HP Insight Control Virtual Machine Management 6.0

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About this document......................................................................................9
Intended audience..................................................................................................................................9
Related documents..................................................................................................................................9
HP encourages your comments.................................................................................................................9
1 Introduction.............................................................................................11
HP Insight Control virtual machine management........................................................................................11
Infrastructure.........................................................................................................................................11
HP Systems Insight Manager console integration.......................................................................................12
Agentless Management.........................................................................................................................13
2 HP Insight Control virtual machine management licensing..............................15
Licensing HP Insight Control virtual machine management through the Insight Control license manager............15
Licensing standalone Insight Control virtual machine management...............................................................15
Adding standalone licenses....................................................................................................................15
Applying standalone licenses..................................................................................................................16
3 Using HP Insight Control virtual machine management..................................17
Registering virtual machine hosts.............................................................................................................17
Configuring VMware vCenter servers ......................................................................................................17
Configuring the xapi port for Citrix XenServer...........................................................................................18
Configuring WMI Mapper proxy server settings for Microsoft Hyper-V server................................................18
Configuring Insight Control virtual machine management on a Microsoft Cluster Server..................................18
Unregistering virtual machine hosts..........................................................................................................18
Updating the HP SIM certificate on CMS..................................................................................................19
Insight Control virtual machine management interface overview..................................................................19
Virtual machine host..............................................................................................................................19
Virtual machine guest............................................................................................................................21
Configured and unconfigured virtual machines..........................................................................................22
Configured.....................................................................................................................................22
Unconfigured..................................................................................................................................22
Using Insight Control virtual machine management controls and tools..........................................................23
Starting or resuming a virtual machine guest.......................................................................................26
Shutting down or stopping a virtual machine guest...............................................................................26
Suspending or pausing a virtual machine guest...................................................................................26
Resetting or restarting a virtual machine guest......................................................................................27
Launching remote access..................................................................................................................27
Launching Remote Console................................................................................................................27
Launching Remote Desktop................................................................................................................28
Launching SCVMM..........................................................................................................................29
Microsoft Hyper-V Server Host System page....................................................................................29
Microsoft Hyper-V Server Guest System page..................................................................................29
Launching VC.......................................................................................................................................29
VMware ESX Server Host System page...............................................................................................30
vCenter Server information................................................................................................................30
Copying a virtual machine guest........................................................................................................30
SUSE Linux scenario....................................................................................................................31
Moving a virtual machine guest.........................................................................................................32
Moving virtual machine guests.....................................................................................................32
Creating a virtual machine guest template...........................................................................................34
Migrating virtual machine guest templates and backups........................................................................34
Deploying a virtual machine guest template.........................................................................................35
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