Multi-Disk Management for IBM Systems Director Vmcontrol (1)

Multi-Disk Management for capturing virtual devices and versioning

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About this series

The IBM Systems Director Vmcontrol Advanced Manager simplifies the management of virtual environments across multiple virtualization technologies and hardware platforms. Vmcontrol is the leading multi-platform virtualization management solution shipped with versions of IBM Systems Director. Vmcontrol supports three kinds of interfaces (GUI, CLI, and REST APIs). This series contains the following topics:

Multi-Disk Management for virtual servers: The end user faces a number of issues when performing operations related to multiple Disk Management for a virtual server, and this tutorial is dedicated to addressing these issues. End users who have a certain understanding of custom table parameters will find it difficult to add or remove disks from the virtual server.

Multi-Disk Management for creating virtual devices and Versioning: multi-Disk Management while capturing to create virtual devices and versioning, where end users face some problems, and this tutorial is dedicated to addressing these issues. End users who have a certain understanding of custom table parameters will find it difficult to perform multiple disk capture and versioning of virtual devices during the capture process.

Multi-Disk Management for deployment workloads: the problems that end users face when performing multiple disk Management to deploy workloads, and this tutorial is dedicated to addressing these issues. End users who have a certain understanding of custom table parameters will find it difficult to modify and map the disk during deployment.

This series will help all Vmcontrol users understand the Vmcontrol multiple disk (Multi-disk) management functionality through REST and the CLI.

About this tutorial

Multi-Disk Management and versioning for capturing virtual devices includes the following major operations using the REST API and command-line interfaces:

Capturing virtual devices and disks

Capturing virtual devices and performing version control

The following is a flowchart for using the IBM Systems Director Vmcontrol to capture multiple Disk Management and versioning of virtual devices.

Figure 1. Multi-Disk Management for capturing virtual devices

Figure 2. To capture version control of a virtual device