HP Insight ControlVirtual Machine Management 7.2 User GuideHP Part Number: 380094-408aPublished: April 2013Edition: 2

2 Key conceptsHeterogeneous environmentA heterogeneous environment hosts virtualization layers, such as VMware ESX, Hyper-V, and soon. Insight Control

3 Initial setupLicensingLicensing VMM through the HP Insight Control License ManagerNOTE: Insight Control virtual machine management 7.0 or later work

NOTE: You can hold the SHIFT key to select multiple systems.NOTE: A system presently or previously licensed with a demo key may not be relicensedwith

Updating the HP SIM certificate on CMSInsight Control virtual machine management uses an HP SIM certificate for all its communicationwith HP SIM. Shou

To manually register the virtual machine hosts in a Windows environment:1. From an account with administrative privileges, sign in to HP SIM on the Sy

4 Using Insight Control virtual machine managementThis chapter provides an overview of server virtualization management using the VMM.You can perform

Table 5 Icons and tasksFunctionIconStart/resumeShutdown/stopPauseReset/restartThe following tables lists supported features for various virtualization

Table 6 Supported Insight Control virtual machine management features in various virtualizationlayers (continued)Xendistributionon SLESXendistribution

1. From the left pane of the HP SIM screen, click Customize, and then click New. The NewCollection screen appears.2. Click Choose members by attribute

Performance informationThese sections list information displayed on the Performance tab of the System Page for virtualmachine hosts and guests.• To de

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5 Managing virtual machinesMaking a backup of the virtual machine management databaseYou must perform a backup of the VMM database enable recovery of

set the RequireCertificate parameter to 1 in thehpvmm.conf file, found in the followinglocation:<VMM installation dir>/bin/hpvmm.confAfter enfor

6. For each target server, perform these steps:1. Select the certificate.2. Click Export... to launch the Certificate Export Wizard.3. Click Next to c

1. Add or create the following to the hpvmmsvc.log4j file in the %VMM_INSTALL_FLODER%\bin\ location as %VMM_INSTALL_FLODER%\bin\hpvmmsvc.log4j:#******

Handling automatic prefailure eventsTo handle automatic prefailure events, perform the following:1. Click Deploy→Virtual Machine→Handle Virtual Machin

To handle automatic prefailure events by using the Set Alternate Virtual Machine Host feature,configure prefailure handling using the steps described

7. Specify the location for the backup files to be placed on the virtual machine host, and thenclick Next. For a VMware ESX server virtual machine tha

6 TroubleshootingInsight Control virtual machine management controlsVirtual machine customization fails during template deploymentDuring template depl

Changing the SCVMM server credentials is not reflected in the UI VMM status iconYou must restart the SCVMM/VMM service or server and register the SCVM

Virtual machine host and guest icons do not appear in VMMIf the virtual machine host and guests were previously accessible from VMM and display anInfo

Contents1 Introduction...6Overview...

2. Verify that this name is resolved on the network and is not being affected by any proxy settingsin the browser.3. Be sure to include this link as a

An error occurs when you click Remote DesktopWhen you click Remote Desktop in the HP SIM Host System page using Internet Explorer browser,the followin

Error message Unknown to VMM appears when performing the copy operation ona virtual machineIf the error message Unknown to VMM appears when performing

Insight Control virtual machine management cannot move virtual machines with certaindisk typesInsight Control virtual machine management does not move

To make the VM highly available from VMM, all the VM files must reside on CSV.VM status of the already registered vCenter in all Systems page temporar

3. Add the HP SIM CMS IP address to the Accept SNMP Packets from these hosts box.4. In the Default WBEM Settings box, enter the user name and password

Uninstalling or retiring an HP SIM CMSIf you are uninstalling or retiring an HP SIM CMS, and you are moving HP SIM to a new CMS,you must unregister al

7 Support and other resourcesInformation to collect before contacting HPBe sure to have the following information available before you contact HP:• So

The service also provides access to software updates and reference manuals in electronic form asthey are made available from HP.With this service, Ins

Typographic conventionsThis document uses the following typographical conventions:Book title The title of a book. On the web, this can be a hyperlink

Handling semi-automatic prefailure events with the vCenter Server DRS cluster enabled in thevCenter Server...

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A Virtual machine eventsViewing virtual machine eventsTo view all events related to VMM, expand the Events→Shared directory in the left pane of the HP

Table 7 s/b VMM or s/b Insight Control virtual machine management events (continued)DescriptionEvent typeInsight Control virtual machine management di

Table 7 s/b VMM or s/b Insight Control virtual machine management events (continued)DescriptionEvent typeThis event is received when you manually put

Table 8 vCenter and VMware ESX Server host events (continued)DescriptionEvent typeA virtual machine migration that was recommended by DRS occurred.Drs

Table 8 vCenter and VMware ESX Server host events (continued)DescriptionEvent typeThe VM Host has exited from the DPM-initiated Standby mode successfu

Table 8 vCenter and VMware ESX Server host events (continued)DescriptionEvent typeVirtual machine guest processor event.vmmVMThresholdVirtual machine

B Error messagesThe following tables contain error messages that might appear when performing certain menuselections from HP SIM. To view the table di

Table 11 Deploy→ Virtual Machine→ Move Virtual MachineSolutionCauseError messageTo run Identify system:The machine selected has not beendiscovered as

Table 12 Deploy→ Virtual Machine→ Handle VM host Prefailure Events (continued)SolutionCauseError messageVirtual Machine Host does notappear as the sys

Virtual machine cannot be made highly available unless all the VM files reside on Cluster SharedVolume (CSV)...

Table 15 Configure→ Virtual Machine→ Unregister Virtual Machine HostSolutionCauseError messageThe machine selected has not beendiscovered as a server

Table 17 Configure→ Virtual Machine→ Set Performance ThresholdsSolutionCauseError messageThe machine selected has not beendiscovered as a server by HP

GlossaryCMS HP Systems Insight Manager Central Management Server.guest operatingsystemA distinct operating system instance running in a virtual machin

IndexAaccessing System Page, 15adding licenses, 11agentless management, 8Bblank page appears when launching VMM from HP SIM,29Ccentral management serv

error occurs when clicked, 31restoringusing a backup fails, 30retiring CMS, 36Sserverre-entering serial number, 36slow response time on virtual machin

1 IntroductionOverviewHP Insight Control virtual machine management (VMM) adds virtual machine management capabilitywithin HP Systems Insight Manager

The association between virtual machine hosts and guests appears in the System(s) list. To viewadditional details about virtual machine hosts and gues

Table 2 Virtual machine guest icons displayed in the VM column (continued)StatusIconThe virtual machine guest is associated with a licensed virtual ma

characters for hosts that do not require VMM agents to be installed (ESX4.x/ESXi4.x/Hyper-V/ESXi5.x).Setting the correct host name length 9