HP Virtualization Manager 6.0 Software with Logical Server Management User Guide
Table Of Contents
- HP Insight Virtualization Manager 6.0 Software with Logical Server Management: User Guide
- Table of Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Getting started with Virtualization Manager
- 3 Working with logical servers
- Using logical servers in Virtualization Manager
- New features in logical servers
- Understanding logical servers as they appear in visualization perspectives
- Logical server operations
- Authorizations, requirements, and configuration
- Logical server requirements
- Configuring and registering VMware vCenter
- Configuring VMware vSphere client settings for browsing datastore
- Configuring HP SIM with Onboard Administrator credentials
- Configuring HP SIM for SAN storage validation
- Configuring Extensible Server & Storage Adapter (ESA)
- Configuring Storage Provisioning Manager (SPM)
- LSMUTIL database utility
- 4 Defining storage for logical servers
- 5 Troubleshooting
- Navigation tips
- User preferences tips
- Performance tips
- Problems with meters collecting data
- Search button displays error page
- Displaying empty, hidden resource pools
- Errors accessing single sign-on iLO or Onboard Administrator
- Recovery after logical server operation failures
- Troubleshooting an inoperable logical server
- Correcting problems powering on a logical server
- Logical server operations cannot be cancelled
- Logical Server Automation service fails to start if TCP layer ports are in use
- Use portable WWNs and MAC addresses for Virtual Connect domain groups
- Do not use valid host name as logical server name
- Oversubscribing the number of networks
- Insufficient NICs error when activating or moving logical servers (Virtual Connect Flex-10 support)
- Use caution when renaming or moving a Virtual Connect domain group
- Deactivate or move logical servers before replacing blade
- Unmanaging a logical server using a storage pool entry may result in an inconsistent state
- Synchronize clocks on the CMS, managed systems, and VMware vCenter
- Ensure VM Hosts use fully qualified host names
- VM Hosts must be in same vCenter for ESX virtual machine logical server moves
- VM displayed without association in Virtualization Manager perspectives after deactivation
- Moving logical servers when the CMS and vCenter are in different network domains
- Changing the IP address of a VM Host after logical server discovery prevents the VM Host from appearing as an activation and move target
- Creating and managing logical servers on Microsoft Windows Hyper-V Server 2008
- 6 Advanced features
- 7 Support and other resources
- Index
esa.oo.communication.protocol=https
esa.oo.admin.username=Admin
esa.oo.admin.password=password
esa.oo.host=xx.xx.xx.xx
esa.oo.port=16443
esa.oo.service.ws.path=/PAS/services/WSCentralService
esa.oo.timeout.workflow=30
esa.oo.retry.count=3
esa.oo.syncpolling=100
esa.oo.esacertificate.presentIn.OO=FALSE
esa.oo.san.replytoURI=http://xx.xx.xx.xx:52000/esa/services/oostorageservice?wsdl
esa.oo.server.replytoURI=http://xx.xx.xx.xx:52000/esa/services/ooserverservice?wsdl
Configuring Storage Provisioning Manager (SPM)
HP Storage Provisioning Manager (SPM) is a software tool that provides a service-centric
management interface to storage, allowing storage requests to be fulfilled with available storage
services from a storage catalog.
SPM is automatically installed as part of Insight Dynamics. Before you can use SPM:
• The MSA SMI-S Proxy Provider must be installed and configured, and attached to at least
one MSA.
• An EVA must be installed and attached to SPM, and configured to use Command View
(CV).
SPM can also be connected to storage arrays that are managed by HP Insight Orchestration
(HPIO), and to unmanaged storage arrays.
To start SPM, open an internet browser to https://servername:8001, where “servername” is the
name of your CMS or the name of the server hosting SPM. The online help for SPM is available
at https://servername:8001/help/index.html.
The security certificate for data encryption is generated by SPM at runtime; therefore it is not
signed by a Certificate Authority. The first time you access SPM, the browser displays a warning
that SPM can not be proven to be a trusted site. Follow the instructions on the warning to allow
access in order to launch SPM. The warning will not display again.
See “Storage Provisioning Manager” (page 62) and “Setting up SPM for use with logical server
storage” (page 63) for more information.
LSMUTIL database utility
LSMUTIL is a script that you can run from the command line or from a DOS bat file. LSMUTIL
reads information from the logical servers tables in the VSE database. Based on the option you
select, the script looks up information in the tables, or performs basic database operations.
NOTE: You can use the LSMUTIL to configure a logical server to use local disks, and to configure
non-Virtual Connect servers. For more information, see the following white papers at
www.hp.com/go/insightdynamics/docs:
Logical Server Management Best Practices
Insight Dynamics — Automated Storage Provisioning: “Static” SAN volume automation via multi-initiator
NPIV
The LSMUTIL command line is:
lsmutil --option suboption > filename
LSMUTIL example
lsmutil --list
Server and storage list on host pvm1 at 2010-02-18 16:00:20
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