HP Virtualization Manager 6.0 Software with Logical Server Management User Guide

Manage target attributes
The Modify→Logical Server Target Attributes.. menu selection allows you to add and remove
target attributes to and from a logical server. Target attributes track the systems on which a
logical server has been successfully activated or moved, and allow you to create a richer set of
targets without warnings.
You can view or modify the target attributes of a logical server by selecting the logical server
and using the Modify→Logical Server Target Attributes→Manage... menu selection.
Types of target systems can be added to or removed from the logical server’s target attributes.
Selecting a server from the Target Attributes Available to Add table adds that type of server with
its associated resources to the list of most suitable targets for the logical server. Selecting a type
of server from the Target Attributes Available to Remove table causes the specified type of server
to no longer be considered most suitable.
Modify
The Modify→Logical Server... menu selection allows you to modify or view the details of an
existing logical server.
In general, you can modify only an inactive logical server. However, you can modify the
description fields of an active logical server, and you can modify an active Virtual Connect logical
server by adding a data volume to an existing SAN storage entry for the logical server.
When you modify an inactive logical server, your changes are saved for future use, and applied
when you activate it.
Move
The Tools→Logical Servers→Move... menu selection moves an active logical server onto
another host. The host can be a server blade (for a Virtual Connect logical server), or a hypervisor
(for an ESX, Hyper-V, or HP Integrity virtual machine logical server).
When you select a target on which to move a logical server, you are shown a Headroom rating
that displays between one and five stars, with the higher number of stars denoting more excess
resources are available on the target server.
You can move an active logical server onto another host using a menu selection, and by dragging
and dropping the logical server onto another server with Virtual Connect or hypervisor in the
Physical and Virtual, Blades, and Virtual Machines perspectives in Visualization tab.
NOTE: Moving a logical server using drag and drop displays targets only with the best fit (no
errors). To see potential targets that have soft errors, use the Tools→Logical Servers→Move...
menu selection to move the logical server.
Moving Virtual Connect logical servers
If you are moving a logical server from one server with Virtual Connect to another, the following
restrictions apply.
• You can move Virtual Connect logical servers within a Virtual Connect domain group. You
cannot move logical servers from one VCDG to another.
• HP recommends that you shut down the server blade on which the logical server was
activated before you move it. Otherwise, the source server will be ungracefully shut down
and powered off.
• Moving a logical server shuts down the server blade, powers it off, moves the logical server,
and powers on the target server blade, by default. If the source blade is powered off, you
can uncheck the Power On the VM or the Blade checkbox to keep the target blade powered
off after the move. You can also use the Logical Servers→Power→On... or Logical
Servers→Power→Off... menu selections after the move is complete.
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