Identifying Vmms And Vms; Virtual Machine Manager Table - Extreme Networks Ridgeline Guide Manual

VM counters are cleared when a VM moves between ports on the same switch (because the ACLs
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are deleted and recreated).

Identifying VMMs and VMs

The Virtual Machine Manager lists all virtual machine managers added to and used by Ridgeline. These
include:
VMware - vCenter Server Virtualization Management
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Citrix - XenServer
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Virtual Machine Manager Table

To open the Machine Manager Table, do the following:
1 On the Folder list, go to Ridgeline Administration>Virtualization management. The Virtualization
management tab opens showing the Device/Ports tab and the VM managers tab.
The Virtual Machine Manager table automatically updates and supports the following operations:
Importing virtual machines from a selected VM
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Deleting selected VMMs
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Editing selected VMMs
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Updating VMMs (Use this to manually update Ridgeline with the current status of the discovered
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VMMs.)
These options are available under the File and Edit menus. The contents in All table view automatically
refreshes when you leave it open.
NOTE
When using VM Ware, one view per VMM opens. When using Citrix individual entries for each Resource
pool or cluster show.
The Virtual Machine Manager Table
Table properties
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- Column filter (when enabled)
- Quick filter
- Refresh Semantics
- Row Selection criteria
- Paging
Table Columns
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- Name of VMM
- Type of VMM
- IP Address of VMM
- VMM user name
- Current state of a VMM. If an error occurs an error message dialog box opens
Launch Points for VM managers
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Ridgeline Concepts and Solutions Guide
(Figure 102) provides the following information:
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