Implementing HP Insight Control for VMware Virtual Infrastructure

Course overview

This 1-day course is an excellent follow-on to the VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3: Installation and Configuration course (HB513S). It provides students with the skills needed to effectively deploy and manage the VMware Virtual Infrastructure using ProLiant Essentials software.

Note: In this class, the instructor will demonstrate all of the lab exercises to the students throughout the course.

Prerequisites

Before taking this course, students should have the following credentials or levels of experience:

• An understanding of VMware Infrastructure 3
  • VMware ESX Server v3.x
  • VMware VirtualCenter v2.x
  • Virtual Machine management
  • VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3: Installation and Configuration (HB513S)

Audience

• HP ProLiant System Administrators
• VMware Administrstors

Ways to save

Course objectives

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Describe HP Systems Insight Manager
• Describe the architecture of HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM)
• Configure HP SIM for Virtual Infrastructure Management
• Describe the functionality of the Virtual Machine Management (VMM) SIM plug-in
• Install and use the (VMM) plug-in
• Describe the functionality of the Server Migration Pack (SMP) SIM Universal Edition
• Install and use the SMP Universal Edition

Benefits to you

• Simplify Virtual Machine deployment and management
• More effectively move applications from physical to virtual infrastructures
• Describe HP Systems Insight Manager
• Describe the architecture of HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM)
• Configure HP SIM for Virtual Infrastructure Management
• Describe the functionality of the Virtual Machine Management (VMM) SIM plug-in
• Install and use the (VMM) plug-in
• Describe the functionality of the Server Migration Pack (SMP) Universal Edition
• Install and use the SMP Universal Edition

Course outline

Systems Insight Manager 5.2

• Plug-ins for HP SIM 5.2
• Selected recent features of HP SIM 5.2
• HP Systems Insight Manager key features
• Full function browser interface
• Role-based security
• Command line interface
• Device discovery and identification
• System and agent generated events
• Application plug-ins
• Collections and reporting
• Using HP SIM
• Installing Systems Insight Manager
• User configuration
• Setting up the next discovery
• Global protocol settings
• Browsing discovered devices
• Manual discovery

Virtual Machine Management Pack 3.5

• What’s new with VMM?
• Integration with HP SIM
• Integration features
• Benefits
• Ideal environments
• Technology overview (SIM Perspective)
• VMM architecture
• VMM virtualization technology support
• VMware VirtualCenter and VMotion
• Installing from the download website
• VMM installation requirements
• Installed components
• Installing the VMM agent
• Setting up the virtual machine host
• Post-installation tasks
• Licensing
• Applying licenses to virtual machine hosts
• Using VMM
• Icons
• Virtual machine host identification
• Prefailure event handling
• Network traffic compression
• Performance monitoring thresholds
• Virtual machine host
• Resource allocation
• Troubleshooting VMM

VMM Operations

• Post-installation tasks
• Virtual machine guest identification
• Using VMM tools and controls
• Starting or stopping a virtual machine guest
• Cloning a Virtual Machine
• Move a Virtual Machine (Cold Migrate)
• Live Migrate a Virtual Machine (VMotion)
• Using and creating templates
• Deploy a VM from a template
• Backup options
• Hot Backup workflow
• Restore Virtual Machine
• Virtual machine guest

Server Migration Pack 3

• HP SIM integration
• Features and benefits
• SMP architecture
• Deploying the SMP agent
• SMP licensing
• Licensing
• HP SMP application station prerequisites
• Performing a P2V migration
• Details of the P2V migration
• Virtual-to-virtual migrations
• Virtual to ProLiant migrations
• V2P Prerequisites
• V2P from the SIM Console
• Post-migration tasks (V2P)
• P2P from the SIM Console
• Operating system support
• Support per Migration Type