Software for Linux User guide

Contents
1 Introduction...............................................................................................6
Overview................................................................................................................................6
Infrastructure............................................................................................................................6
Systems Insight Manager console integration................................................................................6
Agentless management.............................................................................................................8
Setting the correct host name length............................................................................................8
2 Key concepts.............................................................................................9
Heterogeneous environment.......................................................................................................9
Virtual machine........................................................................................................................9
Virtual machine host.................................................................................................................9
Virtual machine guest................................................................................................................9
Handling prefailure alerts..........................................................................................................9
3 Initial setup..............................................................................................10
Licensing...............................................................................................................................10
Licensing VMM through the HP Insight Control License Manager..............................................10
Licensing standalone VMM.................................................................................................10
Adding standalone licenses.................................................................................................10
Applying standalone licenses..............................................................................................10
Configuring...........................................................................................................................11
Configuring WMI Mapper proxy server settings for Microsoft Hyper-V server.............................11
Configuring VMM on a Microsoft Cluster Server....................................................................11
Updating the HP SIM certificate on CMS..............................................................................12
Registering and unregistering...................................................................................................12
Registering virtual machine hosts..........................................................................................12
Methods of registering virtual machine hosts.....................................................................12
Registering virtual machine hosts by using the Configure or Repair Agents tool......................12
Registering virtual machine hosts by using the VMM tool....................................................12
Manually registering virtual machine hosts........................................................................12
Unregistering virtual machine hosts......................................................................................13
Manually unregistering virtual machine hosts.........................................................................13
4 Using Insight Control virtual machine management.......................................15
Insight Control virtual machine management interface overview....................................................15
Using Insight Control virtual machine management controls and tools............................................15
Configuring the polling frequency for virtual machine status checks...............................................17
Creating a CriticalVmHost collection.........................................................................................17
VMware ESX Server Guest System page....................................................................................17
Performance information..........................................................................................................18
Performance color codes.........................................................................................................18
Multisystem aware tools available.............................................................................................18
5 Managing virtual machines.......................................................................20
Making a backup of the virtual machine management database ..................................................20
Task: VMM security properties .................................................................................................20
Enabling certificate validation and CRL validation..................................................................22
Logging VMM logs into Windows NT Events..............................................................................22
Handling prefailure events.......................................................................................................23
Prerequisites......................................................................................................................23
Handling automatic prefailure events....................................................................................24
Handling automatic prefailure events by using the vCenter Server DRS cluster enabled in the
vCenter Server...................................................................................................................24
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