HP Integrity Virtual Machines Manager 4.3 Release Notes

1 Overview
Thank you for installing HP Integrity Virtual Machines Manager (also called vmmgr or VM Manager).
These release notes describe known issues and other information specific to Integrity Virtual Machines
Manager v4.3.
The audience for this document includes system administrators and others responsible for maintaining
an Integrity VM host and its virtual machines. You should be familiar with the Integrity VM product
and HP-UX system administration using either HP SMH or HP SIM.
This chapter provides an overview of the HP Integrity Virtual Machines Manager (VM Manager)
and describes the new features provided with version 4.3.
HP Integrity Virtual Machines Manager
HP Integrity Virtual Machines Manager (VM Manager) is the GUI that you can use from your
browser to manage HP Integrity Virtual Machines resources. VM Manager allows you to create,
configure, and evaluate virtual machines, and to monitor and evaluate data and resources at the
level of the VM Host. You can view all of a VM Host's virtual machines and their assigned resources,
and you can view all resources assigned to a specific virtual machine or virtual switch. For example,
VM Manager provides graphical views of virtual-to-physical network and storage devices so that
you can view I/O data, including resource utilization information. VM Manager obtains information
about Integrity VM resources through Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) providers
installed on the VM Host and its guests.
VM Manager is available as a standalone product (the VMMGR bundle) that is installed on a VM
Host and accessed through the HP System Management Homepage ( HP SMH), or as a component
provided with HP Matrix Operating Environment (the VSEMgmt bundle). As a component of Matrix
Operating Environment, VM Manager seamlessly-integrates with other Matrix OE components.
You can access VM Manager from a browser, using either of two web-based software components
(depending on the bundle installed):
• HP System Management Homepage (HP SMH)
When the VM Manager (VMMGR bundle) is installed separately on any given VM Host, you
access VM Manager from a browser that can connect over the network to that VM Host.
Access is provided through HP SMH, and you can manage the one VM Host and its virtual
machines.
• HP Matrix Operating Environment
When VM Manager is installed as part of Matrix Operating Environment (the VSEMgmt
bundle), it is installed with HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) on a central management
server (CMS). You access VM Manager from a browser that can connect over the network to
the CMS. The CMS allows you to manage multiple Integrity VMs (VM Hosts and each of their
virtual machines) that are discovered by Matrix Operating Environment. In this environment,
you can use VM Manager in seamless integration with other Matrix Operating Environment
components. These interlinking components enhance the functionality and flexibility of your
virtual server environment. For example:
◦ Matrix OE visualization provides a framework for visualizing your Virtual Server
Environment. All of the systems and workloads that you are authorized to view are
displayed in a graphical view. The hierarchical relationships between systems and their
current utilization metrics can be seen in a single screen. Using Virtualization Manager,
you can manage a pool of multiple-OS, dynamically sizable virtual servers. You use
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