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Overview of virtualization support

This topic provides an overview of the types of BMC Server Automation Console management tasks you can perform in each of the supported virtual environments.

The following table lists the types of BMC Server Automation Console management tasks you can perform in each supported virtual environment.

Virtual environment

Supported actions

VMware vSphere

  • Live browse a virtual node inventory (vCenter, virtual host, and virtual machine)
  • Snapshot on all nodes of clusters, inventory, hosts, templates and virtual machines
  • Audit on all nodes of clusters, inventory, hosts, templates and virtual machines
  • Compliance on all nodes of clusters, inventory, hosts, templates and virtual machines
  • Support for live browse and use of VMware templates
  • Deploy for VMware virtual machines and ESX host configurations
  • Creation of VMware virtual machine, using existing virtual machine
  • Creation of VMware virtual machines, using a repeatable process (using the Virtual Guest Package and Virtual Guest Job)
  • Discover virtual machines with Virtual Infrastructure Discovery Job
  • Discover templates and create Virtual Guest Packages automatically using the Virtual Guest Template Enrollment Job.

Solaris Zones

  • Live browse a virtual node inventory (nonglobal zone, projects and resource pools)
  • Snapshot on all nodes of nonglobal zone, projects and resource pools
  • Audit on all nodes of nonglobal zone, projects and resource pools
  • Compliance on all nodes of nonglobal zone, projects and resource pools
  • Creation of nonglobal zone, using a repeatable process (using the Virtual Guest Package and Virtual Guest Job)
  • BLPackage Deploy on nonglobal zone
  • Discover local zones with Virtual Infrastructure Discovery Job

IBM PowerVM

  • Live browse a virtual node inventory (LPARs, VIO servers, pools)
  • Snapshot of Frame Configuration, LPARS, VIO servers, pools
  • Audit of Frame Configuration, LPARs, VIO servers, pools
  • Compliance of frame configuration, LPARs, VIO servers, pools
  • Creation of LPAR or VIO server, using a repeatable process (using the Virtual Guest Package and Virtual Guest Job)
  • BLPackage Deploy of frame configuration, LPARs, VIO servers, pools
  • Discover LPARS with Virtual Infrastructure Discovery Job

Hyper-V

  • Live browse for virtual node inventory (clusters, host, and virtual machine)
  • Snapshot of virtual machine, host, or cluster
  • Audit of virtual machine or host
  • Creation of virtual machines, using a repeatable process (using the Virtual Guest Package and Virtual Guest Job)
  • Deploy for virtual machine configurations using a BLPackage:
    • Ability to modify memory, CPU, and power state (power state modification is supported only for VMs in the Running and Stopped states)
    • Ability to add and delete VM disks and NICs using a BLPackage
      Note: Modifying an existing NIC through a BLPackage is not supported.
  • Discover templates and create Virtual Guest Packages automatically using the Virtual Guest Template Enrollment Job.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization

BMC Server Automation supports both Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization platforms, Red Hat KVM and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager for Servers (RHEV Manager).

  • Live browse a virtual node inventory (hosts, guests)
  • Snapshot on host configuration
  • Audit on host configuration
  • Compliance on host configuration
  • Creation of guests, using a repeatable process (using the Virtual Guest Package and Virtual Guest Job)
  • Deploy for RHEV virtual guest configurations (modify memory, CPU, add new disk or NIC to a virtual machine)

Red Hat KVM

  • Live browse a virtual node inventory (hosts, guests)
  • Snapshot on host configuration
  • Audit on host configuration
  • Compliance on host configuration
  • Creation of guests, using a repeatable process (using the Virtual Guest Package and Virtual Guest Job)
  • BLPackage Deploy for guests

Citrix XenServer

  • Live browse a virtual node inventory (hosts, virtual machines, custom templates, XenServer templates, pools, storage repositories)
  • Snapshot on XenServer configuration
  • Audit on XenServer configuration
  • Compliance on XenServer configuration
  • Creation of virtual machines, using a repeatable process (using the Virtual Guest Package and Virtual Guest Job)
  • BLPackage Deploy on virtual machines
  • Discover templates and create Virtual Guest Packages automatically using the Virtual Guest Template Enrollment Job.
Warning

Note

The BMC Server Automation administrator must install and configure the virtual environment. For more information, see Setting-up-BMC-Server-Automation-for-virtual-environments.

 

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