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SA client virtualization tab

The SA Client allows you to manage your virtualization services (VSs) and create and manage VM templates and VMs. This section introduces you to the SA Client Virtualization tab and the Devices tab used to manage your VMs.

Virtualization services

HPE SA supports integration with VMware vCenter Server and Microsoft SCVMM. These virtualization vendors manage multiple hypervisors and VMs in a virtualization environment. SA also supports limited integration with on-premise OpenStack cloud deployments, which offer IaaS. We refer to this group of virtualization vendors and cloud computing solutions collectively as Virtualization Services.

Virtualization tab

To start managing your VSs, select the Virtualization tab in the SA Client (see the following figure). This displays your virtualization inventory, including VMware vCenter, Microsoft SCVMM, and OpenStack servers.

To bring your VSs under SA management, select the Actions menu or right-click on VMware vCenter, Microsoft SCVMM, or OpenStack, and select Add Virtualization Service. For details, see Add a virtualization service.

After adding the VS to SA, the SA Client displays the virtualization inventory under the VSs in the navigation pane. Locate the desired host, folder, or other element in the virtualization hierarchy.

Select the Hosts & Clusters view or the VMs & Templates view to focus your view on just those elements of your VMware vCenter Server (as shown in the following figure).

Select an item in the virtualization inventory, then select one of the following tabs:

  • Immediate Descendants - Shows only items immediately under the selected item. Does not show the contents of any folders below the selected item.
  • All Virtual Machines - Shows all VMs under the selected item, no matter how far down in the folder hierarchy (not applicable for OpenStack).
  • All Hosts - Shows all hypervisors under the selected item, no matter how far down in the folder hierarchy (not applicable for OpenStack).

Right-click or use the Actions menu to perform a variety of operations on any item in the Virtualization inventory. For details, see Virtual machine and VM template tasks.

Icons for virtualization items

The following table shows the various icons for your virtualization inventory.

Icon Description
Hypervisor running the SA Agent and communicating with the SA core
Hypervisor running the SA Agent and not communicating with the SA core
Agentless hypervisor
VM template, including the SA Agent
Agentless VM template, not including the SA Agent
VM running the SA Agent and communicating with the SA core
VM running the SA Agent, not communicating with the SA core
Agentless VM not running the SA Agent, not communicating with the SA core

VMware Virtualization Service

VMware datacenter
VMware folder containing VMs and VM templates
VMware folder containing hosts and clusters

VMware cluster

Microsoft host group

Microsoft Virtualization Service

Microsoft cluster

Microsoft All VM Templates folder

OpenStack Virtualization Service. Controller node running the SA Agent and communicating with the SA core.

OpenStack project

Devices tab

Select the Devices tab in the SA Client to manage your VMs, just as you would do for physical servers.

Managing Oracle Solaris zones

You can manage Oracle Solaris Zones with SA:

  1. In the SA Client, select the Devices tab.
  2. Select Servers > Oracle Solaris Zones. This displays your Oracle Solaris Zones.

For more information, see Manage Oracle Solaris zones.

Managing HP-UX virtual servers

For information on managing HP-UX virtual servers, see Manage HP-UX virtual servers.