Using VM Manager Views and Tabs

Goes back to the previous view, in this case Virtualization Manager. If you accessed the VM Host view from another VM Manager view (such as the VM Properties view), the link returns you to that previous view. In HP SMH, when you first access this page from HP SMH, the link is not provided. The link appears whenever you move from one VM Manager view to another (such as from VM Properties view to VM Host view, in which case the Go back to Integrity Virtual Machines Manager: Manage VM link appears on the VM Host view).

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Updates the data displayed on this page. In general, VM Manager tabbed view screens are refreshed automatically at regular intervals, and VM Manager screens that display configuration data are updated instantaneously when you use VM Manager to change the related configuration parameters. However, when changes to the virtual machine I/O configuration are made using tools other than VM Manager (such as adding or removing I/O devices by using the VM Host command line), the updated configuration data is not shown until the screen is refreshed.

Describes resources in the VM Host system.

Describes the status of virtual machines in the VM Host system and identifies external managers. If VM Host virtual machines are being managed by gWLM or HP Serviceguard, the External Managers field displays gWLM or Serviceguard. Under HP SIM/VSE Management Software, if virtual machines are managed by gWLM, the field provides a hyperlink to gWLM. Under HP SMH, if virtual machines are being managed by gWLM, the field identifies the Central Management Server (CMS) on which gWLM is running and provides a hyperlink to the HP SIM login screen (you cannot modify gWLM policies from HP SMH). In either case (using VM Manager under VSE Software Management or HP SMH), if the virtual machines are not being managed by gWLM or HP Serviceguard, this field displays (none).

Summarizes resource utilization for the VM Host system. Meters display data retrieved by the WBEM Utilization provider. The data is a 5-minute average that is calculated and updated on 5-minute boundaries. If the utilization cannot be displayed, the utilization meter is dimmed and a label indicates the probable cause. For a description of meter labels, see “Utilization Meter Status/Error Information”.

Goes back to the previous view, in this case Virtualization Manager. If you accessed the VM Host view from another VM Manager view (such as the VM Properties view), the link returns you to that previous view. In HP SMH, when you first access this page from HP SMH, the link is not provided. The link appears whenever you move from one VM Manager view to another (such as from VM Properties view to VM Host view, in which case the Go back to Integrity Virtual Machines Manager: Manage VM link appears on the VM Host view).

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Updates the data displayed on this page. In general, VM Manager tabbed view screens are refreshed automatically at regular intervals, and VM Manager screens that display configuration data are updated instantaneously when you use VM Manager to change the related configuration parameters.

Allows you to perform an action on the virtual machine. Select the box for a specific virtual machine, then select an action from one of the menus available on the VM Manager menu bar. To perform an action on all the virtual machines, select the box in the header row.

Displays information about the virtual machine by taking you to the VM Properties General tab.

Utilization meters (bar graphs) display utilization data. This one provides memory utilization data. Other meters display data about virtual machine vCPU utilization, disk I/O, network I/O, and VM Host CPU utilization. (In Figure 3-9, the virtual machine information table is only partially visible; some utilization meters are not visible. To see all the utilization meters in the full-width view, see Figure 3-10.) The meter data is a 5-minute average that is calculated and updated on 5-minute boundaries. If the data cannot be displayed, the meter is dimmed and a label indicates the probable cause. For a description of meter labels, see “Utilization Meter Status/Error Information”.

Goes back to the previous view, in this case the Virtualization Manager. If you accessed the VM Host view from another VM Manager view (such as the VM Properties view), the link returns you to that previous view. In HP SMH, when you first access this page from HP SMH, the link is not provided. The link appears whenever you move from one VM Manager view to another (such as from VM Properties view to VM Host view, in which case the Go back to Integrity Virtual Machines Manager: Manage VM link appears on the VM Host view).

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Updates the data displayed on this page. In general, VM Manager tabbed view screens are refreshed automatically at regular intervals, and VM Manager screens that display configuration data are updated instantaneously when you use VM Manager to change the related configuration parameters. However, when changes to the virtual machine I/O configuration are made using tools other than VM Manager (such as adding or removing I/O devices by using the VM Host command line), the updated configuration data is not shown until the screen is refreshed.

Allows you to perform an action on the virtual switches. Select the box for a specific virtual switch, then an action from one of the menus available on the VM Manager menu bar. To perform an action on all the virtual switches, select the box in the header row.

Displays information about the virtual switch by taking you to the Vswitch Properties General tab.

Indicates whether the physical backing device supports Accelerated Virtual Input/Output (AVIO). AVIO is supported on HP Integrity VM version 3.5 or later. For each virtual machine containing an AVIO device, the VM Host OS and the guest OS must support AVIO. For more information about AVIO requirements, see “Creating Virtual Switches” in this manual. In addition, see the HP Integrity Virtual Machines Installation, Configuration, and Administration manual.

Goes back to the previous view, in this case Virtualization Manager. If you accessed the VM Host view from another VM Manager view (such as the VM Properties view), the link returns you to that previous view. In HP SMH, when you first access this page from HP SMH, the link is not provided. The link appears whenever you move from one VM Manager view to another (such as from VM Properties view to VM Host view, in which case the Go back to Integrity Virtual Machines Manager: Manage VM link appears on the VM Host view).

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Updates the data displayed on this page. In general, VM Manager tabbed view screens are refreshed automatically at regular intervals, and VM Manager screens that display configuration data are updated instantaneously when you use VM Manager to change the related configuration parameters. However, when changes to the virtual machine I/O configuration are made using tools other than VM Manager (such as adding or removing I/O devices by using the VM Host command line), the updated configuration data is not shown until the screen is refreshed.

Allows you to perform an action on the virtual machine. Select the box for the virtual machine, then select an action from one of the menus available on the VM Manager menu bar.

Clicking the Focus link limits the display to only those network devices associated with the selected object (in this instance, the devices associated with bitsy00) and the objects directly connected to it. All other devices are not displayed. To return to the original view, click the Show All link visible beneath the VM Manager menu bar on the focused page.

Displays detailed information about the virtual machine by taking you to the VM Properties General tab.

The utilization meter (bar graph) displays network I/O throughput data, if available. The data is a 5-minute average that is calculated and updated on 5-minute boundaries. If the data cannot be displayed, the meter is dimmed (as in the meter in the next box below) and a label indicates the probable cause. For a description of meter labels, see “Utilization Meter Status/Error Information”.

Displays the type of network interface such as emulated LAN (displayed here as “LAN”) or Accelerated Virtual Input/Output LAN (displayed as “AVIO LAN,” as for the next network device shown in the figure).

Indicates by color coding that matching components are related.

Goes back to the previous view, in this case Virtualization Manager. If you accessed the VM Host view from another VM Manager view (such as the VM Properties view), the link returns you to that previous view. In HP SMH, when you first access this page from HP SMH, the link is not provided. The link appears whenever you move from one VM Manager view to another (such as from VM Properties view to VM Host view, in which case the Go back to Integrity Virtual Machines Manager: Manage VM link appears on the VM Host view).

With the Show physical host bus adapters check box selected (as in this example), the view includes the complete storage bus structure, host bus adapters, and multipath storage configurations. This view may take longer to render and can be more challenging for discerning the associations between virtual machines and devices, especially when many multipath storage devices exist on the VM Host. By default (the check box being unselected), the view is simpler, showing only the specific storage devices that are being used as backing devices. For a multipath device, the simple view shows only the device special file (DSF) path, as specified when the virtual storage device was created. In contrast, the complex view displays all DSF versions of the same device, including (on an HP-UX 11i v3 VM Host) the persistent DSF. The complex view is identical to the view displayed by the VM Host Storage tab in earlier versions of VM Manager. For more information, see the VM Manager VM Host Storage tab help topic.

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Updates the data displayed on this page. In general, VM Manager tabbed view screens are refreshed automatically at regular intervals, and VM Manager screens that display configuration data are updated instantaneously when you use VM Manager to change the related configuration parameters. However, when changes to the virtual machine I/O configuration are made using tools other than VM Manager (such as adding or removing I/O devices by using the VM Host command line), the updated configuration data is not shown until the screen is refreshed.

Allows you to perform an action on the virtual machine. Select the box for the virtual machine, then select an action from one of the menus available on the VM Manager menu bar.

Clicking the Focus link limits the display to only those storage devices associated with the selected object (in this instance, the devices associated with bitsy00) and the objects directly connected to it. All other devices are not displayed. To return to the original view, click the Show All link visible beneath the VM Manager menu bar on the focused page.

Displays detailed information about the virtual machine by taking you to the VM Properties General tab.

Displays the type of storage device interface and device, such as emulated SCSI DVD (labeled SCSI DVD, as in this instance) or Accelerated Virtual Input/Output disk (labeled AVIO Disk, as for the preceding device shown in the figure).

Indicates by color coding that matching components are related.

The meter (bar graph) displays storage I/O throughput data, if available. The data is a 5-minute average that is calculated and updated on 5-minute boundaries. If the data cannot be displayed, the meter is dimmed (as in the meter underneath this one) and a label indicates the probable cause. For a description of meter labels, see “Utilization Meter Status/Error Information”.

The color-coded line links the two representations of the storage device, one with the agile address and the other with the legacy address. The line indicates that they are two different representations of the same physical device. Multiple representations are displayed only if the Show physical host bus adapters check box is selected, as in Figure 3-13.

Goes back to the previous view, in this case the VM Manager VM Host view. When you access the VM Properties view from another VM Manager view (such as the VM Host view), the link returns you to that previous view. If you had accessed the VM view directly from Virtualization Manager, the link returns you to Virtualization Manager. In HP SMH, when you first access this page from HP SMH, the link is not provided. The link is visible whenever you move from one VM Manager view to another (such as from VM Host view to VM Properties view, in which case the Go back to Integrity Virtual Machines Manager: Manage Host link is visible on the VM Properties view).

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Updates the data displayed on this page. In general, VM Manager tabbed view screens are refreshed automatically at regular intervals, and VM Manager screens that display configuration data are updated instantaneously when you use VM Manager to change the related configuration parameters.

Lists virtual machine identification, status, and general configuration details. To update status information, click Refresh Data. If supported by the version of Integrity VM running on the VM Host, the Graceful Stop Timeout is displayed, as in this screen example. The timeout value is set by using the hpvmmodify command at the VM Host command line.

Lists information about virtual CPU. If supported by the version of Integrity VM running on the VM Host, the minimum and maximum number of virtual CPUs and a cap for the entitlement is displayed, as in this screen example.

Lists information about virtual machine memory. If the guest operating system supports dynamic memory, the information about dynamic memory parameters is displayed.

Lists information about external management tools or software such as gWLM or HP Serviceguard. Describes the status

Lists utilization information for the virtual machine. The data is a 5-minute average that is calculated and updated on 5-minute boundaries. If the data cannot be displayed, the meter is dimmed and a label indicates the probable cause. For a description of meter labels, see “Utilization Meter Status/Error Information”.

Lists authorization information.

Goes back to the previous view, in this case the VM Manager VM Host view. When you access the VM Properties view from another VM Manager view (such as the VM Host view), the link returns you to that previous view. If you had accessed the VM Properties view directly from Virtualization Manager, the link returns you to Virtualization Manager. In HP SMH, when you first access this page from HP SMH, the link is not provided. The link appears whenever you move from one VM Manager view to another (such as from VM Host view to VM Properties view, in which case the Go back to Integrity Virtual Machines Manager: Manage Host link appears on the VM Properties view).

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Updates the data displayed on this page. In general, VM Manager tabbed view screens are refreshed automatically at regular intervals, and VM Manager screens that display configuration data are updated instantaneously when you use VM Manager to change the related configuration parameters. However, when changes to the virtual machine I/O configuration are made using tools other than VM Manager (such as adding or removing I/O devices by using the VM Host command line), the updated configuration data is not shown until the screen is refreshed.

Displays the type of network interface such as emulated LAN (displayed here as “LAN” ) or Accelerated Virtual Input/Output LAN (displayed as “AVIO LAN,” as for the next network device shown in the figure).

Clicking the Focus link limits the display to only those network devices associated with the selected object (in this instance, the devices associated with swlan0, port 2) and the objects directly connected to it. All other devices are not displayed. To return to the original view, click the Show All link visible beneath the VM Manager menu bar on the focused page.

The meter (bar graph) displays network I/O throughput data, if available. The data is a 5-minute average that is calculated and updated on 5-minute boundaries. If the data cannot be displayed, the meter is dimmed as in this example, and a label indicates the probable cause. For a description of meter labels, see “Utilization Meter Status/Error Information”.

Indicates by color coding that matching components are related.

Goes back to the previous view, in this case the VM Host view. If you accessed the VM Properties view from Virtualization Manager, the link returns you to Virtualization Manager. In HP SMH, when you first access this page from HP SMH, the link is not provided. The link appears whenever you move from one VM Manager view to another (such as from VM Host view to VM Properties view, in which case the Go back to Integrity Virtual Machines Manager: Manage Host link appears on the VM Properties view).

With the Show physical host bus adapters check box selected (as in this example), the view includes the complete storage bus structure, host bus adapters, and multipath storage configurations. This view may take longer to render and can be more challenging for discerning the associations between virtual machines and devices, especially when many multipath storage devices exist on the VM Host. By default (the check box being unselected), the view is simpler, showing only the specific storage devices that are being used as backing devices. For a multipath device, the simple view shows only the device special file (DSF) path, as specified when the virtual storage device was created. In contrast, the complex view displays all DSF versions of the same device, including (on an HP-UX 11i v3 VM Host) the persistent DSF. The complex view is identical to the view displayed by the VM Properties Storage tab in earlier versions of VM Manager. For more information, see the VM Manager VM Host Storage tab help topic.

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Updates the data displayed on this page. In general, VM Manager tabbed view screens are refreshed automatically at regular intervals, and VM Manager screens that display configuration data are updated instantaneously when you use VM Manager to change the related configuration parameters. However, when changes to the virtual machine I/O configuration are made using tools other than VM Manager (such as adding or removing I/O devices by using the VM Host command line), the updated configuration data is not shown until the screen is refreshed.

The meter (bar graph) displays storage I/O throughput data, if available. The data is a 5-minute average that is calculated and updated on 5-minute boundaries. If the data cannot be displayed, the meter is dimmed (as in the meter underneath this one) and a label indicates the probable cause. For a description of meter labels, see “Utilization Meter Status/Error Information”.

Displays the type of storage device interface and device, such as emulated SCSI disk (displayed as “SCSI Disk” ) or Accelerated Virtual Input/Output DVD (displayed as “AVIO DVD,” as shown in this example).

Clicking the Focus link limits the display to only those storage devices associated with the selected object (in this instance, the devices associated with the indicated SCSI disk) and the objects directly connected to it. All other devices are not displayed. To return to the original view, click the Show All link visible beneath the VM Manager menu bar on the focused page.

Indicates by color coding that matching components are related.

This color-coded line links the two representations of the storage device, one with the agile address and the other with the legacy address. The line indicates that they are two different representations of the same physical device. Multiple representations are displayed only if the Show physical host bus adapters check box is selected, as in Figure 3-17.

Goes back to the previous view, in this case the VM Manager VM Host view. When you access the Vswitch Properties view from another VM Manager view (such as the VM Host view), the link returns you to that previous VM Manager view.

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Displays virtual switch configuration information.

Updates the data displayed on this page. In general, VM Manager tabbed view screens are refreshed automatically at regular intervals, and VM Manager screens that display configuration data are updated instantaneously when you use VM Manager to change the related configuration parameters. However, when changes to the virtual machine I/O configuration are made using tools other than VM Manager (such as adding or removing I/O devices by using the VM Host command line), the updated configuration data is not shown until the screen is refreshed.

Goes back to the previous view, in this case the VM Properties view. When you access the Vswitch Properties view from another VM Manager view (such as the VM Properties view), the link returns you to that previous VM Manager view.

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Displays information about a vswitch and the devices connected to it.

Updates the data displayed on this page. In general, VM Manager tabbed view screens are refreshed automatically at regular intervals, and VM Manager screens that display configuration data are updated instantaneously when you use VM Manager to change the related configuration parameters. However, when changes to the virtual machine I/O configuration are made using tools other than VM Manager (such as adding or removing I/O devices by using the VM Host command line), the updated configuration data is not shown until the screen is refreshed.

Clicking the Focus link limits the display to only those network devices associated with the selected object (in this instance, the devices associated with the indicated LAN) and the objects directly connected to it. All other devices are not displayed. To return to the original view, click the Show All link visible beneath the VM Manager menu bar on the focused page.

Color coding indicates that matching components are related.

The meter (bar graph) displays network I/O throughput data, if available. The throughput data is a 5-minute average that is calculated and updated on 5-minute boundaries. If the data cannot be displayed, the meter is dimmed and a label indicates the probable cause. For a description of meter labels, see “Utilization Meter Status/Error Information”.