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VM Manager provides numerous
navigation aids, as shown in Figure 3-6, which is an example of a VM Manager view seen
from HP SIM using VSE Management software. | | | |  | NOTE: The VM Manager navigation aids available in a
particular view vary according to the view. The view in Figure 3-6 shows most of the navigation
aids that VM Manager provides. Missing from this view are navigation
buttons such as Previous and Next, visible in some of the Create Virtual Machines
wizard pages (discussed in “Creating Virtual Machines”). Certain VM Manager pages (such
as the Start Virtual Machine page) include OK and Cancel buttons, which
complete or cancel an action, returning you to the VM Manager view
from which you initiated the action. | | | | |
| 1 | Click the Go back link to return
to the previous view. | | | | | NOTE: Avoid using your browser's Back and Forward buttons in VM Manager. When you
use these buttons, VM Manager cannot identify that you have changed
to a different view. This can cause problems, including incorrect
display of objects selected in the current view. Instead, use the
links and navigation buttons provided by VM Manager. | | | | |
If you navigate from one VM Manager view to another
(for example, from VM Host view to VM Properties view), click the Go back link in the new view (and on any subsequent tabs
you navigate to in that same view) to return to the previous VM Manager
view. For example, if you navigate from the VM Host view to the VM
Properties view or to the Vswitch Properties view, clicking the Go back link returns you to the VM Host view. If you
navigate from the VM Properties view to the VM Host view or to the
Vswitch Properties view, clicking the Go back link returns you to the VM Properties view.Using VM Manager from HP SIM, if the VM Manager
view was accessed directly from Virtualization Manager, clicking the Go back link returns you to Virtualization Manager (as
indicated in Figure 3-6);
clicking the Go back link on any tab that you
navigate to in the same view also returns you to the Virtualization
Manager. For more information about returning to Virtualization Manager
from VM Manager (or, if you are using HP SMH, about returning to the
HP SMH Homepage), see “Returning to HP SIM/Virtualization Manager or the HP SMH Homepage”. | | 2 | Click a tab to change to another view. All VM
Manager tabs are described in “Using VM Manager Views and Tabs”. | | 3 | Click a menu in the menu bar beneath the tab title.
This displays additional information about the actions you can perform.
The VM Manager menu bar is described in “Using VM Manager Menus”. | | 4 | Click the top of a column of
a table (on or near the title of the column) to change which column
is driving the sort order of the table. Click the arrow in the selected
column to toggle between ascending and descending order. Not all columns
can drive the sort order. Hover your cursor over a column heading
to determine whether the column is selectable for sorting; the cursor
(pointer) changes according to the current pointer scheme configured
for your operating system (for example, when you hover over a selectable
column, your cursor might change from an arrow to a hand). In tables that are sortable, one column has a
darker grey background in the column heading and an ascending or descending
arrow in the same area. The dark grey color indicates that the column
is driving the sort order for all rows of data in the table. The arrow
indicates whether the column has been sorted in ascending or descending
order. Criteria for the order may be numeric or alphabetical. In Figure 3-6, the column that drives
the sorting order is the VM Name column, and the column is sorted
in ascending order. | | 5 | Click a check box next to an object that you want
to act on, then select the action from one of the VM Manager menus.
To perform an action on all the objects listed, select the box at
the top of the check box column (in the header row at the top of the
table). | | 6 | Click a link to an object (the object's name
forms the link) to move to a view of that object. For example, click
the virtual machine name link miney02 shown in Figure 3-6 to access the Virtual
Machine Properties page for virtual machine miney02. | | 7 | Using VM Manager with HP SIM and VSE Management
Software, you can click a utilization meter to view a snapshot of
HP Capacity Advisor historical data; this feature is not provided
when using VM Manager from HP SMH. For information about using
VM Manager to collect and view utilization data, see “Collecting and Viewing Utilization Data”. |
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