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• 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.
Understanding PRO Tip Management
This section explains a typical Dell PRO Pack setup and the sequence of events involved in PRO tip
management.
Figure 1. Interaction of Components
In the figure, a group of PowerEdge systems act as the managed systems and two PowerEdge systems
act as management stations hosting the Operations Manager and VMM. OMSA generates alerts with
corresponding severity when there is a transition to an unhealthy state. Dell PRO Pack monitors the same
alerts for PRO. Dell PRO Pack maps the OMSA alerts with its remedial action.
The following table describes the sequence of events that occur in PRO Tip management.
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