HP Integrity Virtual Machines Manager Version 4.0 Getting Started Guide

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 VSE, you can create, view, and
modify gWLM policies for virtual machines. For more information, see “Using the
Policy Menu” (page 67).
— HP Capacity Advisor is capacity analysis and planning software that allows you to
optimize the workloads across your VSE for the highest utilization of server resources.
From VM Manager, you can cause Capacity Advisor to collect and display historical
data for a VM Host or selected virtual machines. Certain VM Manager views include
utilization meters (bar graphs) that display current utilization data for a resource; you
can click the meter to view a screen that provides more detailed historical data. (These
meters are visible when using VM Manager with HP SMH, but you cannot click them
to obtain a Capacity Advisor report.) For more information about using VM Manager
to collect and view utilization data, see “Collecting and Viewing Utilization Data”
(page 68). For more information about accessing Capacity Advisor through VM Manager,
see “Using the Tools Menu” (page 59) and “Using the View Menu” (page 65).
Other components that are integrated with VSE include:
— HP Application Discovery
— HP Instant Capacity Manager
— WBEM providers and other VSE agents
For more information about VSE concepts and terminology, including a complete list of the
components in the VSE Management Software suite, see the HP Insight Dynamics — VSE
and HP VSE Management Software 4.1 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
VM Manager Tasks
Use VM Manager to create and manage Integrity VM virtual machines. To take full advantage
of VM Manager, you can perform the following tasks:
• Create and control virtual machines
• Monitor VM Host and virtual machine operation
• Start, stop, or restart virtual machines
• Modify virtual machine configurations
• Create and manage virtual machine resources, such as virtual switches (vswitches), virtual
network devices, and virtual storage devices
For information about using VM Manager and monitoring the VM Host and virtual machines,
see Chapter 3 (page 25). For information about using VM Manager to create and manage virtual
machines and their resources, see Chapter 4 (page 75).
16 Introduction to HP Integrity Virtual Machines and HP Integrity Virtual Machines Manager