Installation guide

38 NovaScale Master 5.2-x Server Add-ons - Installation and Administrator's Guide
3.3.3 NSMasterHyperNova for ”HyperNova” Management
3.3.3.1 Overview
The HyperNova server is a virtualization layer that abstracts processor, memory, storage
and networking resources into multiple virtual machines.
The HyperNova Add-on provides functional links to manage the virtual machines hosted by
the HyperNova server, by requesting the administration tool, HyperNova Master (HN
Master).
The following figure shows the link between each component:
Figure 3-15. HyperNova Add-on components
3.3.3.2 NovaScale Master Configuration
To configure the monitoring elements for the HyperNova Add-on, you have to define an
HyperNova Virtualization Platform from the NovaScale Master Configuration GUI. Native
OS, VMs and related monitoring services are defined in one easy step.
The native OS is represented by a NSMaster host with the OS: Xen.
VMs are represented by a NSMaster host with the model: HyperNova.