HP Insight Control Virtual Machine Management 7.
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Contents 1 Introduction...............................................................................................7 Overview................................................................................................................................7 Infrastructure............................................................................................................................7 Systems Insight Manager console integration.......................................................................
Handling semi-automatic prefailure events with the vCenter Server DRS cluster enabled in the vCenter Server...................................................................................................................25 Handling automatic prefailure events by using the Set Alternate Virtual Machine Host feature......25 Handling semi-automatic events using the Set Alternate Virtual Machine Host feature..................26 Setting alternate hosts...........................................................
Insight Control virtual machine management cannot move virtual machines with certain disk types................................................................................................................................34 Virtual machine files are not deleted after a move for Xen hypervisors.......................................34 Virtual machine devices might not be available after a copy or move.......................................35 Launching the remote console from VMM console might fail.........
New and changed information in this edition.............................................................................43 Related information.................................................................................................................43 Typographic conventions.........................................................................................................43 8 Documentation feedback...........................................................................
1 Introduction Overview HP Insight Control virtual machine management (VMM) adds virtual machine management capability within HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM).
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 Virtual machine host icons displayed in the VM column Icon Status The virtual machine host is licensed and is communicating with VMM.
Table 2 Virtual machine guest icons displayed in the VM column (continued) Icon Status The virtual machine guest is associated with a licensed virtual machine host, but the guest is not started. The VM Guest is associated with an unlicensed VM Host. The VM column also displays VME Server status. To navigate to the VME Server credentials user interface, select Options→VME Options→View VME Settings.
characters for hosts that do not require VMM agents to be installed (ESX4.x/ESXi4.x/Hyper-V/ESXi 5.x).
2 Key concepts Heterogeneous environment A heterogeneous environment hosts virtualization layers, such as VMware ESX, Hyper-V, and so on. Insight Control virtual machine management supports heterogeneity by providing a uniform way to access and manage all the hypervisors. For information about the supported hypervisors, see the HP Insight Management Support Matrix available at www.hp.com/go/insightcontrol/docs.
3 Initial setup Licensing Licensing VMM through the HP Insight Control License Manager NOTE: later. Insight Control virtual machine management 7.0 or later works only with HP SIM 7.0 or To add or deploy license keys, you must have HP SIM administrative rights. The standard procedure for licensing VMM is to purchase and apply HP Insight Control licenses. For more information or to purchase licenses, see http://www.hp.com/go/insightcontrol.
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 relicensed with another demo key. If a selected product has not been registered with License Manager, the following message is displayed: License Manager cannot process licenses for the selected product for one of two possible reasons: For products where licensing information is managed by Systems Insight Manager, the Apply Licenses page appears.
Updating the HP SIM certificate on CMS Insight Control virtual machine management uses an HP SIM certificate for all its communication with HP SIM. Should changes be made to the HP SIM certificate, you must restart the Insight Control virtual machine management service to use the updated certificate.
To manually register the virtual machine hosts in a Windows environment: 1. From an account with administrative privileges, sign in to HP SIM on the Systems Insight Manager CMS. 2. Access the installation bin directory from the default path:C:\Program Files\HP\Insight Control virtual machine management\bin 3. From the CMS, access the installation bin directory from the following path:C:\Program Files\HP\Insight Control virtual machine management\bin 4.
4 Using Insight Control virtual machine management This chapter provides an overview of server virtualization management using the VMM. You can perform all VMM 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, or Xen on RHEL or SLES.
Table 5 Icons and tasks Icon Function Start/resume Shutdown/stop Pause Reset/restart The following tables lists supported features for various virtualization layers. Table 6 Supported Insight Control virtual machine management features in various virtualization layers Features HP HP HP HP Microsoft Microsoft Xen Xen integrated integrated integrated integrated Hyper-V Hyper-V 3 distribution distribution ESXi / ESXi ESXi ESXi / R2 server on RHEL on SLES VMware 5.0/5.11 5.51 VMware server ESX 4.1 ESX 4.
Table 6 Supported Insight Control virtual machine management features in various virtualization layers (continued) Features HP HP HP HP Microsoft Microsoft Xen Xen integrated integrated integrated integrated Hyper-V Hyper-V 3 distribution distribution ESXi / ESXi ESXi ESXi / R2 server on RHEL on SLES VMware 5.0/5.11 5.51 VMware server ESX 4.1 ESX 4.
1. From the left pane of the HP SIM screen, click Customize, and then click New. The New Collection screen appears. 2. 3. Click 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 tab indicate the percentage of a resource that has been consumed.
5 Managing virtual machines Making a backup of the virtual machine management database You must perform a backup of the VMM database enable recovery of the configuration files/data if the application crashes.
set the RequireCertificate parameter to 1 in thehpvmm.conf file, found in the following location: /bin/hpvmm.
6. For 1. 2. 3. 4. each target server, perform these steps: Select the certificate. Click Export... to launch the Certificate Export Wizard. Click Next to continue. The Export File Format dialog box is displayed. Enter a filename along with the complete path of the directory. For example, C:\ VMHost-Certs\servername.cer NOTE: If you do not enter the complete path, the certificate is stored in your Documents and Settings folder. 5. Click Next to continue with the export.
1. Add or create the following to the hpvmmsvc.log4j file in the %VMM_INSTALL_FLODER%\ bin\ location as %VMM_INSTALL_FLODER%\bin\hpvmmsvc.log4j: #******************************************************************** #Enabling windows NT Events for Insight Control virtual machine management Service #******************************************************************** #DEBUG < INFO < WARN < ERROR < FATAL log4j.rootLogger=DEBUG, stdout, NTE # Output into windows event log4j.appender.NTE=org.apache.
Handling automatic prefailure events To handle automatic prefailure events, perform the following: 1. Click Deploy→Virtual Machine→Handle Virtual Machine Host Prefailure Events. 2. In Step 1, Select the target events, select the PreFailure Events collection that has been created, then click Apply. 3. Click Add System Filters.... 4. Select the Collection under Add filters by selecting from:. 5. Select the system collection that was created. 6. Click Apply, then Next. The Confirm Details screen appears. 7.
To handle automatic prefailure events by using the Set Alternate Virtual Machine Host feature, configure prefailure handling using the steps described in Handling automatic prefailure events. When any prefailure events are generated on any of the systems in the System Collection - Prefailure VMware ESX Collection, the virtual machines running on this host are recovered to the alternate host.
7. 8. 9. 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, select 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 customization fails during template deployment During template deployment of VMs in Windows Hyper-V server 2008 R2 SP1, Windows Hyper-V server 2008 SP2 on ProLiant servers, the virtual network manager fails to load the Hyper-V manager through the import and export methods. This causes failure of virtual machine customization and the IO service request. To resolve this issue, you must install HP NCU V 10.
Changing the SCVMM server credentials is not reflected in the UI VMM status icon You must restart the SCVMM/VMM service or server and register the SCVMM server in the VME tab with new credentials after changing the password. The SCVMM related operations continue to work and the VMM status icon does not change until the SVMM service is restarted. Upgrading SCVMM 2008 to SCVMM 2012 and SCVMM 2012 SP1 to SCVMM 2012 R2 To upgrade SCVMM: 1.
SCVMM server. If the type of IndigoTcpPort is different from REG_DWORD, then delete the existing item and create a new item with type as REG_DWORD, and then assign the value 1fa4. User does not have the option to change the VM name in the Select VM Backup Repository Location step of the create backup wizard. VMM creates a backup of the VM that is in use and names it VM_name . You do not have to explicitly perform a backup and specify the backup name.
• Backing up a virtual machine guest • Defining the performance threshold • Granting authorizations The only operations that can be performed are creating templates. To have full functionality, the virtual machine must be discovered. Critical status appears for a virtual machine host in VMM Critical status might appear when a virtual machine host is unavailable.
Live Move fails after SAN move If a SAN move is performed with vCenter Server managing the source and target hosts, a duplicate entry is created in vCenter Server after the migration is complete. An attempt to perform a Live Move fails with the following error: Live Move of VM [virtual machine name] to [source virtual machine] Live move in progress. Live Move of VM failed. VM changed state before it could be migrated.
not retrieve mounted diskdrive details when customizing the VM.To resolve this issue, you must create the bootdisk on ide0:0. Limitation from Virtual Center to enable or disable HotCPUPlug and HotMemoryPlug Virtual Center (VC) UI does not allow enabling Memory or CPU Hot Plug for the VM (ESX), which is in the powered on state. Insight Control virtual machine management supports enabling or disabling the Memory and CPU Hot Plug, irrespective of the on or off state of the VM power.
has been lost with the HP VMM service. Check if the HP VMM service is running. However, the result of the operation on the virtual machine is hypervisor dependent and may succeed. If you encounter a failure from both VMM and from the hypervisor end, you may need to manually remove the unwanted resources such, as virtual machine files and disks, on the hypervisor.
Virtual machine devices might not be available after a copy or move Reconfigure the virtual network connections on the moved or copied virtual machine guest. Launching the remote console from VMM console might fail All virtual machine host port numbers are changed when you modify the configuration setting. Verify the installation of VMware Management Interface software, indicated by the presence of the VMware Management Interface directory within the VMware installation directory.
To resolve this issue, avoid deploying SCVMM HA template on standalone host, and delete empty folders when they are created. VMM installation fails when VMM installation directory is different with respect to SIM Installation of VMM fails if you try to install it using different installation directory with respect to SIM. VMM installation log file (ICvirt.log) displays the following error message: Failed to populate database schema. Click "OK" to cancel the installation.
VMM does not support remote WMI mapper configuration with only IPv6 address VMM does not support and communicate to remote WMI mapper when the mapper is configured on a machine with IPv6 address. To resolve this issue, you must configure the WMI Mapper on either an IPv4 or a dual address machine.
To resolve this issue, set the IPv4 address manually on the guest. IPv6 Customization fails on Microsoft Windows 2003 systems This is because Microsoft Windows 2003 does not support IPv6 customization. CPU properties for powered on VM fails to update In ESX, when you enable the Hot ADD CPU feature on a NON-OS VM, and try to update the CPU properties for a powered on VM, it fails to update. This happens from both VCenter UI and ViSDK.
HP Systems Insight Manager console integration The virtual machine guest is not listed on the HP SIM All Systems page Be sure the virtual machine is configured properly for HP SIM 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 HP SIM identification. For more information, see the HP Systems Insight Manager User Guide.
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 HP SIM CMS, restart the WMI and WMI Mapper services. If the issue appears to be specific to one virtual machine guest, restart the WMI service on the specific virtual machine.
To obtain the guide, see any of the following sources: • 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://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/ TechSupport/Home.jsp?lang=en&cc=us. Select Enterprise Servers→ Workstations and Systems Hardware, and then select the appropriate server.
7 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 U
The service also provides access to software updates and reference manuals in electronic form as they are made available from HP. With this service, Insight Management customers benefit from expedited problem resolution as well as proactive notification and delivery of software updates. For more information about this service, see the following website: http://www.hp.com/services/insight. Registration for this service takes place following online redemption of the license certificate.
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A Virtual machine events Viewing virtual machine events To view all events related to VMM, expand the Events→Shared directory in the left pane of the HP SIM 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 HP SIM console, and then click the Events tab. To view details about a specific event, click the Event Type entry.
Table 7 s/b VMM or s/b Insight Control virtual machine management events (continued) Event type Description Abort Virtual Machine Copy Insight Control virtual machine management did not complete copying a virtual machine. Finish Virtual Machine Copy Insight Control virtual machine management has finished copying a virtual machine. Virtual Machine Suspend The virtual machine has suspended information. Virtual Machine Shutdown The virtual machine has shut down information.
Table 7 s/b VMM or s/b Insight Control virtual machine management events (continued) Event type Description Entered Standby Mode Event This event is received when you manually put the host in Standby mode. Insight Control virtual machine management does not listen to this event. Exiting Standby Mode Event This event is received when you manually power on the host that is in Standby mode. Insight Control virtual machine management does not listen to this event.
Table 8 vCenter and VMware ESX Server host events (continued) Event type Description DrsVmMigrateEvent A virtual machine migration that was recommended by DRS occurred. VmOrphanedEvent This event records a virtual machine for which no host is responsible. VmPoweredOffEvent This event records when a virtual machine finished powering off. VmPoweredOnEvent This event records when a virtual machine finished powering on. VmReconfiguredEvent A reconfiguration of the virtual machine occurred.
Table 8 vCenter and VMware ESX Server host events (continued) 50 Event type Description Virtual Machine Host exited standby mode The VM Host has exited from the DPM-initiated Standby mode successfully. vmmControl This event records virtual machine control information. vmmAnswer This event records virtual machine answer question information. vmmPause This event records virtual machine pause information. vmmReset This event records virtual machine reset information.
Table 8 vCenter and VMware ESX Server host events (continued) Event type Description vmmVMThreshold Virtual machine guest processor event. vmmHostThreshold Virtual machine host processor event. vmmVMCpuThreshold Virtual machine guest processor threshold event. vmmHostCpuThreshold Virtual machine host processor threshold event. vmmVMMemoryThreshold Virtual machine guest memory utilization threshold event. vmmHostMemoryThreshold Virtual machine host memory utilization threshold event.
B Error messages The following tables contain error messages that might appear when performing certain menu selections from HP SIM. To view the table displaying the error message, cause, and solution, press CTRL, and then click a menu selection. Table 9 Configure→Virtual Machine→Register Virtual Machine Error message Cause No, View Details. When you click View Details, the following message appears: The machine selected has not been discovered as a server by HP SIM. Solution 1.
Table 11 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 as a server by HP SIM. Solution To run Identify system: 1. Select the Windows virtual machine host. Unknown or unmanaged appears on the 2. Select Options→Identify System. HP SIM System Page.
Table 12 Deploy→ Virtual Machine→ Handle VM host Prefailure Events (continued) Error message Cause Solution Virtual Machine Host does not appear as the system subtype on the machine Systempage. For more information, see the HP Systems Insight Manager User Guide . Select a virtual machine host. Table 13 Deploy→ Virtual Machine→ Backups→ Create Virtual Machine Backup Error message Cause No, View Details.
Table 15 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 as a server by HP SIM. No, not allowed by tool definition. The machine selected has not been discovered as a server by HP SIM. Solution 1. Select the Windows virtual machine host. Unknown or unmanaged appears on the 2. Select Options→Identify System. This tool cannot run HP SIM System Page.
Table 17 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 as a server by HP SIM. No, not allowed by tool definition. The machine selected has not been discovered as a server by HP SIM. Solution 1. Select the Windows virtual machine host. Unknown or unmanaged appears on the 2. Select Options→Identify System. This tool cannot run HP SIM System Page.
Glossary CMS HP Systems Insight Manager Central Management Server. guest operating system A distinct operating system instance running in a virtual machine. host operating system An operating system that is the foundation for a virtual machine. HP Systems Insight Manager Systems Insight Manager. hypervisor A hypervisor allows multiple operating systems to run concurrently on a host computer. Examples of hypervisors are VMware ESX, Hyper-V, and so on.
Index A accessing System Page, 16 adding licenses, 12 agentless management, 9 B blank page appears when launching VMM from HP SIM, 31 C central management server retiring, 40 uninstalling, 40 CMS see central management server color codes, performance, 20 components, VMM, 7 configuration SNMP properties, 39 troubleshooting, 40 configuring polling frequency for virtual machine status checks, 18 WMI Mapper proxy, 13 controls, Insight Control virtual machine management, 16 copied Xen virtual machine guest doe
error occurs when clicked, 32 restoring using a backup fails, 32 retiring CMS, 40 S server re-entering serial number, 40 slow response time on virtual machine host, 32 SNMP properties, 39 status column icons, 7 support how to contact HP, 42 warranty information, 42 system information not displayed, 30 System Page accessing, 16 overview, 16 Systems Insight Manager console system identification, 39 discovery, 39 events, 46 icons, 7 identify systems, 39 T tools, Insight Control virtual machine management, 16
