HP Insight Control Virtual Machine Management 6.0

• Virtualization layer—The virtualization technology installed on the virtual machine host
• Backup repository—The virtual machine host where the backup locates
• Backup repository location—The physical location of the backup repository
• Date—The date of the last backup
• Virtual machine disk partition—A list of virtual machines controlled by the host
Disk name—The name of the disk•
• Capacity—The capacity of the disk
• %Used—The percentage of disk space used
• %Available—The percentage of disk available space used
NOTE: For Citrix XenServer and VMware ESX, Partition, Format, and Type information might not be
available.
For Citrix XenServer %Used and %Available information might not be available.
▲ Backup details—Details about the most recent backup of the virtual machine, such as source host IP
address, source path, configuration file, virtualization layer, and backup repository
To view completed events involving the selected host or guest, click the Events tab.
Configured and unconfigured virtual machines
NOTE: This section applies only to Citrix XenServer.
Configured and unconfigured virtual machine hosts can appear in HP SIM CMS and have the following
attributes.
Configured
Configured virtual machines meet at least one of the following criteria:
• Proper providers have been installed and the credentials are saved in HP SIM.
• HP SIM can discover and identify the guest operating system running inside the virtual machine host
and with the virtual machine serial number.
• Proper virtual machine host to virtual machine guest association appears.
• Full Insight Control virtual machine management functionality is available.
• Turning off the virtual machine host does not change its status as a configured virtual machine.
• If the virtual machine host is deleted using the HP SIM interface, then the virtual machine host becomes
unconfigured until HP SIM rediscovers it.
Unconfigured
Unconfigured virtual machines meet at least one of the following criteria:
• Have never been powered on.
• Have no guest operating system installed.
• Do not have proper providers installed.
• Have credentials unknown to HP SIM.
Unconfigured virtual machines have the following limitations:
• Permissions cannot be assigned to them.
• Schedules cannot be defined.
• Tools such as creating virtual machine backups, setting performance alerts, setting failover host, or
moving virtual machines are limited.
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