HP Insight Control Virtual Machine Management 6.0

Deleting a virtual machine guest template...........................................................................................36
Creating a virtual machine guest backup............................................................................................36
Restoring a virtual machine guest backup............................................................................................37
Restoring the most recent virtual machine guest backup.........................................................................38
Recovering virtual machines of a failed host on a VMware ESX Server, Citrix XenServer or Microsoft Hyper-V
R2 server........................................................................................................................................38
Removing an alternate virtual machine host on a VMware ESX Server, Citrix XenServer, or Microsoft Hyper-V
R2 server........................................................................................................................................39
Launching vCenter...........................................................................................................................39
Setting or removing the performance threshold....................................................................................39
Configuring the polling frequency for virtual machine status checks..............................................................39
Setting the alternate virtual machine host..................................................................................................40
Handling prefailure events......................................................................................................................40
Prerequisites....................................................................................................................................40
Handling automatic prefailure events..................................................................................................41
Handling automatic prefailure events using the vCenter Server DRS cluster enabled in the vCenter Server....41
Handling semi-automatic prefailure events with the vCenter Server DRS cluster enabled in the vCenter
Server............................................................................................................................................41
Handling automatic prefailure events using the Set Alternate host feature.................................................41
Handling semi-automatic events using the Set Alternate host feature........................................................42
Handling automatic prefailure events using the Set Alternate host feature.................................................42
Handling semi-automatic events using the Set Alternate host feature........................................................42
Failed host recovery..............................................................................................................................42
Setting up the recovery feature................................................................................................................43
Creating a CriticalVmHost collection.......................................................................................................44
Scheduling the recovery of virtual machines of failed hosts.........................................................................44
VMware ESX Server Guest System page...................................................................................................46
Performance information........................................................................................................................46
Displaying virtual machine host performance information...........................................................................47
Virtual machine host performance......................................................................................................47
Virtual machine performance.............................................................................................................47
Threshold settings.............................................................................................................................48
Displaying virtual machine guest performance..........................................................................................48
Virtual machine performance.............................................................................................................48
Resource allocation...............................................................................................................................49
Threshold settings.............................................................................................................................49
Performance color codes........................................................................................................................49
Multisystem aware tools available...........................................................................................................50
4 Troubleshooting........................................................................................51
Troubleshooting....................................................................................................................................51
Installation...........................................................................................................................................51
In an environment using multiple instances of HP SIM CMS, Insight Control virtual machine management
can only be installed on one CMS.....................................................................................................51
System starting improperly or installation fails to proceed......................................................................51
Some menus do not appear in the toolbars.........................................................................................52
After upgrade, virtual machine host registration completes successfully without discovering the vCenter
server and without vCenter credentials................................................................................................52
Uninstalling Insight Control virtual machine management......................................................................52
VMMclient.jar, commons-cli-1.0.jar, or org.mortbay.jetty.jar files fail to copy............................................52
Mouse does not work properly after Microsoft Hyper-V server installation................................................52
Configuration.......................................................................................................................................53
Insight Control virtual machine management host registration fails..........................................................53
Virtual machine host registration CRA fails when selected with "Install Linux PSP or ESX agents" for VMware
ESX 3.5 U4.....................................................................................................................................53
Performance information does not appear for Citrix XenServer host and virtual machines...........................53
Insight Control virtual machine management items are not removed from the HP SIM toolbar with Insight
Control virtual machine management uninstallation..............................................................................53
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