Virtual Machine Host Registration failure.

[MA Rahman]

The problem Iâ m having is when I try to Register the VM Host or Configure or Repair agents I canâ t register my ESX server, I can manually browse to the server on :2381 and see the management page no prob and HPSIM registers the VM guest machines no problem as well it is just falling over trying to communicate to the hostâ ¦. Do I need to install something else on the host t get this to work???

[Rob Buxton]

Have you installed the VMM Agent on the VM Host server?
This is different from the HP Agents.
You can manually copy the file across to the VM Host server, unpack and install it.
On the HPSIM Server look for hpvmmagent.tar in:
C:\Program Files\HP\HP Virtualization Management Software\Agents\Linux

[James ~ Happy Dude]

Virtualization Management Software always uses the primary IP address of the virtual machine host to communicate between the CMS and the virtual machine hosts. If the virtual machine host has more than one IP addresses configured and the primary IP address cannot be reached by the CMS, Virtualization Management Software cannot register and manage the virtual machine host. To resolve this issue, re-order the network connections in the virtual machine host and verify that the virtual machine host primary IP address can be pinged from the CMS. Restart the VMM agent service on the virtual machine host and attempt the virtual machine host registration again.
NOTE: If DHCP is used on the VMware ESX Server host, the Microsoft DNS server might not map the host name to DHCP-generated IP addresses. HP recommends creating static IP address.

Then try using the comand prompt
# cd /D [VMM installation location]\bin
# vmcli -registerAgent vmm://IP_address where IP_address is the IP address of the new virtual machine host

Cheers !