Multi-Disk Management of virtual servers using IBM Systems Director Vmcontrol

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About this series

The IBM Systems Director Vmcontrol Advanced Manager simplifies the management of virtual environments that cover a variety of virtualization technologies and hardware platforms. Vmcontrol is one of the leading multi-platform virtualization management solutions included in each IBM Systems Director version. Vmcontrol supports 3 kinds of interfaces (GUI, CLI, and REST APIs). This series of articles contains the following topics:

Virtual Server Multi-Disk Management: This tutorial addresses the problems that end users face when performing operations related to multiple disk management of virtual servers. End users who are unfamiliar with custom table parameters will find it difficult to add or remove disks from the virtual server.

perform multiple Disk Management to establish virtual devices and revision control: This tutorial addresses the problems that end users face when performing multiple disk Management to create virtual devices and control revisions during capture. End users who are unfamiliar with custom table parameters find it difficult to perform multiple-disk capture and versioning of virtual devices during capture.

perform multiple-disk Management to deploy workloads: This tutorial addresses the problems that end users face during the implementation of multiple disk Management to deploy workloads. End users who are unfamiliar with custom table parameters will find it difficult to perform modifications and mappings to the disk during deployment.

This series of articles helps all Vmcontrol users understand how to perform Vmcontrol multi-disk management functionality through REST and the CLI.

About this tutorial

Multi-Disk Management for virtual servers includes the following main operations, which use both the REST API and the CLI:

Create a virtual server and add an existing disk

Create a virtual server and add a new disk

Edit a virtual server to add an existing disk

Edit a virtual server to add a new disk

Edit a virtual server to delete a disk

This tutorial will cover all of these features on IBM power and on-core virtual machines (KVM).

Figure 1 shows a flowchart that uses the IBM Systems Director Vmcontrol to perform multiple disk Management on a virtual server.

Figure 1. Virtual Server multi-Disk Management