A VM host represents a VM host technology or hypervisor (for example, Xen, Hyper-V, and so on) either installed on a physical resource or accessed by it (in the case of VMware). VM host objects can be used when making provisioning decisions for a resource.
The Cloud Manager Orchestration Server also supports the discovery of VMware vSphere clusters used for high availability in a VMware environment or managed by the VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) after an Orchestration Agent has been deployed into such an environment. In this scenario, the Orchestration Server also allows you to determine when actions have taken place outside of the Orchestration environment, such as when the DRS moves a VM to an alternate host in the cluster or when an administrator moves a VM into a different resource pool (see Setting Up Orchestration to Accommodate VMware DRS Clustering and Updates
in the NetIQ Cloud Manager 2.1.5 Orchestration Installation Guide).
Although the VM host and the VM host Cluster are regarded as two different types of VM host object, and have differing icons, the discovered clusters are represented in the Explorer tree of the Orchestration Console as VM host objects.
NOTE:The Orchestration Console interface (that is, the fields in the admin view) for a VM host and a VM host Cluster are nearly identical. Facts unique to the VM host Cluster are listed in Section 6.7, Unique VM Host Cluster Facts.
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