Virtualization Manager

Limitations

• On the Visualization tab, the Virtual Machine perspective does not show VMware Virtual Center data centers, clusters, or resource pools.

  Workaround. To see this information, go the HP SIM System Property page for the virtual machine.

• Integrity VM WBEM providers that are version 2.0 or earlier are incompatible with HP WBEM Services for HP-UX version 2.5 or later. If you install HP WBEM Services for HP-UX version 2.5 on a VM Host where version 2.0 or earlier of an Integrity VM WBEM provider is installed, when you access VM Manager, an error message from the VM Host's WBEM server appears at the top of the VM Manager screen and no data will be available on that screen. The error message is as follows:

  An error occurred collecting data -- query failed. An error occurred communicating with WBEM: CIM_ERR_FAILED CIM_ERR_FAILED: A GENERAL ERROR OCCURRED THAT IS NOT COVERED BY A MORE SPECIFIC ERROR CODE.: "PGS00200: NULL POINTER."

  To manage a VM Host with VM Manager and VSE Management Software, an Integrity VM WBEM provider is required on the VM Host. Integrity VM WBEM providers are optional on the virtual machines; however, HP recommends that you install them on each virtual machine on a VM Host managed by VM Manager or VSE Management Software.

  Workaround. If you are required to install HP WBEM Services version 2.5 or later on a virtual machine, first upgrade the Integrity VM WBEM provider on the virtual machine to version 3.0 or later. If HP WBEM Services version 2.5 or later is required on a VM Host, upgrade Integrity VM to version 3.0 or later.

Major Issues

• A “serious error” page will be displayed with Java errors when trying to save user preferences if logged into HP SIM on a Windows CMS and supplying a domain name upon login. To fix this issue, create a directory with the same name as the domain name under <vse install directory>\userprefs\, where <vse install directory> is the root directory of the VSE install (by default it is C:\Program Files\HP\Virtual Server Environment\).

Minor Issues

• When a managed node that is part of a shared resource domain is monitored by version 1.7.14.1 of the utilization provider, the visualization and the workload tabs do not correctly display immediate CPU utilization and memory utilization. In this case, the utilization data is only available on the SRD tab.

  If the managed node is monitored by an earlier version of the utilization provider, the visualization and workload tabs should display the data as expected. Use the swlist UtilProvider command to list the version of utilization provider.

• If Capacity Advisor data collection succeeds for VMware ESX Guests, but no new data is displayed for the guest in the Capacity Advisor Profile Viewer (that is, the “Data exists between” dates/times do not change), try restarting the the VMM agent (ConfigureVirtual Machine ManagementRestart VMM Agent...) on the VMware ESX Host.

  After restarting the VMM agent by clicking the Retry link in the resource utilization popup window.

• Monitored workloads are not supported on any Windows or Linux systems except for Linux running on Integrity 64-bit architectures. When you create workload definitions on the “Create Monitored Workload Definition” page, Virtualization Manager presents a list of systems from which you can deploy the workload. This list can contain systems on which monitored workloads are not allowed. Further, the ToolsUpdate System Workloads menu might be available on systems that do not support monitored workloads. If you attempt either of these operations on a system that does not support monitored workloads, a message will display indicating an SSH error or a WBEM exception. If you receive this error, check the target system’s properties to confirm whether the system is a supported candidate for a monitored workload.

• When using custom collections, in order for the Virtualization Manager to show the correct nodes in that collection in the Visualization View, click the refresh data button on the Virtualization Manager toolbar after adding nodes to or removing nodes from the collection.

• Environments using DHCP to manage IP addresses of Integrity VM Guests may encounter issues when monitoring those systems with the VSE Management Software. When using DHCP, it is possible for DHCP to reuse the IP address of a down Integrity VM Guest, and HP SIM can later discover another system using this IP address and mistake that system for the down Integrity VM Guest that once owned the IP address. If that happens, the VSE Management Software user interfaces may not display.

  Workaround. Do not use DHCP to manage the IP addresses of Integrity VM Guests when monitoring those systems with VSE Management Software. Instead, assign static IP addresses to Integrity VM Guests.