Virtual Machine Management Pack User Guide.pdf

HP ProLiant Essentials Virtualization Management Software

User Guide

Consisting of HP ProLiant Essentials Virtual Machine Management Pack and HP ProLiant Essentials Server Migration Pack

Part number: 380094-004

Fourth edition: September 2005

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Part number: 380094-004

Fourth edition: September 2005

Contents 2

Contents

About this guide

Where to go for additional help ................................................................................................................ 6

Telephone numbers .................................................................................................................................. 6

Introduction

Virtual Machine Management Pack ............................................................................................................ 7

Server Migration Pack .............................................................................................................................. 7

Infrastructure ........................................................................................................................................... 7

HP Systems Insight Manager console integration .......................................................................................... 8

Requirements

HP SIM CMS ........................................................................................................................................... 9

Virtual machine host ............................................................................................................................... 10

Virtual machine guest ............................................................................................................................. 10

Installation and configuration

Virtualization Management Software installation ........................................................................................ 11

Installing from the Management CD..................................................................................................... 11

Installing from the Web...................................................................................................................... 15

Installation locations .......................................................................................................................... 15

Setting up the virtual machine host ........................................................................................................... 15

Performing an HP SIM discovery ......................................................................................................... 15

Installing OpenSSH ........................................................................................................................... 15

Configuring OpenSSH....................................................................................................................... 16

Deploying the VMM agent ................................................................................................................. 16

Deploying the SMP agent................................................................................................................... 16

Post-installation configuration tasks ........................................................................................................... 16

Upgrading the VMM agent ................................................................................................................ 17

Configuring VMware VirtualCenter...................................................................................................... 17

Setting up virtual machine guests ............................................................................................................. 17

Installing Microsoft Virtual Server Additions .......................................................................................... 17

Licensing

Adding licenses ..................................................................................................................................... 18

Virtual Machine Management Pack licensing............................................................................................. 18

Free licenses..................................................................................................................................... 18

Licensing preparation ........................................................................................................................ 18

Licensing options............................................................................................................................... 18

Applying licenses to virtual machine hosts ............................................................................................ 19

Server Migration Pack licensing ............................................................................................................... 19

Free licenses..................................................................................................................................... 19

Licensing requirements ....................................................................................................................... 19

Licensing options............................................................................................................................... 19

Using the Virtual Machine Management Pack

Virtual machine host ............................................................................................................................... 21

Virtual machine guest ............................................................................................................................. 22

Using the Virtual Machine Management Pack tools and controls ............................................................. 23

Starting or resuming a virtual machine guest......................................................................................... 23

Shutting down or stopping a virtual machine guest ................................................................................ 24

Pausing a virtual machine guest .......................................................................................................... 24

Resetting or restarting a virtual machine guest....................................................................................... 24

Copying a virtual machine guest ......................................................................................................... 25

Moving a virtual machine guest .......................................................................................................... 26

Creating a virtual machine guest template ............................................................................................ 27

Deploying a virtual machine guest template.......................................................................................... 27

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Creating a virtual machine guest backup.............................................................................................. 28

Restoring a virtual machine guest backup ............................................................................................. 29

Recovering virtual machines of a failed host ......................................................................................... 29

Setting alternate virtual machine hosts (VMware ESX Server only)............................................................ 29

Launching the remote console ............................................................................................................. 30

Restarting the VMM agent .................................................................................................................. 30

Setting the performance threshold ....................................................................................................... 30

Performance information ......................................................................................................................... 31

Virtual machine host .......................................................................................................................... 31

Virtual machine guest ........................................................................................................................ 32

Using the Server Migration Pack

Physical-to-virtual migrations .................................................................................................................... 34

Preparing for a P2V migration ............................................................................................................ 34

Performing a P2V migration ............................................................................................................... 35

Post-migration tasks ........................................................................................................................... 36

Virtual-to-virtual migrations ...................................................................................................................... 36

Preparing for a V2V migration............................................................................................................ 36

Performing V2V migrations................................................................................................................. 38

Post-migration tasks ........................................................................................................................... 38

Virtual-to-physical migrations ................................................................................................................... 39

Prerequisites for V2P migrations .......................................................................................................... 39

Viewing virtual machine events

Troubleshooting

Installation ............................................................................................................................................ 44

Virtualization Management Software cannot be installed on a virtual machine .......................................... 44

In an environment using multiple HP SIM CMSs, Virtualization Management Software can only be

installed on one CMS .................................................................................................................. 44

“Systems Insight Manager or database service is not started properly. Installation fails to proceed.

Uninstall manually when HP SIM and Database services are running properly”.................................... 44

Some menus are not displayed in the toolbars ...................................................................................... 44

Uninstalling Virtualization Management Software.................................................................................. 44

Configuration ........................................................................................................................................ 45

Virtual Machine Management Pack/Server Migration Pack menu items are not removed from the HP SIM

toolbar with Virtual Machine Management Pack/Server Migration Pack uninstallation .......................... 45

The Virtual Machine Management Pack might not detect virtual machines located on mapped network

drives ......................................................................................................................................... 45

Configuring the Virtual Machine Management Pack and Server Migration Pack with a firewall ................... 46

Microsoft DNS Server might not map the host name to DHCP-generated IP addresses ................................ 46

VMM/SMP agent .................................................................................................................................. 47

VMM agent installation fails ............................................................................................................... 47

VMM agent registration fails on virtual machine host configured with multiple IP addresses ........................ 47

The virtual machine host must be re-registered if the IP address or name of the virtual machine host is

changed .................................................................................................................................... 48

SMP agent deployment fails during a P2V migration.............................................................................. 48

The Virtual Machine Management Pack .................................................................................................... 49

Virtual machine host and guests do not appear in the Virtual Machine Management Pack.......................... 49

The Virtual Machine Management Pack does not display the system name, system IP address, and

operating system.......................................................................................................................... 49

Critical status is displayed for a virtual machine host in the Virtual Machine Management Pack................... 49

A blank page appears when launching the Virtual Machine Management Pack from HP SIM ..................... 49

Virtual machine status is not updated ................................................................................................... 49

Virtual machine guest information becomes inaccessible from the Virtual Machine Management Pack.......... 49

A virtual machine host appears in the Virtual Machine Management Pack multiple times ............................ 50

The Virtual Machine Management Pack displays “No virtualization layer available for this host” ................ 50

VMM host does not use demo key....................................................................................................... 50

Virtual Machine Management Pack functions............................................................................................. 50

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Using a virtual machine host not managed by the Virtual Machine Management Pack as a

template/backup repository .......................................................................................................... 50

“HTTP ERROR: 500 Internal Server Error” appears during a Virtual Machine Management Pack move

or copy operation ........................................................................................................................ 50

The Virtual Machine Management Pack cannot move virtual machines with certain disk types..................... 50

Virtual machine files are not deleted after a move ................................................................................. 51

Virtual machine devices might not be available after a copy or move ...................................................... 51

A shutdown or restart operation fails or does not complete ..................................................................... 51

Launching the remote console from Virtual Machine Management Pack might fail ..................................... 51

P2V, V2V, and V2P migration wizard ...................................................................................................... 51

Blank page displays when launching the Server Migration Pack from HP SIM ........................................... 51

V2V migration wizard is blank ........................................................................................................... 51

“Communication has been lost with the SMP Service” message appears .................................................. 51

P2V migration wizard displays “N/A” in System Name, Operating System, and Model columns ................ 52

The server is not displayed on the P2V wizard. Select Source Physical Machine screen.............................. 52

Virtual machine guest is not displayed on the V2V wizard Select Source VM screen .................................. 52

P2V, V2V, and V2P migration functions .................................................................................................... 52

P2V migration does not start after confirmation. The event log continuously displays “Operation Migration

waiting for connection to source”................................................................................................... 52

“Unable to connect to the source physical server” error message displays in the P2V migration wizard........ 52

Queued migrations fail ...................................................................................................................... 53

Chkdsk fails to check an NTFS volume in a migrated virtual machine guest when using the

Windows NT 4.0 operating system ................................................................................................ 53

Drive letters are not the same in the migrated virtual machine guest after migration ................................... 53

The Server Migration Pack cannot perform V2V migrations on virtual machine guests with certain

disk types ................................................................................................................................... 54

HP SIM console integration ..................................................................................................................... 54

The HP SIM console does not identify a server as a virtual machine host .................................................. 54

The HP SIM console does not discover a virtual machine host or guest ..................................................... 54

The HP SIM console identifies a virtual machine guest as an Unknown or Unmanaged device..................... 54

Linux virtual machine guest association is not displayed in the HP SIM console ......................................... 54

Additional resources............................................................................................................................... 55

Glossary

Index

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