HP Insight Control Virtual Machine Management 6.3 User Guide

Table 4-1 Icons and tasks
FunctionIcon
Start/resume
Shutdown/stop
Pause
Reset/restart
The following tables list supported features for various virtualization layers.
Table 4-2 Supported Insight Control virtual machine management features in various virtualization layers
Xen
distribution on
SLES
Xen
distribution on
RHEL
Microsoft
Hyper-V R2
server
HP integrated
ESXi /
VMware ESX
4.0
1
HP integrated
ESXi /
VMware ESX
3.5
1
HP integrated
ESXi /
VMware ESX
4.1
1
Features
Insight Control virtual machine management features
✓✓✓✓✓✓Virtual machine host registration
✓✓✓✓✓✓Virtual machine discovery
Data transfer features
✓✓✓✓✓✓Copy virtual machine
✓✓✓✓✓✓Move virtual machine
XX✓✓✓✓SAN move virtual machine
XX✓✓✓✓Live move virtual machine
——✓——✓Quick move virtual machine
Template features
XX✓✓✓✓Create template from virtual
machine
XX✓✓✓✓Deploy template as virtual machine
Backup features
XX✓✓✓✓Create backup for virtual machine
XX✓✓✓✓Restore backup for virtual machine
XX✓✓✓✓Performance metrics collection
XX✓✓✓✓Set performance threshold
XXX✓✓✓Events collection
XX✓✓✓✓Failed host recovery (FHR)
XX✓✓✓✓Prefailure alert handling (PFA)
XXX✓✓✓Upgrade a virtual machine guest
template (applicable for VMware
ESX only)
XX✓✓✓✓Deleting a virtual machine guest
template
XXX✓✓✓Upgrade a virtual machine guest
backup (applicable for Vmware ESX
only)
1 Requires VMware vCenter Server.
20 Using virtual machine management