HP Integrity Virtual Server Manager 6.1 User Guide

VM or vPar Properties Storage tab
The VM or vPar Properties Storage tab works similarly to the VSP Storage tab. The difference
between the two tabs is that the VM or vPar Properties Storage tab shows only the devices related
to a single VM or vPar, whereas the VSP Storage tab shows all the devices (for the VSP and all
VMs or vPars) in the Integrity Virtual Server Manager environment.
Quick reference
Figure 48 VM or vPar Properties Storage tab
1
Goes back to the previous view, in this case the VSP view. If you accessed the Virtual Server
Manager Properties view from Matrix OE visualization, the link returns you to Matrix OE
visualization. In HP SMH, when you first access this page from SMH, the link is not provided.
The link appears whenever you move from one Integrity Virtual Server Manager view to another
(such as from VSP view to Virtual Server Manager Properties view, in which case the Go back
to Integrity Virtual Server Manager: Manage VSP link appears on the Virtual Server Manager
Properties view).
2
Displays this window in a format suitable for printing.
3
With the Show physical host bus adapters check box selected (as in this example), the view
includes the complete storage bus structure, host bus adapters, and multipath storage
configurations. This view may take longer to render and can be more challenging for discerning
the associations between VMs or vPars and devices, especially when many multipath storage
devices exist on the VSP. By default (the check box being unselected), the view is simpler,
showing only the specific storage devices that are being used as backing devices. For a
multipath device, the simple view shows only the device special file (DSF) path, as specified
when the virtual storage device was created. In contrast, the complex view displays all DSF
versions of the same device, including (on an HP-UX 11i v3 VSP) the persistent DSF. The
complex view is identical to the view displayed by the VM or vPar Properties tab in earlier
versions of Virtual Server Manager.
When you navigate to another Integrity Virtual Server Manager view and return to this view
again, the Show physical VSP bus adapters check box retains its state. In other words, if the
box is checked when you navigate away from the VM or vPar Properties Storage tab, it remains
checked when you navigate back (you continue to see the complex view on return). If the box
is unchecked, it remains unchecked when you return (you continue to see the simple view).
The check box state on the VM or vPar Properties Storage tab does not affect the state of the
same check box on the VSP Storage tab. For example, selecting the check box on the VM or
vPar Properties Storage tab does not automatically affect the check box and view of the VSP
Storage tab.
68 Using Integrity Virtual Server Manager views and tabs