Owner's Manual

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a The workflow will move the physical host server into maintenance
mode.
NOTE: When the physical host server is moved to maintenance mode, AIM will
not use the machine for any other Workload reallocation.
b
After stopping the persona using the Stop activity.
NOTE: To check if the persona is NetBooted the GetPersona object is used.
c If this persona is a netbooted persona then the Start activity takes care
of starting the persona.
d The Persona (work flow) will start in some other host based on the
server pools it is assigned. AIM chooses the target host.
NOTE: Both Stop and Start activities are included with optional Timeout
property which makes the activity blocking, that is, the activity will wait till the
time set for the persona to change to the intended state runs out.
e
The Workflow creates appropriate SCOM alerts during the failure and
success events.
4 If IsVMRack determines the physical server has a Host hosting
VMRACK:
a The workflow will put the VMRack in maintenance mode.
NOTE: When the VMRack server is moved to maintenance mode, this will stop
AIM from assigning more personas to this VMRack.
b
The Get VM s activity will get all the Virtual Machines running on
that VMRack.
Since more than one persona are running on a
VMRack , this object
can return a
multi-instance array. So following activities gets executed
for each instance, that is for each persona running on that VMRack:
•Persona is
Stopped .
•Persona is
Started again if it is a NetBooted persona.
NOTE: To Check if the persona is NetBooted the GetPersona object is used.
Since the VMRack from which this persona is moved is in maintenance
mode, AIM takes care of starting the persona in the next available host.
Here it is assumed that the persona is assigned with server pools. Both
Stop and Start use the timeout property to make it a blocking call. For
more details refer Dell AIM integration pack user guide.
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