HP Insight Control Virtual Machine Management 6.3 User Guide

NOTE: For Microsoft Hyper-V R2 Server, the highly available virtual machines will be recovered by the
Microsoft failover clustering feature in Microsoft Hyper-V.
Setting up the recovery feature
1. In Systems Insight Manager create a CriticalVmHost collection based on the system health parameters.
2. Set the alternate host for your virtual machines so that you have defined alternate hosts appropriately.
3. Schedule the recovery of failed virtual machine hosts based on the collection and events.
Recovery actions do not occur on virtual machine hosts or virtual machines unless you have set an
alternate host set, even if those virtual machine hosts or virtual machines are included in the CriticalVmHost
collection. To schedule the recovery of virtual machines of failed hosts for any system that has turned
critical and is part of the CriticalVmHost collection:
1. From the Systems Insight Manager toolbar, select Deploy→Virtual Machine→Recover Virtual
Machines of Failed Host.
The Step 1: Select Target Systems screen appears.
2. From the Add targets by selecting from list, select CriticalVmHost.
3. Select Select “CriticalVmHost” itself as the target. Click Apply.
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