Manual

Table 5 Icons and tasks
FunctionIcon
Start/resume
Shutdown/stop
Pause
Reset/restart
The following tables list supported features for various virtualization layers.
Table 6 Supported Insight Control virtual machine management features in various virtualization
layers
Xen
distribution
on SLES
Xen
distribution
on RHEL
Microsoft
Hyper-V R2
server
HP
integrated
ESXi /
HP
integrated
ESXi 5.0
1
HP
integrated
ESXi /
VMware
ESX 4.1
1
Features
VMware
ESX 4.0
1
Insight Control virtual machine management features
✓✓✓✓✓✓Virtual machine host registration
✓✓✓✓✓✓Virtual machine discovery
Data transfer features
✓✓✓✓✓✓Copy virtual machine
✓✓✓✓✓✓Move virtual machine
XX✓✓✓✓SAN move virtual machine
XX✓✓✓✓Live move virtual machine
——✓——✓Quick move virtual machine
Template features
XX✓✓✓✓Create template from virtual
machine
XX✓✓✓✓Deploy template as virtual
machine
Backup features
XX✓✓✓✓Create backup for virtual
machine
XX✓✓✓✓Restore backup for virtual
machine
XX✓✓✓✓Performance metrics collection
XX✓✓✓✓Set performance threshold
XXX✓✓✓Events collection
XX✓✓✓✓Prefailure alert handling (PFA)
XXX✓✓✓Upgrade a virtual machine guest
template (applicable for
VMware ESX only)
16 Using Insight Control virtual machine management