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IBM Systems Director VMControl
Installation and User's Guide
Version 2 Release 4
IBM Systems Director VMControl
Installation and User's Guide
Version 2 Release 4
Note
Before using this information and the product it supports, read the information in “Notices” on
page 431.
Contents
About this publication v
Who should read this book v
Conventions and terminology v
Publications and related information v
How to send your comments vi
What's new in IBM Systems Director
VMControl V2.4 vii
IBM Systems Director VMControl V2.4.2 1
Overview of IBM Systems Director VMControl . . . 1
Understanding the components of your IBM
Systems Director VMControl environment . . . 2
License information 12
Accessibility features 15
Planning for IBM Systems Director VMControl . . 15
Hardware and software requirements for
VMControl 15
IPv6 compliance 16
Supported virtualization environments 18
Recommendations for configuring IBM Power
Systems that are using IBM Systems Director
VMControl 79
Preparing your Power Systems environment for
server system pools 83
Installing IBM Systems Director VMControl . . . 84
Activating IBM Systems Director VMControl . . 84
Installing IBM Systems Director VMControl
permanent license key using the installation
wizard 85
Installing the IBM Systems Director VMControl
permanent license key silently 86
Installing IBM Systems Director VMControl
agents and subagents 88
Upgrading and migrating to IBM Systems
Director VMControl 2.4 115
Updating IBM Systems Director VMControl . . 118
Deactivating and uninstalling IBM Systems
Director VMControl 118
Configuring after installation 119
Navigating and managing VMControl resources 135
Using the VMControl summary page 135
Viewing resources in the Platform Managers
and Members view 137
Viewing resources in the Virtual Servers and
Hosts view 137
Viewing virtualization properties 138
Viewing monitors 139
Managing storage 147
Storage system pools overview 147
Managing storage system pools 149
Managing networks 152
Managing virtual servers 153
Creating a virtual server 153
Creating a virtual server for guest operating
system installation in a KVM environment . . 154
Editing host resources 158
Editing a virtual server 158
Deleting a virtual server permanently 159
Relocating virtual servers 160
Managing power operations on virtual servers 171
Launching VMware management software . . 174
Managing virtual appliances and workloads . . . 175
Creating and discovering image repositories . . 175
Deleting image repositories 183
Getting started with virtual appliances and
workloads 183
Managing virtual appliances 197
Managing virtual appliances with Tivoli
Provisioning Manager for Images 209
Managing workloads 213
Managing virtual farms 213
Adding a host to a virtual farm 214
Creating a virtual farm 214
Deleting a virtual farm from IBM Systems
Director and VMware vCenter 215
Removing a virtual farm from IBM Systems
Director 215
Editing a virtual farm 216
Removing a host from a virtual farm 216
Viewing virtual farms 216
Entering maintenance mode 217
Exiting from maintenance mode 217
Managing server system pools 218
Configuring SAN storage for Power Systems
server system pools 218
Creating server system pools 219
Renaming a server system pool 221
Server system pool optimization 221
Adding hosts to server system pools 222
Removing a host from a server system pool . . 223
Putting a host into maintenance mode 223
Removing a host from maintenance mode . . . 224
Permanently deleting a server system pool . . 224
Troubleshooting and support 224
Installation troubleshooting 225
Discovery and connectivity troubleshooting . . 228
Import troubleshooting 235
Capture troubleshooting 236
Deploy troubleshooting 242
Virtual server troubleshooting 250
Virtual appliance troubleshooting 260
Reference 261
VMControl commands 261
OVF specifications for IBM Systems Director
VMControl 402
Notices 431
Trademarks 432
© Copyright IBM Corp. 2007, 2012 iii
Index 435
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IBM Systems Director VMControl: Installation and User's Guide
About this publication
This publication provides instructions for installing and using IBM
®
Systems
Director VMControl Express Edition, IBM Systems Director VMControl Standard
Edition, and IBM Systems Director VMControl Enterprise Edition. Use VMControl
to manage virtual servers, virtual appliances, workloads, and system pools across
multiple hardware platforms and virtualization environments from one location.
This documentation describes how to use the Web interface as well as the
command-line interface (smcli) to complete tasks. You can also find
troubleshooting information, and a reference section that contains IBM Systems
Director VMControl-specific requirements for Open Virtualization Format (OVF)
virtual appliance packages.
Who should read this book
This book is for system administrators and operators using the IBM Systems
Director VMControl plug-in for IBM Systems Director to capture, import, and
deploy virtual appliances in the data center.
Conventions and terminology
These notices are designed to highlight key information:
Note: These notices provide important tips, guidance, or advice.
Important: These notices provide information or advice that might help you avoid
inconvenient or difficult situations.
Attention: These notices indicate possible damage to programs, devices, or data.
An attention notice appears before the instruction or situation in which damage
can occur.
Publications and related information
You can view the same content as is in this IBM Systems Director VMControl PDF
document in the Information Center. In addition to this documentation, there is
additional information related to IBM Systems Director VMControl.
To view a PDF file, you need Adobe Acrobat Reader, which can be downloaded for
free from the Adobe Web site at http://get.adobe.com/reader/.
IBM Systems Director VMControl resources on the World Wide
Web
v IBM Systems Director VMControl information center
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/director/pubs/topic/
com.ibm.director.vim.helps.doc/fsd0_vim_main.html
Find information for installing and using IBM Systems Director VMControl.
v IBM Systems Director VMControl Web site
http://www.ibm.com/systems/software/director/vmcontrol/
© Copyright IBM Corp. 2007, 2012 v
See an overview of IBM Systems Director VMControl and links to download the
product.
v IBM Systems Director Web site
www.ibm.com/systems/management/director/
Get overview information, demos, and downloads for the IBM Systems Director
product, and its plug-ins.
v IBM Systems and servers: Technical support page
www.ibm.com/systems/support/
Locate support for IBM hardware and systems-management software.
v IBM Systems Director VMControl Implementation Guide on IBM Power
Systems
™
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247829.html
Provides information about installing and configuring IBM Systems Director
VMControl in a Power Systems environment, including implementation
scenarios.
v IBM Systems Director Best Practices Wiki
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/display/WikiPtype/
IBM+Systems+Director+Best+Practices+Wiki
Includes additional information related to using IBM Systems Director
VMControl. For example, you can read about troubleshooting tips for a Power
Systems environment, as well as information about the latest patches required
for software supported by VMControl.
v IBM Systems Director API Usage & Licensing
http://www.ibm.com/vrm/4api1
Find out how you can potentially use IBM Systems Director programming
interfaces to extend the capabilities of IBM Systems Director VMControl.
How to send your comments
Your feedback is important in helping to provide the most accurate and highest
quality information.
If you have any comments about this book or any other IBM Systems Director
publication, go to the IBM Systems Director information center Web site at
publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/director/pubs/index.jsp. There you will find
the feedback page where you can enter and submit comments.
vi IBM Systems Director VMControl: Installation and User's Guide
What's new in IBM Systems Director VMControl V2.4
IBM Systems Director VMControl Version 2.4 provides a number of new features
and enhancements.
Functional enhancements
VMControl provides several functional enhancements including the following tasks
and commands:
v VMControl is automatically installed and uninstalled with IBM Systems Director
so there is no need for a separate installation or uninstallation. However you
must activate VMControl before you can use it.
v Messages for VMControl are now included in this information center. To find a
message, type the message ID in the Search field and click Go.
v IBM Systems Director VMControl for IBM PowerLinux is available, providing
the same functionality as IBM Systems Director VMControl Enterprise Edition.
v Support for an integrated System Pools view on the VMControl summary page.
From the System Pools tab you can access server system pools, storage system
pools, and if IBM Systems Director Network Control is installed and activated,
network system pools.
v Support on KVM and IBM Power Systems for integration with IBM Systems
Director Network Control network system pools (NSPs) for automated network
relocation and logical network provisioning across network resources.
v Support on KVM and Power Systems for integration with IBM Systems Director
Network Control and IBM Systems Director Network Management logical
network profiles to provision new and existing networks for capturing virtual
servers and deploying virtual appliances.
v Support on KVM and IBM Power Systems to capture and deploy virtual servers
that have multiple virtual disks, including the operating system (boot) disk and
additional data disks. For Power Systems, the virtual disks can be block type.
For KVM, the virtual disks can be block or file type.
v Support on Power Systems for deploying to new virtual servers that use N-port
ID Virtualization (NPIV). This support is for HMC-managed systems in both a
NIM-based and SCS-based virtualization environment.
v Support for managing agentless operating-system resources that use alternate
SSH software (non-OpenSSH software). This function is supported for the
capture and deploy tasks in the following virtualization environments:
– AIX
®
in a Power Systems virtualization environment that relies on AIX
Network Installation Manager (NIM)
– AIX and Linux in a Power Systems virtualization environment that relies on
storage copy services (SCS)
v Support for decreased copy times when capturing workloads and deploying
virtual appliances by utilizing FlashCopy
®
in the storage environment, using one
of the following options:
– By creating a remote service access point (RSAP) connection to an IBM Tivoli
®
Storage Productivity Center for Replication server. For more information, see
Preparing to use FlashCopy with TPC-R and mktpcrrsap.
– By creating an SSH remote service access point (RSAP) connection for the
SAN Volume Controller or IBM Storwize
®
V7000. For more information, see
Preparing to use FlashCopy with SSH and mksvcsshrsap.
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v Support for new monitors that report data for workloads and server system
pools. In addition, enhanced resource views can be filtered to display
information such as storage, network, and top resource consumers for a
workload or server system pool.
v Support for the VMware vCenter virtualization environment:
– VMware vCenter systems are now managed without agents. A VMControl
subagent for VMware vCenter is no longer required.
– The Connect task is no longer required on VMware vCenter systems to
establish credentials for the system. Discover and request access to the
VMware vCenter system and proceed with management tasks.
– After the request access task for the VMware vCenter system completes, all of
its managed VMware ESX Server and VMware ESXi hosts are discovered
automatically. The request access task is then performed by default on
VMware ESXi systems. Request access to VMware ESX Server hosts must still
be performed manually.
v Support for Linux Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) virtualization
environment:
– Support to capture virtual servers or workloads, to import and deploy virtual
appliances, to relocate virtual servers, and to group hosts into server system
pools for resiliency.
– Support for NFS and SAN storage pools to share storage between servers in a
server system pool or farm for the following:
- Capture to an image repository
- Deployment from an image repository
- Relocation
– Support for turning maintenance mode on and off for server system pool
hosts.
– Support for paravirtualization drivers on a guest operating system to improve
your virtual server performance, and support for paravirtualized networks or
devices for your virtual server.
– Support for providing CPU used time, ready time, and demand estimation
usage metrics information about your virtual server.
– Support for validating system compatibility for relocation of your hosts,
including provision of relocation failure details, prevention of relocations
between incompatible hosts, and presentation of only those hosts that are
compatible during server system pool creation or host addition.
– Support for adding new virtual disks or deleting virtual disks that are not
assigned to a virtual server through the Edit Host function.
– Support for specifying the primary and secondary boot device types of a
virtual server.
– Support for creating or editing a virtual server such that a serial console
device is made available, and for starting remote control from IBM Systems
Director to access your virtual server guest operating system.
v Support for IBM i virtualization environment:
– Support for creating, editing, and deleting virtual servers
– Support for capturing virtual servers or workloads, importing and deploying
virtual appliances
– Support for creating, editing, starting, stopping, and deleting workloads.
v Support for changing default settings and customizing your Network Installation
Manager (NIM) environment as follows:
viii IBM Systems Director VMControl: Installation and User's Guide
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