Add Virtual Server (Virtual Disk): Service Details - HPE XP7 Automation Director User Manual

Property key
hyperv.vhdListOutputFile
NameRemote
hyperv.vhdListOutputFile
NameLocal

Add virtual server (virtual disk): Service details

The processing overview is as follows:
1. The task obtains the status of the virtual server.
2. The task confirms that the virtual server is not running:
• If the virtual server is not running, the task continues processing. In all other cases, the task runs
the User-Response Wait plug-in to check whether the virtual server is to be shut down.
• If you select Shutdown from the UI of the User-Response Wait plug-in, the virtual server is shut
down. If you select Shutdown for a virtual server that is not running, the task terminates
abnormally without performing any operations on the virtual server.
• If you select Cancel or the response-wait processing times out, the task terminates abnormally
without performing any operations on the virtual server.
3. The task creates a virtual disk file in the Hyper-V environment:
• The task can create dynamic (variable-size) or fixed (fixed-size) virtual disks. It cannot create
differential virtual disks or pass-through (physical) disks.
• If you specify the property hyperv.vHardDiskFolderPath, a new virtual disk file is created in
the folder path specified by the property. If you do not specify this property, a new virtual disk is
saved in the default virtual disk storage folder set on the Hyper-V server.
• If you specify a path that includes non-existent folders, those folders are automatically created.
4. The task connects the virtual disk to the virtual server.
You can add virtual disks to a SCSI controller but not to an IDE controller.
The method for connecting a virtual disk to a SCSI controller varies depending on whether the SCSI
controller ID number (hyperv.scsiControllerNumber) and SCSI controller location number
(hyperv.scsiLocationNumber) are specified:
• If neither the SCSI controller ID number nor SCSI controller location number is specified, the
Hyper-V server automatically connects the virtual disk to an available SCSI controller
• If only the SCSI controller ID number is specified, the Hyper-V server automatically connects the
virtual disk to any location (0 to 63) of the specified SCSI controller.
346 Add virtual server (virtual disk): Service details
Property name
Output file name
(remote)
Output file name (local)
Description
Specifies, as a full path,
the temporary file name
for when the virtual disk
file list used by the
virtual server is output to
the Hyper-V server.
Specifies the name of
the file (in full-path
format) that contains the
list of virtual disk files to
be saved to the local
server.
Required or optional
O
O