vCenter Virtual Servers
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 | Administrative Options | Networks | Snapshots | Statistics | Recipes | ||
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Reboot | Create/Edit Administrator's note | ||||||
Suspend | Transactions and logs | Billing statistics | Custom variables | ||||
Delete | Shut down | Change Owner | |||||
Migrate to KVM | Startup | Console | Disk IOPS statistics | ||||
Resync VS | |||||||
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. However, you can migrate vCenter virtual servers to KVM.
- 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:
- Edit the Properties for any VS
- Create and delete Snapshots
- Make changes to the distributed vSwitch
- Remove templates from the data store
- 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