User Guide


Virtual servers running on vCenter compute resources are managed almost the same as normal virtual servers. Also, the vCenter cluster is displayed as a pool of resources rather than per compute resource.

OnApp Cloud gives you high-end cloud management features including:

vCenter Virtual Server Options

Power Options

 Networks

Disks

Snapshots

StatisticsRecipes

Edit

Reboot

Configure network interface

Create disks

Snapshots

CPU utilization

Recipes

Rebuild manually

Suspend

Rebuild network

Edit disks


Billing statisticsCustom variables
DeleteShut down

Edit network speed

Migrate disks


Network interface statistics



Startup

vCenter virtual server IP addresses

Delete disks


Disk IOPS statistics


Display network speed for network interfaces



                       

 Certain VS operations are unavailable in OnApp with vCenter:

  • Reboot in recovery
  • Segregate 
  • VIP status
  • Autoscaling
  • Migrate VS. vCenter utilizes vMotion to ensure that the VSs are optimally placed on the compute resources
  • Backups. Backup process for vCenter virtual servers differs from the standard OnApp backup scheme. See vCenter VS Snaphots section for details. 
  • Use of IPv6 is not supported for vCenter virtual servers.  


NOTE: Performing the following VS operations at vCenter may lead to problems with VMware infrastructure management. Please, do not execute the following actions in vCenter:

  • Power On/Off or Suspend VSs
  • Edit the Properties for any VS
  • Create and delete Snapshots
  • Make changes to the distributed vSwitch
  • Remove templates from the data store
  • Rename templates
  • Delete the services account on the virtual server
  • Remove or stop VMware tools on the virtual server

Performing the following actions in vCenter will not affect OnApp:

  • Migrate VSs between compute resources using vMotion
  • Migrate VSs between data stores using Storage vMotion
  • Place compute resources into maintenance mode
  • Make changes to compute resources when in maintenance mode
  • Back up VSs using third party tool (e.g. Veeam)
  • Enable, Disable or make changes to DRS

Performing the following actions in vCenter will be synchronized with OnApp:

  • Networks Created
  • Networks Deleted
  • Datastores Created
  • Datastores Deleted
  • New Compute Added
  • Compute Remove
  • Updates to Imported VSs (Ex. Changed Resources, added NICs, add Disks)
  • VS has been Deleted