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Command View on a Virtual Machine?

William Norman — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:48:05 GMT

Can this be done? Can you put Command View on a VMware VM running Windows 2003?

Re: Command View on a Virtual Machine?

William Norman — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:49:55 GMT

I should state this is CV EVA.

Re: Command View on a Virtual Machine?

Hasan Atasoy — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:50:54 GMT

hi william ;
you need a physical machine .

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/bizsupport/questionanswer.do?threadId=1176808

Hasan

Re: Command View on a Virtual Machine?

Bernhard Mueller — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 08:11:35 GMT

William,

you cannot do it in a VM on an ESX host, since you cannot give those VMs a virtual FC HBA. (there are only virtual SCSI HBAs in ESX)

you could try the new VMware Server 2.0. as this is a hosted virtualization platform you can basically map physical HW supported on the host OS into a VM, so this *could* be feasible while it is certainly not supported

Regards,
Bernhard

Re: Command View on a Virtual Machine?

Rob Leadbeater — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 08:15:00 GMT

Hi William,

I tried this on ESX server 3.0.1 and couldn't get it to work.

You don't however say which of VMware's products you're using...

Cheers,

Rob

Re: Command View on a Virtual Machine?

Ted Buis — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 21:16:33 GMT

CommandView EVA is currently not supported by HP with any ESX VMware release up through ESX 3.0.1. There are some new capabilities in ESX 3.5, but it is too early for that to have been evaluated and tested.