topic Re: HVM Single-Host Deployment in HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software

HVM Single-Host Deployment

YA1007 — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 05:53:44 GMT

I am investigating the steps for building a single-host HPE Morpheus VM Essentials deployment for testing purposes. The configuration is a single host with no external storage.

I don't need support, and this is for testing purposes.
If possible, I would like to know the deployment steps. The steps I'm currently considering are as follows. What do you think?

1. Host deployment
2. Deploying and initializing the manager
3. Creating a group, cloud, and HVM cluster via the WebUI
Since this is a single-host deployment, I understand that only one host needs to be configured when creating an HVM cluster. Is this possible?

*Please excuse any confusion as this is a machine translation.

Re: HVM Single-Host Deployment

MK_J — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 06:15:22 GMT

Hello YA1007,

You can find complete information on HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software, setup guide for installing VM Essentials manager and HVM cluster at the following link :

https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docId=sd00006560en_us&page=GUID-B5E3A52C-D672-4AED-88FB-3A607EB3F33B.html

To create a HVM cluster you need three nested virtual machines, a single physical host (non-HCI only), or a single nested virtual machine (non-HCI only) though performance may be reduced. With just one host it won’t be possible to migrate workloads between hosts or take advantage of automatic failover.

Regards,

Re: HVM Single-Host Deployment

YA1007 — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 06:23:20 GMT

Thank you for your reply.

I have built clusters with three and two hosts before, but never with one host.

If I want to build a cluster with one host, does that mean I only need to specify one host when creating the cluster?

Re: HVM Single-Host Deployment

MK_J — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 06:44:35 GMT

You are correct.

At VME Manager GUI, you need to create Group, cloud & cluster (here it will be single node)