Discovering And Adding A Single Host - Symantec ALTIRIS SERVER MANAGEMENT SUITE 7.0 SP2 - V1.0 Manual

40 Getting Started with Virtual Machine Management

Discovering and adding a single host

Discovering and adding a single host
Process for getting started with the Virtual Machine Management
Table 7-1
component
Step Action
Step 1 Discover and add host machines
Step 2 Install the Virtual Machine
Management Task Server Plug-in
on the task server
Step 3 Collect the inventory on the host
machines
The Add Host feature lets you find and add a specific host to your network. To
search for the host, specify the IP address and run the network discovery task.
Description
You can provide IP address of a single
host machine and quickly add it to the
network.
See "Discovering and adding a single
host" on page 40.
You can discover all the host machines
and their virtual machines that are
available in the network. The discovery
data is added into the Configuration
Management Database (CMDB).
See "Discovering the host machines"
on page 41.
The Virtual Machine Management Task
Server Plug-in lets you run the
management tasks on your virtual
machines.
The Virtual Machine Management Task
Server Plug-in install policy is enabled
by default. It installs the Virtual
Machine Management Task Server
Plug-in on the task server.
See "Installing the Virtual Machine
Management Task Server Plug-in"
on page 43.
After you discover the Hyper-V and
VMware servers on your network, you
can gather inventory of these servers
and their virtual environments.
See "Gathering inventory on the host
machine" on page 44.