Managing Virtual Machine Hosts; Configuring Policies For Vm Provisioning Adapters; Configuring Policies For Virtual Center - Novell PLATESPIN ORCHESTRATE 2.0.2 - VIRTUAL MACHINE MANAGEMENT GUIDE 10-17-2009 Management Manual

Managing Virtual Machine Hosts

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After installing the PlateSpin
hypervisor technology residing on the resource by editing the appropriate policies and running the
Discover VM hosts job. Later on, you can discover and manage VMs residing on the VM hosts.
These launch the adapter job to connect to the appropriate hypervisor Web service.
Section 1.1, "Configuring Policies for VM Provisioning Adapters," on page 9
Section 1.2, "Discovering VM Hosts and Repositories," on page 15
Section 1.3, "Discovering VM Images," on page 16
Section 1.4, "Resynchronizing the VM Host's State," on page 16
Section 1.5, "Shutting Down VM Hosts," on page 17
Section 1.6, "Restarting VM Hosts," on page 18
Section 1.7, "Understanding VM Host Failover," on page 18
1.1 Configuring Policies for VM Provisioning
Adapters
This section contains information on the policies required to manage the Provisioning adapters.
Provisioning adapters are programs that provision (start, stop, snapshot, migrate, or pause) a VM.
They run just like regular jobs on the PlateSpin Orchestrate Server.
Section 1.1.1, "Configuring Policies for Virtual Center," on page 9
Section 1.1.2, "Configuring Policies for Xen 3.0," on page 12
Section 1.1.3, "Configuring Policies for VMware Server," on page 12
Section 1.1.4, "Configuring Policies for Hyper-V," on page 13
Section 1.1.5, "Configuring Policies for ESX," on page 14

1.1.1 Configuring Policies for Virtual Center

Before provisioning and managing the Virtual Center provisioning adapter, you must configure
certain policies in the Development Client. However, before configuring the policies for the Virtual
Center, make sure that the following prerequisites are met:
Make sure that the Orchestrate Agent for Windows* is installed and started on the Windows
host running Virtual Center.
IMPORTANT: The PlateSpin Orchestrate Server supports only one VMware Virtual Center
server per grid.
Make sure that J2RE with version 1.4.2 for VCenter 1.x or version 1.5 for VCenter 2.x is
installed on the Windows system running Virtual Center.
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Orchestrate Agent on the physical resource, you can discover for the
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