HP Insight Control Virtual Machine Management 6.0

Creating a CriticalVmHost collection
1. To create a new collection, from the left pane of the HP SIM screen, click Customize, and then click
New. The New Collection screen appears.
2. Select Choose members by attributes.
3. Select the collection criteria as shown in the screen, and then save the collection as CriticalVmHost.
Scheduling the recovery of virtual machines of failed hosts
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 HP SIM toolbar, select Deploy→Virtual Machine→Recover VMs 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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