HP Insight Control Virtual Machine Management 6.
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Table of Contents 1 Introduction...............................................................................................9 Overview...............................................................................................................................................9 Infrastructure...........................................................................................................................................9 HP Systems Insight Manager console integration.............................
Handling semi-automatic pre-failure events with the vCenter Server DRS cluster enabled in the vCenter Server............................................................................................................................................26 Handling automatic pre-failure events using the Set Alternate host feature................................................27 Handling semi-automatic events using the Set Alternate host feature........................................................
Re-entering the server serial number and product ID ............................................................................36 Additional resources.........................................................................................................................36 Support and other resources.........................................................................39 Information to collect before contacting HP..........................................................................................
List of Tables 1-1 1-2 1-3 4-1 4-2 A-1 A-2 B-1 B-2 B-3 B-4 B-5 B-6 B-7 B-8 B-9 Virtual machine host icons displayed in the VM column........................................................................10 Virtual machine guest icons displayed in the VM column......................................................................11 vCenter Server status icons displayed in the VM column.......................................................................11 Icons and tasks..................................
1 Introduction Overview HP Insight Control virtual machine management adds virtual machine management capability within HP Systems Insight Manager version 6.0 or later.
The association between virtual machine hosts and guests appears in the System(s) list. To view additional details about virtual machine hosts and guests, in the System Name column, click an entry. The color-coded icons listed in the following tables indicate the status of the virtual machine hosts and guests. Table 1-1 Virtual machine host icons displayed in the VM column Icon Status The virtual machine host is licensed and is communicating with virtual machine management.
Table 1-2 Virtual machine guest icons displayed in the VM column Icon Status The virtual machine guest is associated with a licensed virtual machine host, and the guest is started. The virtual machine guest is associated with a licensed virtual machine host, but the host is not communicating with virtual machine management. The virtual machine guest is in a state that requires user attention. The virtual machine guest is associated with a licensed virtual machine host, but the guest is not started.
2 Key concepts Heterogeneous environment A heterogeneous environment hosts virtualization layers, such as Citrix, VMware ESX, Hyper-V, and so on. Insight Control virtual machine management supports the heterogeneity by providing a uniform way to access and manage all the hypervisors. For information about the supported hypervisors, see the HP Insight Software Support Matrix available at: www.hp.com/go/insightcontrol/docs.
The handling pre-failure events feature is supported in the following virtual machines on shared storage: 14 • VMware ESX, where the ESX Host is enabled for VMotion. • Citrix XenServer, where the XenServer host and virtual machines are in a resource pool. • Microsoft Hyper-V R2 servers, where the virtual machines are HA-enabled and powered on.
3 Initial setup Licensing Licensing virtual machine management through the HP Insight Control license manager NOTE: Insight Control virtual machine management 6.0 or later works only with Systems Insight Manager 6.0 or later. To add or deploy license keys, you must have Systems Insight Manager administrative rights. The standard procedure for licensing virtual machine management is to purchase and apply HP Insight Control licenses. For more information or to purchase licenses, see http://www.hp.
3. 4. Select the License Category you want to assign, and then click Assign License(s).... The Assign Licenses section appears. Select target systems, and then click Assign License Now. NOTE: You can hold the SHIFT key to select multiple systems. NOTE: A system presently or previously licensed with a demo key may not be re-licensed with another demo key.
Updating the Systems Insight Manager certificate on CMS Insight Control virtual machine management uses a Systems Insight Manager certificate for all its communication with Systems Insight Manager. Should changes be made to the Systems Insight Manager certificate, you must restart the virtual machine management service to use the updated certificate.
1. 2. 3. 4. From Systems Insight Manager, select the VM hosts to be registered, and then click Configure→Virtual Machine→Register Virtual Machine Host. The Register Virtual Machine Host wizard appears. From the Step 1: Verify Target Systems page, click Next. From the Step 2: Task Confirmation page, click Run Now. Enter the credentials, and then click Run Now. If elevation privilege is enabled then you must enter the credentials.
4 Using virtual machine management This chapter provides an overview of server virtualization management using the virtual machine management. You can perform all virtual machine management operations with either operator or administrator rights. Insight Control virtual machine management interface overview Insight Control virtual machine management provides central management and control for virtual machines hosted on Microsoft Hyper-V server, VMware ESX Server, Citrix XenServer, or Xen on RHEL or SLES.
Table 4-1 Icons and tasks Icon Function Start/resume Shutdown/stop Pause Reset/restart The following tables list supported features for various virtualization layers. Table 4-2 Supported Insight Control virtual machine management features in various virtualization layers Features VMware ESX 3.01 HP integrated ESXi / VMware ESX 3.51 HP Microsoft Microsoft HP Xen Xen integrated Hyper-V R1 Hyper-V R2 integrated distribution distribution ESXi / server server XenServer on RHEL on SLES VMware / Citrix ESX 4.
Features VMware ESX 3.01 HP integrated ESXi / VMware ESX 3.51 Migrating a virtual machine guest backup ✓ ✓ 1 HP Microsoft Microsoft HP Xen Xen integrated Hyper-V R1 Hyper-V R2 integrated distribution distribution ESXi / server server XenServer on RHEL on SLES VMware / Citrix ESX 4.01 XenServer ✓ X X X X X Requires VMware vCenter Server.
The failed host recovery feature enables you to recover a failed virtualchines of Hyper-V R2 server and leverage the ability of Systems Insight Manager SIM to detect hardware failures. For Microsoft Hyper-V R2 Server, virtual machines on failed hosts must meet the following requirements to be recovered on alternate hosts: • The virtual machine must not be highly enabled. • The virtual machine configuration and disk files must be on cluster shared volumes.
Creating a CriticalVmHost collection 1. To create a new collection, from the left pane of the Systems Insight Manager screen, click Customize, and then click New. The New Collection screen appears. 2. 3. Select Choose members by attributes. Select the collection criteria as shown in the screen, and then save the collection as CriticalVmHost. VMware ESX Server Guest System page When using a VMware ESX Server, from the Guest System page, click Launch vCenter.
Performance information These sections list information displayed on the Performance tab of the System Page for virtual machine hosts and guests. • To determine virtual machine host capacity and virtual machine workload characteristics, use the performance information. • To create alerts and log messages based on user-selectable performance values, use the threshold settings. Performance color codes The color codes on the Performance page indicate the percentage of a resource that has been consumed.
5 Managing virtual machines Task: Logging virtual machine management logs into Windows NT Events To log virtual machine management logs into Windows NT Events, perform the following: 1. Add or create the following to the hpvmmsvc.log4j file in the %VMM_INSTALL_FLODER%\bin\ location as %VMM_INSTALL_FLODER%\bin\hpvmmsvc.
5. 6. Select the servers that have access to the same LUNs on shared storage from the Available Items box and move them to Selected Items box. Click Save as Collection to save the collection with an appropriate name, for example, Prefailure VMware ESX Collection. Handling pre-failure events is supported for virtual machines that are on shared storage. Handling automatic pre-failure events To handle automatic pre-failure events, perform the following: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
Handling automatic pre-failure events using the Set Alternate host feature Prerequisite: The virtual machines must have an alternate virtual machine host set. To handle automatic pre-failure events using the Set Alternate host feature, configure pre-failure handling using the steps described in Handling automatic pre-failure events.
7. 8. 9. 28 Specify the location for the backup files to be placed on the virtual machine host, and then click Next. For a VMware ESX server virtual machine that is powered up, choose one of the following: • Perform the backup while the virtual machine is running. During the backup operation, disk changes are written to a new redo log and applied when the backup completes. • Pause the virtual machine for the duration of the backup operation and resume processing when the backup completes.
6 Troubleshooting Insight Control virtual machine management controls Virtual machine host and guest icons do not appear in virtual machine management If the virtual machine host and guests were previously accessible from virtual machine management and display an Information icon in the Systems Insight Manager console, verify that the host is licensed. If the host was licensed with a demo license, then the license might have expired. Obtain a permanent license for the host.
7. 8. To unregister the host immediately, click Run Now. You are prompted to confirm the unregistration. The unregistration process begins after confirmation. To unregister the virtual machine host from the command prompt, enter the virtual machine management installation folder\bin and enter the following command: vmcli -unregisterAgent where IP_address is the IP address of the previous virtual machine host.
VMotion fails because virtual machine host names are mismatched in Systems Insight Manager and vCenter Server Performing a VMotion can fail when Systems Insight Manager and vCenter Server discovers the virtual machine host name with different capitalization. When the migration is performed the following error appears: No, Live Move is not enabled. Stop the VM to enable other move options. To resolve this issue, be sure both virtual machine hosts have the same name using the same capitalization.
Error message Unknown to VMM appears when performing the copy operation on a virtual machine If the error message Unknown to VMM appears when performing the copy operation on a virtual machine, ensure that the virtual machine exists on the host. If the virtual machine has been deleted from the host, but the virtual machine node is still present in Systems Insight Manager, run the Identify Systems task on the virtual machine host from Options→Identify Systems in Systems Insight Manager.
• Linked disk • Differencing disk • Physical (RAW) disk Virtual machine files are not deleted after a move Insight Control virtual machine management does not delete virtual machine guest files after a move, enabling the virtual machine guest to be restored on the source host. This scenario occurs only with Xen virtual machine hosts not in other hypervisors.
are still uncleared events associated with the old database object, so it is renamed to the serial number of the virtual machine so that you can still view these events. After you have viewed and cleared all the events associated with the system, the events can be deleted from the database. Workaround Follow the naming restrictions for the complex that are outlined in the Naming Restrictions document and, if using Systems Insight Manager 5.1.0.
HP Systems Insight Manager console integration The virtual machine guest is not listed on the Systems Insight Manager All Systems page Be sure the virtual machine is configured properly for Systems Insight Manager identification. For more information, see the HP Systems Insight Manager User Guide Certain Insight Control operations cannot be performed on a virtual machine Be sure the virtual machine is configured properly for Systems Insight Manager identification.
9. 10. 11. 12. 13. Verify that the correct user name and password are entered in the Systems Sign-in credentials box of the guest. Verify that no virtual machine guest host names begin with the underscore character. To perform an Identity Systems event on the virtual machine guests, select Options→Discovery. On the Systems Insight Manager CMS, restart the WMI and WMI Mapper services.
To obtain the guide, see any of the following sources, and then select the HP ProLiant Servers Troubleshooting Guide. • The server-specific Documentation CD • The Business Support Center at http://www.hp.com/support. You can find the guide by using the navigation features on the HP website. • The Technical Documentation website at http://www.docs.hp.com. Select Enterprise Servers→ Workstations and Systems Hardware, and then select the appropriate server.
Support and other resources Information to collect before contacting HP Be sure to have the following information available before you contact HP: • Software product name • Hardware product model number • Operating system type and version • Applicable error message • Third-party hardware or software • Technical support registration number (if applicable) How to contact HP Use the following methods to contact HP technical support: • In the United States, see the Customer Service / Contact HP Uni
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A Virtual machine events Viewing virtual machine events To view all events related to virtual machine management, expand the Events→Shared directory in the left pane of the Systems Insight Manager console. Expand All Insight Control virtual machine management Events. To view events for a particular virtual machine host or guest, click the host or guest in the Systems Insight Manager console, and then click the Events tab. To view details about a specific event, click the Event Type entry.
Event type Description Virtual Machine Shutdown The virtual machine has shutdown information. Virtual Machine Move The virtual machine has moved information. Virtual Machine Backup The virtual machine has backed up information. Virtual Machine Answer Question The virtual machine has answered question information. Virtual Machine FastMove The virtual machine has recorded FastMove information. Virtual Machine Deactivate Template The virtual machine has deactivated a template.
Event type Description Drs Exit Standby Mode Failed Event Set the node attribute to enable its monitoring by Systems Insight Manager only if the node monitoring is suspended for that host. Virtual Machine Host entering standby mode The virtual machine host is entering the DPM-initiated Standby mode. Host entered standby mode. The virtual machine host has entered the DPM-initiated Standby mode.
Event type Description VmRenamedEvent This event records the renaming of a virtual machine. VmResourcePoolMovedEvent This event records when a virtual machine is moved from one resource pool to another. VmResourceReallocatedEvent This event records a change in resource allocation of a virtual machine. VmSuspendedEvent This event records when a virtual machine finished suspending. ResourcePoolCreatedEvent This event records when a new resource pool is created.
Event type Description vmmBackup This event records virtual machine backup information vmmCopy This event records virtual machine copy information vmmCreateTemplate This event records virtual machine create template information. vmmDeployTemplate This event records virtual machine deploy template information. vmmCreateLinkedClone This event records virtual machine create linked clone information. vmmFastmove This event records virtual machine SAN move information.
Event type Description vmmFinishCopy Insight Control virtual machine management has finished copying a virtual machine. vmmBeginCopy Insight Control virtual machine management has begun copying a virtual machine. vmmAbortMove Insight Control virtual machine management did not complete moving a virtual machine. vmmFinishMove Insight Control virtual machine management has finished moving a virtual machine.
B Error messages The following tables contain error messages that might appear when performing certain menu selections from Systems Insight Manager. To view the table displaying the error message, cause, and solution, press CTRL, and then click a menu selection. Table B-1 Configure→Virtual Machine→Register Virtual Machine Error message Cause No, View Details.
Table B-3 Deploy→ Virtual Machine→ Move Virtual Machine Error message Cause No, View Details. When you click View Details, the following message appears: The machine selected has not been discovered To run Identify system: as a server by Systems Insight Manager. 1. Select the Windows virtual machine host. Unknown or unmanaged appears on the 2. Select Options→Identify System. Systems Insight Manager System Page.
Error message Cause Solution No, not allowed by tool definition. The machine selected has not been discovered To run Identify system: as a server by Systems Insight Manager. 1. Select the Windows virtual machine host. Unknown or unmanaged appears on the 2. Select Options→Identify System. Systems Insight Manager System Page. For more information, see the HP Systems Insight Manager User Guide.
Table B-7 Configure→ Virtual Machine→ Unregister Virtual Machine Host Error message Cause No, View Details. When you click View Details, the following message appears: The machine selected has not been discovered To run Identify system: as a server by Systems Insight Manager. 1. Select the Windows virtual machine host. Unknown or unmanaged appears on the 2. Select Options→Identify System. Systems Insight Manager System Page.
Table B-9 Configure→ Virtual Machine→ Set Performance Thresholds Error message Cause No, View Details. When you click View Details, the following message appears: The machine selected has not been discovered To run Identify system: as a server by Systems Insight Manager. 1. Select the Windows virtual machine host. Unknown or unmanaged appears on the 2. Select Options→Identify System. Systems Insight Manager System Page.
Glossary Citrix XenServer A server virtualization platform that offers near bare-metal virtualization performance for virtualized server and client operating systems. Citrix XenServer uses the Xen hypervisor to virtualize each server on which it is installed, enabling each to host multiple Virtual Machines simultaneously with guaranteed performance. CMS Systems Insight Manager Central Management Server. guest operating system A distinct operating system instance running in a virtual machine.
Index A H accessing System Page, 19 adding licenses, 15 agentless management, 11 handling pre-failure events task does not progress, 32 host licensing, 15 HP Systems Insight Manager console system identification, 35 discovery, 35 events, 43 icons, 9 identify systems, 35 B blank page appears when launching virtual machine management from Systems Insight Manager, 30 C central management server retiring, 36 uninstalling, 36 Citrix XenServer configuring xapi port, 16 CMS (see central management server) col
Q Quick Move option not displayed in Move wizard, 34 R re-entering product ID, 36 server serial numbers, 36 recovery failed hosts, 21 setting up feature, 22 registering virtual machine hosts, 17 virtual machine hosts using CRA, 17 virtual machine hosts using menu, 17 Remote Desktop error occurs when clicked, 31 restoring using a backup fails, 31 retiring CMS, 36 S server re-entering serial number, 36 setting up recovery feature, 22 slow response time on virtual machine host, 31 SNMP properties, 35 status
mismatched in Systems Insight Manager and vCenter Server, 31 moving, 33 not listed on Systems Insight Manager All Systems page, 35 restarting, 33 shutting down, 33 viewing events, 43 virtual machine hosts appear multiple times in virtual machine management, 30 critical status displays, 29 discovery, 35 experience slow response time, 31 icons, 9 licensing, 15 registering, 17 registering using CRA, 17 registering using menu, 17 virtual machine management configuring on a Microsoft Cluster Server, 16 virtual m
