HP Integrity Virtual Machines Manager 4.3 Release Notes

Virtualization Manager to access VM Manager for viewing and modifying VM Host or
virtual machine components.
◦ HP Global Workload Manager (gWLM) is a multiple-system, multiple-OS workload
manager that serves as an intelligent policy engine in Matrix Operating Environment. It
simplifies the deployment of automated workload management policies across multiple
servers, and provides centralized monitoring and reporting and improved server utilization
to assist in meeting your service level objectives. Using VM Manager with Matrix Operating
Environment, you can create, view, and modify gWLM policies for virtual machines.
◦ HP Capacity Advisor is capacity analysis and planning software that allows you to
optimize the workloads across your Matrix Operating Environment environment for the
highest utilization of server resources. From VM Manager, you can cause Capacity Advisor
to collect and display data for a VM Host or selected virtual machine. Certain VM Manager
views include utilization meters that display current utilization data for a resource; you
can click the meter to view a more detailed historical data report. (These meters are visible
when using VM Manager with HP SMH, but you cannot click them to obtain a Capacity
Advisor report.)
Other Matrix Operating Environment components include:
◦ Application Discovery
◦ HP Instant Capacity Manager
◦ Partition Manager
◦ WBEM providers (which include the VM provider and the Utilization provider) and other
agents
For more information about Matrix Operating Environment concepts and terminology, including
a complete list of the components in Matrix Operating Environment, see the HP Matrix
Operating Environment 7.0 Getting Started Guide.
Information about HP SMH is available from the following HP SMH website:
http://www.hp.com/go/smh
Information about HP SIM is available from the following HP SIM website:
http://www.hp.com/go/hpsim
New in this release
The VM Manager version 4.3 includes the following new features:
• The Tools menu is enhanced to include the following new options:
Suspend Virtual Machines◦
◦ Resume Virtual Machines
◦ VM Move Suspend
• Automatic Memory Reallocation (AMR): The Specify Memory page is modified to include an
option to enable AMR for a virtual machine.
• Enable encryption during guest migration: The Migrate Virtual Machine page is modified to
include a checkbox to enable encryption during online migration.
• Remote console and virtual console: A new Console tab is added to the VM Manager GUI.
This tab provides options to create, start, modify, and delete remote consoles for the virtual
machines. You can also start a virtual console from this tab.
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