Novell PLATESPIN ORCHESTRATE 2.0.2 - VIRTUAL MACHINE MANAGEMENT GUIDE... Programmierhandbuch

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PlateSpin Orchestrate 2.0 Virtual Machine Management Guide

PlateSpin Orchestrate

2.0.2

November 17, 2009

Virtual Machine Management Guide

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Contents 5

Contents

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About This Guide 7

1 Managing Virtual Machine Hosts 9

1.1 Configuring Policies for VM Provisioning Adapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

1.1.1 Configuring Policies for Virtual Center. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

1.1.2 Configuring Policies for Xen 3.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

1.1.3 Configuring Policies for VMware Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

1.1.4 Configuring Policies for Hyper-V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

1.1.5 Configuring Policies for ESX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

1.2 Discovering VM Hosts and Repositories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

1.3 Discovering VM Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

1.4 Resynchronizing the VM Host’s State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

1.5 Shutting Down VM Hosts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

1.6 Restarting VM Hosts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

1.7 Understanding VM Host Failover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

2 Managing Virtual Machines 21

2.1 Provisioning a Virtual Machine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

2.2 Managing a Virtual Machine in Runtime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

2.2.1 Using the Right-Click Menu for Provisioning Actions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

2.2.2 Prerequisites for Performing Provisioning Actions on ESX VMs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

2.2.3 Releasing a Virtual Machine from Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

2.2.4 Managing Virtual Machine Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

2.2.5 Managed Virtual Machine Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

2.2.6 Virtual Machine Technology-Specific Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

2.3 Resynchronizing the State of All VMs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

2.4 Resynchronizing the State of All VMs of a Specific VM Host. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

2.5 Shutting Down Multiple VMs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

2.6 Destroying and Deleting a Virtual Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

3 Managing VM Repositories 31

3.1 Deploying a VM to the Local Repository . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

3.2 Deploying a VM to the Datagrid Repository . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

3.3 Deploying a VM to the NAS Repository . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

3.4 Deploying a VM to the SAN Repository . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

3.5 Virtual Repository. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

4 Troubleshooting Provisioning Actions 35

5 Understanding Autoprep 41

5.1 Setting Autoprep Facts in the Development Client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

5.1.1 Setting Linux Autoprep Config Facts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

5.1.2 Setting Autoprep Network Adapter Facts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

5.2 Applying Autoprep Facts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

5.2.1 Example Autoprep Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

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5.2.2 How Autoprep Works. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

5.3 Known Autoprep Limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

A Virtual Machine Technologies and Actions 47

A.1 Virtual Machine Technologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

A.2 Xen Hypervisor on SLES 10 SP2 or SLES 11 Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

A.2.1 Additional Xen Provisioning Adapter Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

A.3 VMware Virtual Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

A.3.1 Additional VMware Virtual Center Provisioning Adapter Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

A.4 Microsoft Hyper-V Hypervisor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

A.5 VMware ESX VM Hypervisor (Experimental). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

B Documentation Updates 55

B.1 November 17, 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

B.2 July 9, 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

B.3 June 17, 2009 (2.0.2 Release). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

About This Guide 7

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About This Guide

In addition to managing virtual machines (VMs) and host servers using the PlateSpin®Orchestrate

VM Client, you can do other management work using the PlateSpin Orchestrate Development

Client. This Virtual Machine Management Guide provides instructions on the management tasks

that you can do in the Development Client.

The guide is organized as follows:

Chapter 1, “Managing Virtual Machine Hosts,” on page 9

Chapter 2, “Managing Virtual Machines,” on page 21

Chapter 3, “Managing VM Repositories,” on page 31

Chapter 4, “Troubleshooting Provisioning Actions,” on page 35

Chapter 5, “Understanding Autoprep,” on page 41

Appendix A, “Virtual Machine Technologies and Actions,” on page 47

Appendix B, “Documentation Updates,” on page 55

For documentation on using Orchestrate jobs to further manage VMs, host machines, and physical

machines, see “Virtual Machine Job Development” in the PlateSpin Orchestrate 2.0 Developer

Guide and Reference.

Audience

This book is for data center administrators. It assumes that users of the product have the following

background:

General understanding of network operating environments and systems architecture

Knowledge of basic Linux* shell commands, the Windows* command prompt, and text editors

Feedback

We want to hear your comments and suggestions about this manual and the other documentation

included with this product. Please use the User Comments feature at the bottom of each page of the

online documentation, or go to www.novell.com/documentation/feedback.html (http://

www.novell.com/documentation/feedback.html) and enter your comments there.

Additional Documentation

In addition to this Virtual Machines Management Guide, PlateSpin Orchestrate 2.0 includes the

following additional guides that contain valuable information about the product:

PlateSpin Orchestrate 2.0 Getting Started Reference

PlateSpin Orchestrate 2.0 Installation and Configuration Guide

PlateSpin Orchestrate 2.0 Upgrade Guide

PlateSpin Orchestrate 2.0 High Availability Configuration Guide

PlateSpin Orchestrate 2.0 Administrator Reference

PlateSpin Orchestrate 2.0 Command Line Reference

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PlateSpin Orchestrate 2.0 VM Client Guide and Reference

PlateSpin Orchestrate 2.0 Development Client Reference

PlateSpin Orchestrate 2.0 Developer Guide and Reference

PlateSpin Orchestrate 2.0 Server Portal Reference

Documentation Updates

For the most recent version of this guide, visit the PlateSpin Orchestrate 2.0 documentation Web site

(http://www.novell.com/documentation/ps_orchestrate20/).

Documentation Conventions

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items in a cross-reference path.

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forward slash, such as Linux, should use forward slashes as required by your software.

Managing Virtual Machine Hosts

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Managing Virtual Machine Hosts

After installing the PlateSpin®Orchestrate Agent on the physical resource, you can discover for the

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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NOTE: In the 2.0.2 release of PlateSpin Orchestrate, the VMware Virtual Center Provisioning

Adapter supports only VMware Virtual Center 2.x. Virtual Center 1.x is not supported in this

release.

The JREs that ship with Virtual Center and with the Orchestrate Agent are version 1.5. Version

1.4.2_15 can be downloaded from the Sun* Download Center (https://sdlc4a.sun.com/ECom/

EComActionServlet;jsessionid=88B0E4E7E868F2F6C671427ACC9C0D13).

Make sure that the keystore is created on the server where Virtual Center is installed.

If the keystore is not created, do the following on the server where Virtual Center is installed to

generate it

1. Find the

rui.crt

certificate.

On Windows, the default location is:

C:\Documents and Settings\All

Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter\SSL\rui.crt

2. Create a

VCenter_Certs

directory at the top level by entering

mkdir

C:\VCenter_Certs\

3. Copy

rui.crt

C:\VCenter_Certs\

4. Run

keytool

The default location is

C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter

2.0\jre\bin\keytool.exe

5. Enter:

cd C:\VCenter_Certs

[path]keytool -import -keystore keystore -file rui.crt

6. Enter a password when prompted.

The following table provides detailed information about the policies associated with the Virtual

Center provisioning adapter that are used to manage the Virtual Center hosts and the VMs in the

grid. The policy settings are applied to all the Virtual Center VMs in the grid.

Table 1-1 Virtual Machine Management Policies for Virtual Center

Policy Name Explanation Additional Details

vcenter Contains the constraints used

to select the vCenter Server

resources.

Do not edit the policy.

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