systems that the user has instructed HP Systems Insight Manager to manage. For Matrix OE, all virtual machines and their VM Host are managed nodes. Systems become managed nodes through the Systems Insight Manager “discovery” mechanism. Nodes can be discovered by Systems Insight Manager in various ways, including automated discovery or manual addition of the node. For example, you can configure and initiate node discovery, and perform numerous other setup tasks, by using the Insight managed system setup wizard. For more information, see the Insight managed system setup wizard getting started guide, available at the following location:

http://www.hp.com/go/matrixoe/docs

To use VM Manager and all its features, install the required WBEM provider components on the VM Host and on the virtual machine guests.

In the Matrix OE environment, to install such components on guests, use the Insight managed system setup wizard. The wizard allows you to choose whether to install the VM Provider. The wizard also checks the selected virtual machines for the appropriate versions of Utilization Provider software and installs the software as needed on supported platforms. (On a VM Host, you must install the appropriate providers manually, using the VM Host command line.) For more information, see the Insight managed system setup wizard getting started guide and the HP Integrity Virtual Machines documentation available from the HP Technical Documentation website (for the HP Integrity Virtual Machines documentation, click on the HP Matrix Operating Environment for HP-UX tab):

http://www.hp.com/go/matrixoe/docs

In the HP SMH environment, install the required provider components on the virtual machine guests. These components are located in /opt/hpvm/guest-imageson the VM Host. Subdirectories contain the guest management software for each type of guest operating system, including both HP-UX versions 11i v2 and v3, Windows, and Linux. Each subdirectory includes software provided by HP Integrity VM that should be installed on the guest, including the latest VM Provider software.

For more information about installing software components on the VM Host and guests, see the HP Integrity Virtual Machines Installation, Configuration, and Administration manual and the HP Integrity Virtual Machines Release Notes.

The WBEM provider components are the VM Provider and the Utilization Provider:

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