User guide

2 Using the HP ProLiant PRO Management Pack
This chapter includes information on using the HP ProLiant PRO Management Pack.
Operating with the PRO Tip dialog box
The HP ProLiant PRO Management Pack monitors Hyper-V hosts for hardware-related events. A
PRO Tip screen appears when one of the monitors in the HP ProLiant PRO Management Pack
detects a hardware event. Initially, the PRO Tip reports the alert data copied from Operations
Manager and displays the information in the SCVMM console.
The initial PRO Tip screen data includes:
• Name
Monitor name
• Description
Original NT event message of hardware events from HP Insight Management Agents
• Summary, Cause, and Resolution
The text for each of these fields is sourced from the Specific Monitor Rule Knowledge Base.
After a short period, the diagnostic script reports updated data to the PRO Tip fields as follows:
• Name: no update
• Description: no update
• Summary: Updated by the diagnostic script only if the PRO Tip can operate successfully.
• Cause: no update
• Resolution: no update
• View Script: Show implementation script source. (You cannot edit the script.)
• More Information: Appears if the PRO Tip can operate successfully, or displays an error
message if an error occurs for PRO Tip.
Implementing virtual machine migration
You can implement virtual machine migration from the PRO Tip dialog box. To implement virtual
machine migration, select Implement at the bottom of the PRO Tip dialog box. If the Automatically
implement PRO Tip option is selected on the PRO Properties, the PRO Tip dialog box disappears
after completing the migration process by the HP ProLiant PRO Management Pack. You can check
the progress of implementation at the Jobs pane on the management console.
The implementation process migrates all SCVMM running virtual machines from the failed host to
the most available host through the SCVMM placement algorithm. The implementation PowerShell
script recalculates the host rating from the SCVMM server at every virtual machine migration to
distribute virtual machines to multiple hosts.
The PowerShell script in the HP ProLiant PRO Management Pack uses the following migration
criteria:
• Migrates virtual machines inside a failover cluster using intra-cluster migration.
• Migrates virtual machines inside a host group on a LAN using network migration if the host
is not inside a failover cluster and the monitor reports the warning level.
• Reports a failure if the host is not inside a failover cluster and the monitor reports the critical
level. A network migration requires significant system resources and time period to run. A
critical state might require the server to immediately shut down, disrupting the virtual machine
migration and possibly leaving the servers in an indeterminate state. However, this setting
Operating with the PRO Tip dialog box 5