For virtual servers, select the VM type for the L-Server to be created.
It is not necessary to specify this when deploying an image, because the VM type of the image is used.
Enter the number of server CPUs to assign to the L-Server. Enter an integer between 1 and 8.
Enter the server CPU speed to assign to the L-Server. Enter a number with up to one decimal place, in units of gigahertz. A number between 0.1 and 8 can be specified.
The value entered here is used to determine the CPU ratio to assign to the L-Server out of the clock speed of the physical CPU of the VM host. If VM hosts with different types of physical CPUs are registered in the VM pool, the actual processing performance may differ according to the assigned VM host.
[Hyper-V]
CPU performance is realized through the resource settings of VM guests and VM hosts.
When the SCVMM management console or a Hyper-V manager is used to change the resource reservation of a VM guest or VM host, there is a chance that the creation or starting of VM guests may fail, or the expected performance may not be obtained.
Please do not change VM guest and VM host resource reservations when L-Servers have been created.
Enter the memory capacity to assign to the L-Server. Enter a number with up to one decimal place, in units of gigabytes. A number between 0.1 and 255 can be specified.
Specify the type of operating system to assign to the L-Server. It is not necessary to specify this when deploying an image, because the OS type of the image is used. The OS type can be changed after the OS installation.
[Hyper-V]
If an unsupported OS type is specified, there is a chance that installation may fail or the OS of the VM guest may not operate correctly.
Additionally, if an incorrect OS type is specified, there is a chance that image collection or L-Server creation for a specified image may fail, and a guest OS may start but hang while awaiting entry. This occurs because Microsoft's sysprep cannot be processed correctly during personalization processing.
The OS types displayed in the list are the guest OS's which can be specified on the SCVMM management console.
Resource Orchestrator displays all guest OS's in the list in order not to limit user selection, however this does not mean that all guest OS's are supported by SCVMM.
Hyper-V does not support some server type settings such as number of CPUs depending on the OS type. When an incorrect OS type and server type are selected, operation is not guaranteed.
Additionally, even when a service pack is not listed in the OS type list, it may be necessary to install the service pack.
When a guest OS that Hyper-V supports is specified for the OS type, a converged network adapter will be added to VM.
When a different OS has been selected, an emulated network adapter will be added.
For details on the guest OS's supported by SCVMM, refer to the Help of SCVMM.
For details on the guest OS's supported by Hyper-V, refer to the following Microsoft web site.
Microsoft web site
URL: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/hyperv-supported-guest-os.aspx (As of November 2010) |
Individually specify the resources to assign to the L-Server.
Specify a VM host or VM pool. If you do not specify a VM host or VM pool, a VM host that can create an L-Server is automatically searched for from the VM pool. If there are multiple VM pools, the VM host is searched for, beginning with the VM pool with the highest priority.
Specify the server redundancy to assign to the L-Server. To enable redundancy, select the "HA" checkbox.
The following operations are performed if you select the "HA" checkbox.
[VMware]
Selecting the "HA" checkbox locates the HA function on an enabled VM host.
When a problem occurs in the physical server that the virtual server is operating on, the virtual server can be recovered by restarting it on a physical server that is operating normally.
If the "HA" checkbox is not selected, the HA function will be preferentially located on a disabled VM host.
Even if the "HA" checkbox is not selected and the HA function is not located on a disabled VM host, or there is no available CPU or memory, the HA function will place a VM guest on an enabled VM host.
If the HA function is located on an enabled VM host, the HA function of the server virtualization software will be enabled.
[Hyper-V]
In Hyper-V environments this setting is ignored, and VM guests are always located on clustered VM hosts.
Enter whether the physical location of the server to assign to the L-Server can be changed.
"Fixed"
Starts the L-Server on the same VM host that operated last time. Move the L-Server between servers to start it on a separate VM host.
"Change at Boot"
Automatically selects the optimal VM host when the L-Server is started. Even when "VM Host" is specified, the L-Server may operate on a separate VM host from the second time it is started.
Enter this when you do not want the virtual server assigned to the L-Server to operate on the same VM host as another virtual server on the physical server.
For example, when performing load-balanced work using multiple virtual servers, you can set exclusive operation to ensure that the work continues in a degenerate state because only one virtual server stops when a physical server fails. Specify an L-Server name or resource folder name that you have operating privileges for.
The virtual server of the specified L-Server is assigned to different physical servers.
If you specify a resource folder name, one's own L-Server can be included in the resource folder. In the following cases, the L-Server may be assigned to the same physical server, regardless of whether exclusive operation is specified:
If the L-Server is moved
If no other VM hosts that meet the conditions for exclusive operation can be found, such as when there are no VM hosts in the VM pool that have enough free space to install an L-Server
If the HA function or automatic re-installation function (examples: VMware HA or DRS) of the VM product is enabled
