HP Insight Control Virtual Machine Management 6.0
• vCenter Server information
• vCenter and VMware ESX Server host events
The following tasks can be initiated for a virtual machine from the VM Host System or VM Guest System
page:
• Launching Remote Console
• Launching Remote Desktop
• Launching vCenter
• Launching SCVMM
The following tasks can be initiated from the VM Host System page:
• Launching SCVMM
• Launching vCenter
The following are miscellaneous tasks:
▲ Updating the HP SIM certificate on CMS
The following tables list supported features for various virtualization layers.
Table 3-3 Supported Insight Control virtual machine management features in various virtualization layers
Xen
distribution on
SLES
Xen
distribution
on RHEL
HP
integrated
XenServer/Citrix
XenServer
Microsoft
Hyper-V R2
server
Microsoft
Hyper-V R1
server
HP
integrated
ESXi/VMware
ESX 4.0
"HP
integrated
ESXi/VMware
ESX 3.5
VMware ESX
3.0
Features
✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓Virtual
machine host
registration
✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓Virtual
machine
discovery
Table 3-4 Supported data transfer features in various virtualization layers
Xen
distribution on
SLES
Xen
distribution
on RHEL
HP
integrated
Citrix
XenServer/Citrix
XenServer
Microsoft
Hyper-V R2
server
Microsoft
Hyper-V R1
server
HP
integrated
VMware
ESXi/VMware
ESX 4.0
"HP
integrated
ESXi/VMware
ESX 3.5
VMware ESX
3.0
Data transfer
features
✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓Copy virtual
machine
✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓Move virtual
machine
XX✓✓X✓✓✓SAN move
virtual
machine
XX✓✓X✓✓✓Live move
virtual
machine
———✓✓———Quick move
virtual
machine
24 Using HP Insight Control virtual machine management