A.2 Xen Hypervisor on SLES 10 SP2 or SLES 11 Host

The Xen hypervisor runs on SLES 10 SP2 and SLES 11 host machines with the PlateSpin Orchestrate Xen Provisioning Adapter (xen30). The following table represents the PlateSpin Orchestrate VM actions and whether or not PlateSpin Orchestrate can perform that action on the guest operating system.

Table A-2 VM Actions Supported for SLES 10 SP2 or SLES 11 Host Using the Xen Hypervisor

PlateSpin Orchestrate Managed VM Action

SLES 9 Guest

SLES 10 Guest

RHEL 4 Guest

RHEL 5 Guest

Other Linux Guest

Windows Guest

Provision

X

X

X

X

X

X

Clone

X

X

X

X

X

X

Shutdown

X

X

X

X

X

X

Destroy

X

X

X

X

X

X

Suspend

X

X

X

X

X

X

Pause

X

X

X

X

X

X

Resume

X

X

X

X

X

X

Create Template

X

X

X

X

X

X

Move Disk Image 1

X

X

X

X

X

X

Hot Migrate 2

X

X

X

X

X

X

Checkpoint

X

X

X

X

X

X

Restore

X

X

X

X

X

X

Install Orchestrate Agent

X

X

X

X

X

Make Standalone

X

X

X

X

X

X

Check Status

X

X

X

X

X

X

Personalize

X

X

X

X

Save Config

X

X

X

X

X

X

Cancel Action

X

X

X

X

X

X

Check Host Assignment

X

X

X

X

X

X

Launch Remote Desktop

X

X

X

?

X

X

1 A “move” is the relocation of VM disk images between two storage devices when the VM is in a not running state (this includes VMs that are suspended with a checkpoint file).This function does not require shared storage; the move is between separate repositories.

2 A “hot migrate” (also called a “live migrate”) is the migration of a running VM to another host and starting it there with minimal resulting downtime (measured in milliseconds). This function requires shared storage.

A.2.1 Additional Xen Provisioning Adapter Information

The following characteristics were added to the Xen Provisioning Adapter, effective with the 2.0.2 release:

  • The VM Builder running on a SLES 11 VM host now supports three additional VM OS types:

    • openSUSE 11

    • SLED 11

    • SLES 11

    These OS types are not available for build when you use the VM Builder running on a SLES 10 SP2 VM host. These OS types can only be built and provisioned to a SLES 11 VM host.

  • VMs that were supported on SLES 10 SP2 are supported on SLES11, that is, if the VM was built on SLES 10 SP2, the provisioning adapter supported of that VM on SLES 10S P2 are also possible when the VM runs on SLES11.

  • Although VM migration from a SLES 11 VM host to a SLES 10 SP2 VM host is not supported, VM migration is supported in the following scenarios:

    • VM on a SLES 10 SP2 VM host migrating to a SLES 11 VM host

    • VM on a SLES 10 SP2 VM host migrating to a SLES 10 SP2 VM host

    • VM on a SLES 11 VM host migrating to a SLES 11 VM host

  • Virtual machines built on SLES 10 SP2 can be provisioned on either SLES 10 SP2 or SLES 11 VM hosts.

  • Virtual machines (regardless of OS type) built on SLES 11 cannot be provisioned on a SLES 10 SP2 VM host.