HP Insight Control Virtual Machine Management 6.3 User Guide

5 Managing virtual machines
Task: Taking backup of virtual machine management database
You must perform a backup of the virtual machine management database to recover the configuration
files/data in case the application crashes.
Take a backup of the following two registry entries:
Installation Key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\HP\Insight Control virtual machine management
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\HP\Insight Control virtual machine
management
Uninstallation Key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\HP
Insight Control virtual machine management_is1
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\HP
Insight Control virtual machine management_is1
NOTE: If the machine is 64 bit, these entries will be,at 32 bit space and 64 bit space
Additionally, the virtual machine management requires that you take a backup of these files:
• [ProdDir]/log
• [ProdDir]/bin/hpglobal.conf
• [ProdDir]/bin/hpvmm.conf
• [ProdDir]/clientapi/bin/hpvmm.conf
• [HPSIM]/hpvmm.conf
• [ProdDir]/lib/vmtoolstrust.ks
• [ProdDir]/../VMMTemplateLib
Here, ProdDir is the virtual machine management Installation Directory and HPSIM is the Systems Insight
Manager Installation Directory
Task: virtual machine management security properties
The virtual machine management runs with administrative permissions. Hence, it is important to ensure that
the management server is appropriately protected to avoid unauthorized access.
VMM supports the following ciphers for encrypted SSL connection:
1. SSL_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_MD5•
• SSL_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA
• TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA
2. Insight Control virtual machine management uses Systems Insight Manager generated, self-signed
certificates. In order to communicate with vCenter on HTTPS, you must enforce host/vCenter certificate
validation for performing any operation on the host. By default, VMM does not enforce host certificate
validation. To enforce the host/vCenter certificate, you must set the "RequireCertificate" parameter to
'1' in hpvmm.conf file, found in the following location:
<VMM installation dir>/bin/hpvmm.conf
After enforcing the required certificate validation, you must perform these tasks:
• Obtain certificates by using Microsoft internet explorer's certificate cache
• Export cached certificates to a local directory
• Import the Host/vCenter certificates into the virtual machine management Keystore
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