User's Manual

8 Introduction
Features and Functionalities
Dell PRO Pack:
• Performs PRO-management of Dell PowerEdge systems running Microsoft
Hyper-V platforms, by continually monitoring the health of your physical
and virtual infrastructure.
• Works with Operations Manager and SCVMM to detect events such as
loss of power supply redundancy, higher temperature than threshold
values, system storage battery error, virtual disk failure, and so on. For more
information on events supported by Dell PRO Pack, see Alerts and
Recovery Actions.
• Generates PRO Tip when the monitored hardware moves to an unhealthy
state.
• Performs VM live migration with no downtime. For more information, see
VM Live Migration.
• Overrides Dell PRO Pack default recovery actions. For more information,
see Overriding Recovery Actions.
• Minimizes downtime by implementing the remedial action provided on
PRO Tips. The two remedial actions are:
•
Restrict: In this mode, it is recommended that servers are made
temporarily unavailable for placing new VMs till the maintenance
tasks are complete.
•
Restrict and migrate: In this mode, it is recommended that all
running VMs are migrated from an unhealthy server to a healthy server
to prevent loss of service. For more information, see Implementing
Recovery Actions.
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