My virtualmachine i unknown

[Matts_2]

HI

I have lot of virtuals machines on two esx server (3.0.2)
On one of esx server I missing two virtual machine
and it shows up as unknown in SIM and on the other esx server I missing three virtualservers.

HP BladeSystem Integrated Manager 2.3
HP Insight Power Manager 1.0
HP Performance Management Pack 4.6
HP Virtual Machine Management Pack 3.0

I have delete the unknown servers and run discovery.

/Matts

[Rider]

Discover VM guest with WBEM. If VM guest are windows install WMI mapper on in and discover. You should get all the info.

[Sean Carolan]

I have the same problem - most of my virtual machines are not correctly identified as VMs, even though we have the VMM agent properly installed on our ESX hosts.

[Marco MM]

I have the same problem. I tried to download WMI mapper but it appear to be unavailable on HP site. Could someone give me the correct URL?
Could also someone tell me where I have to install WMI Mapper? On SIM or on VM machine?

PS: I have HP SIM 5.1 SP1.

[Sean Carolan]

What's the deal with WMI mapper? Is there any solution for Linux servers? My understanding is WMI is for identifying Microsoft systems.

[Rider]

Hi Sean,

For linux, configure SNMP correctly for HP SIM data Collection.

Marco you can download WMI mapper from below link

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=US&swItem=MTX-aeb689f58db74128b59af142ce

[Rider]

The Mapper to be installed on Virtual Machine to identify as Virtual Machine in HP SIM make sure host is also discovered correctly in HP SIM

[Rob Buxton]

If HPSIM has been installed on a Windows based server then the WMI Mapper is not required. It's only used for non-windows based HPSIM installations.
It doesn't really help the identification of non-windows based guests on ESX servers. SNMP is probably the best way to identify the non-windows guest.

[Sean Carolan]

I have SNMP and VMWare tools installed on all my Linux VMWare guests, yet they still do not show up in HP SIM as virtual machines. How can we get them to be identified correctly?

[Marco MM]

Thanks, just configuring WMI credentials in HP SIM and, after a new data collection, all my VMs were correctly imported.

[Rider]

Don't forget to assign the points :-)

[Marco MM]

I would but cannot, the post is not mine! ;-)