Hitachi Compute Blade Logical VGA SnapShot

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3 Contents Preface... v Intended Audience... vi Release Notes... vi Referenced Documents... vi Document Conventions... vi Convention for storage capacity values... viii Getting Help... viii Comments... viii Overview Version information before start Overview of the Logical VGA SnapShot Procedure How to Login How to Change a Password LP Web System Menu How to Logical VGA SnapShot Image LP Web System Error Screen Notes Contents iii

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5 Preface This document describes how to use the Logical VGA Snapshot. This preface includes the following information: Intended Audience Release Notes Referenced Documents Document Conventions Convention for storage capacity values Getting Help Comments Notice: The use of Logical VGA Snapshot and all other Hitachi Data Systems products is governed by the terms of your agreement(s) with Hitachi Data Systems. Preface v

6 Intended Audience Release Notes This document is intended for the personnel who are involved in planning, managing, and performing the tasks to prepare your site for Compute Blade installation and to install the same. This document assumes the following: The reader has a background in hardware installation of computer systems. The reader is familiar with the location where the Compute Blade will be installed, including knowledge of physical characteristics, power systems and specifications, and environmental specifications. Release notes contain requirements and more recent product information that may not be fully described in this manual. Be sure to review the release notes before installation. Referenced Documents Compute Blade documents: Hitachi Compute Blade 2000 USER'S GUIDE Hitachi Compute Blade 500 Series Logical partitioning manager User's Guide Hitachi Compute Blade 2500 Series Logical partitioning manager User Guide Document Conventions The term "Compute Blade" refers to all the models of the Compute Blade, unless otherwise noted. The Hitachi Virtualization Manager (HVM) name has been changed to Hitachi logical partitioning manager (LPAR manager, or LP). If you are using HVM based logical partitioning feature, substitute references to Hitachi logical partitioning manager (LPAR manager, or LP) with HVM. This document uses the following typographic conventions: Bold Italic Convention Description Indicates text on a window, other than the window title, including menus, menu options, fields, and labels. Example: Click OK. Indicates a variable, which is a placeholder for actual text provided by the user or system. Example: copy source-file target-file Note: Angled brackets (< >) are also used to indicate variables. vi Preface

7 Convention screen/code Description Indicates text that is displayed on screen or entered by the user. Example: # pairdisplay -g oradb < > angled brackets Indicates a variable, which is a placeholder for actual text provided by the user or system. Example: # pairdisplay -g <group> Note: Italic font is also used to indicate variables. [ ] square brackets Indicates optional values. Example: [ a b ] indicates that you can choose a, b, or nothing. { } braces Indicates required or expected values. Example: { a b } indicates that you must choose either a or b. vertical bar Indicates that you have a choice between two or more options or arguments. Examples: [ a b ] indicates that you can choose a, b, or nothing. { a b } indicates that you must choose either a or b. underline Indicates the default value. Example: [ a b ] This document uses the following icons to draw attention to information: Icon Meaning Description WARNING WARNING This indicates the presence of a potential risk that might cause death or severe injury. CAUTION NOTICE CAUTION NOTICE This indicates the presence of a potential risk that might cause relatively mild or moderate injury, and also indicates the note during operation. This indicates the presence of a potential risk that might cause severe damage to the equipment and/or damage to surrounding properties. Note This indicates notes not directly related to injury or severe damage to equipment. Tip This indicates advice on how to make the best use of the equipment. The following table shows abbreviations of logical partitioning manager and logical partition. Term logical partitioning manager logical partition LPAR manager or LP LPAR Abbreviation Preface vii

8 Convention for storage capacity values Physical storage capacity values (for example, disk drive capacity) are calculated based on the following values: Physical capacity unit Value 1 kilobyte (KB) 1,000 (10 3 ) bytes 1 megabyte (MB) 1,000 KB or 1,000 2 bytes 1 gigabyte (GB) 1,000 MB or 1,000 3 bytes 1 terabyte (TB) 1,000 GB or 1,000 4 bytes 1 petabyte (PB) 1,000 TB or 1,000 5 bytes 1 exabyte (EB) 1,000 PB or 1,000 6 bytes Logical storage capacity values (for example, logical device capacity) are calculated based on the following values: Logical capacity unit Value 1 block 512 bytes 1 KB 1,024 (2 10 ) bytes 1 MB 1,024 KB or 1,024 2 bytes 1 GB 1,024 MB or 1,024 3 bytes 1 TB 1,024 GB or 1,024 4 bytes 1 PB 1,024 TB or 1,024 5 bytes 1 EB 1,024 PB or 1,024 6 bytes Getting Help Comments The Hitachi Data Systems customer support staff is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. If you need technical support, log on to the Hitachi Data Systems Portal for contact information: Please send us your comments on this document: doc.comments@hds.com. Include the document title, number, and revision, and refer to specific sections and paragraphs whenever possible. All comments become the property of Hitachi Data Systems Corporation. Thank you! viii Preface

9 1 Overview This chapter describes the Logical VGA SnapShot overview. Version information before start Overview of the Logical VGA Snapshot Overview 1-1

10 Version information before start LP Web System may display different contents depending on the logical partitioning manager firmware version. So, this document uses "LP Web System" for the explanation of screen and operations hereafter. If your system shows HVM Logical VGA SnapShot Web System, read the following explanations of "the LP Web System" with it. 1-2 Overview

11 Overview of the Logical VGA SnapShot LPAR manager provides Logical VGA SnapShot, which can view or acquire the images that a guest OS running on each logical partition has output on the display unit. With this function, the images output on the display unit by each LPAR (logical partition) can be acquired as snapshots (still images) at any time. To do this, the Web browser on an external console will access the Web server to acquire the snapshot images provided by the LPAR manager. Telecommunication over http can be disabled by one of the HVM Management Commands, namely one of the HvmSh commands. (Note that rebooting the target LPAR manager is necessary to disable telecommunication over http.) For the detail, see HVM Management Command (HvmSh) Operation Guide. (1) Logical VGA SnapShot Configuration Diagram The following figure shows the Logical VGA SnapShot configuration. LPAR manager LPAR1 Guest OS (c) External console Web browser image acquisition request image display (b) snapshot image acquisition Web server image acquisition (a) virtual VGA device : : : LPARn Guest OS image data writing image data writing (a) virtual VGA device : The Logical VGA SnapShot function consists of the following three components. (a) Virtual VGA Device Virtual VGA device is used for the guest OS to write image data. For further information on the specifications, see the following table. The following virtual VGA device is required to the LPAR. Table 1-1 Virtual VGA Device Specifications Item Description VGA specification Standard VGA VBE3.0 (SVGA) Support mode (*1) VGA mode 720 x 200 pixels 16-color text mode (Mode03h) (*2) 640 x 480 pixels 16-color graphic mode (Mode12h) SVGA mode Resolution: 800 x 600; 1024 x 768 Color: 256 colors; colors; colors Overview 1-3

12 (*1) If any other than VGA or SVGA mode is set, no snapshot image can be obtained. (*2) Strings the logical BIOS outputs to the text mode VGA are displayed also on the OS console (guest screen) of each LPAR. (b) Snapshot Image Acquisition Web Server Web server is incorporated inside the LPAR manager. By receiving a snapshot image acquisition request from the Web browser, the Web server will obtain and return the images in virtual VGA device to the Web browser. (c) External console External console operates the Web browser for displaying snapshot images. (2) Pre-settings for use of the Logical VGA SnapShot The following table shows the recommended settings on external consoles and the web browser on a server where you operate the Logical VGA SnapShot. 1-4 Overview

13 Table 1-2 Recommended setting value when using Web Browser Item Recommended setting value 1 Recommended resolution for the VGA screen of the external console: 1280 x 1024 When setting the resolution other than mentioned above, the display may not accommodate the VGA capture screen. If so, use the scroll bar on the browser. 2 Recommended Web browser: Microsoft Internet Explorer*. If any Web browser other than this is used, operation is unpredictable. 3 JavaScript should be set available because JavaScript is used for automatic update of the Logical VGA SnapShot screen. 4 Popup window should be enabled in the setting of the Web browser. Otherwise, the window for enlarged screens of the Logical VGA SnapShot may not open properly. 5 Select TLS v1.0 or higher in web browser optional setting. 6 Register URLs to be accessed through LP Web System as a trusted site. 7 Confirm security settings for trusted sites. 8 Add URLs to be accessed through LP Web System to a list for compatibility view. (for Internet Explorer 10 or higher) *The following table shows the supported Internet Explorer version and the supported LPAR Manager firmware version. Server blade Internet Explorer version BS 1000 Xeon 56-XX N/A CB 2000 Standard or later or later High-performance or later or later CB 320 PCI-expansion or later N/A CB or later CB 2500 CB 520H or later CB 520X or later Overview 1-5

14 A web browser does not work as expected depending on the settings of the web browser, such as a case when you have configured high levels of security settings. In such cases, configure the following settings. Note that items which are displayed on windows vary depending on version of Internet Explorer. (a) Adding a URL as a trusted site Add URLs to be accessed through LP Web System as trusted sites according to the sub-steps below. 1. From the menu-bar, click Tools and then select Internet Options. In the "Internet Options" window opened, click Security tab. 2. Click Trusted sites icon and then click Sites button. 3. The "Trusted sites" sub-window opens. In Add this Web site to the zone text box, type a URL to be accessed through LP Web System ( where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx denotes the LP IP Address found on "System Configuration" page of the LP Screen). Click Add button and confirm that the typed URL is added to Websites list there under. 4. Add other URLs if you need. When done, click Close button to close the "Trusted sites" sub-window. In setting up an Internet Explorer 8 of web browser, move onto step 5. In other cases, move onto step Click Security tab. 6. Check Play animations in webpages checkbox. 7. Click OK button to close the window. 1-6 Overview

15 On Security tab in the "Internet Options" window returned, see if a particular security setting for the "Trusted sites" zone is appropriate according to the sub-steps below. 8. With Trusted sites icon still selected, click Custom Level button in the "Security level for this zone" group box. 9. With the "Security Settings" sub-window opened, scroll down the "Settings" field until you find the "Active scripting" setting. Check if Enable radio button is selected for this setting and, if not, select Enable radio button for this setting. 10. With the "Security Settings" sub-window opened, scroll down the "Settings" field until you find the Allow Meta Refresh setting. Check if Enable radio button is selected for this setting and, if not, select Enable radio button for this setting. When done, click OK button to close the "Security Settings" sub-window. 11. In the "Internet Options" window returned, click OK button to close the window. 12. From the menu-bar, click Tools and then select Compatibility View settings. In the "Compatibility View Settings" window opened, input the URL of a website and then click Add button. When done, click Close button to close the "Compatibility View Settings" window. Overview 1-7

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17 2 Procedure This chapter describes the Logical VGA SnapShot procedure. How to Login How to Change a Password LP Web System Menu How to Logical VGA SnapShot Image LP Web System Error Screen Notes Procedure 2-1

18 How to Login (1) Login Using the Web browser on an external console, access the Web server for acquiring snapshot images provided by the LPAR manager. The URL of the server is as follows: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx indicates the LP IP address (v4). Take note that you are required to set an IPv4 IP address to an LPAR manager when you desire to perform the Logical VGA SnapShot feature to the LPAR manager. After setting an IPv4 IP address to an LPAR manager, you can confirm the LP IP address (v4) on the System Configuration screen. (2) Login screen (Normal) To login the LP Web System, a user ID and a password is requested. The following table shows the default values. It s recommended that you see the LPAR manager user s guide for CB 2500 or CB 500 when you use LPAR manager firmware version or higher. Table 2-1 Login User ID and Login Password Item Default value Login User ID Login Password admin password Procedure

19 Table 2-2 Screen description # Description 1 Login User ID 2 Login Password 3 When login is successful, the snapshot screen is displayed. This screen shows all LPAR VGA images, LPAR When you click Change Password, the screen to change the password is displayed. However, when you use LPAR manager firmware version or higher, the screen isn t displayed. (3) Login screen (JavaScript: disabled) To login the LP Web System, enabling JavaScript setting is required. If JavaScript setting is disabled in the browser, the following screen will be displayed. Procedure 2-3

20 (4) Login screen (Cookie: disabled) To login the LP Web System, enabling Cookie setting is required. If Cookie setting is disabled in the browser, the following screen will be displayed. 2-4 Procedure

21 How to Change a Password The way of changing a password is described. However, when you use LPAR manager firmware version or higher, a password cannot be changed. For the detail, see the part for user authentication in the LPAR manager user s guide. (1) Change password screen Make sure to save LP configuration information on [LP Menu] screen or [Logical Partition Configuration] screen before changing a password. Without saving LP configuration information, the following problems will occur. EFI driver information configured on all LPARs will be lost. Guest OSs will not be able to boot up. Follow the steps below to change a password: 1. On [LP Menu] screen or [Logical Partition Configuration] screen, press F9 key to save LP configuration information. 2. Change the password on LP Web System screen Procedure 2-5

22 Table 2-3 Screen description # Description 1 User ID 2 Login password before changed (up to 8 characters) 3 New password (up to 8 characters) 4 Reenter the new password for verification (up to 8 characters) 5 Set button: Clicking the Set button changes a password. When changing a password, all configuration files will be saved, which is noticed in the following window. When clicking Yes in the window above, the password will be changed. 6 Clear the input characters. 7 Go back to the login screen. (2) Change password completion screen When changing a password is completed, the following screen is displayed. 2-6 Procedure

23 (3) Excessive password changes failed screen When failing the password change five times, the following screen appears to show that the Logical VGA SnapShot is unavailable. Procedure 2-7

24 LP Web System Menu This section describes the LP Web system menu screen Table 2-4 Screen description # Description 1 Button linked to the Logical VGA SnapShot screen. Press the button, and the Logical VGA SnapShot screen is displayed. 2 Button linked to the LP Firmware update screen. Press the button, and the LP Firmware update screen is displayed. For details, refer to Hitachi Compute Blade 2000 logical partitioning manager Version Upgrade/ Revision Update Guide. When using the server blade that is not supported, this button is not displayed. 3 Button for logout, with which you can log out from the LP Web System and return to the login screen. 2-8 Procedure

25 How to Logical VGA SnapShot Image Logical VGA SnapShot screen will be displayed once login is successful. Obtaining images in Logical VGA device of each LPAR starts at login and the images is displayed on the Web page. If LPAR is not in active, or the virtual VGA device is not in Mode03h or Mode12h, the conditions will be displayed on the Web page accordingly. Any mode other than Mode03h and Mode12h cannot display images. The below describes the Logical VGA SnapShot screen. The display may be different according to LPAR manager firmware version. (1) Logical VGA SnapShot screen (All LPAR Display) Table 2-8 Screen description # Description 1 All LPAR Display: Displays all LPAR screens. Select LPAR Display: Displays selected LPAR screens. Change of screens is not available when the Logical VGA SnapShot screen is being automatically updated. When you click those tabs, the following message will appear. Procedure 2-9

26 # Description 2 Check all: Put a check mark in boxes of all LPARs displayed in 3 above. Clear all: Remove check marks from boxes of all LPARs displayed in 3 above. You can select a range of LPAR number to check in Select box. Example: If you select LPAR number from 01 to 05 in Select box and click Check Lpar, the select box corresponding from LPAR1 to LPAR5 are checked. If you select LPAR number from 01 to 05 in Select box and click Clear, the select box corresponding from LPAR1 to LPAR5 are unchecked. The button is disabled when Logical VGA SnapShot screens are being automatically updated. 3 LPARs check box - A number shown right side of check box is the LPAR number. The maximum number is showed in the LPARs' check box. - The check boxes are not available while Logical VGA SnapShot screens are being automatically updated. - The displayable LPAR number is the same as the definable LPAR number of maximum. 4 Start snapshotting: Start automatic updating of Logical VGA SnapShot screen at 2 second intervals per LPAR. Stop snapshotting: Stop automatic updating of Logical VGA SnapShot screen Procedure

27 # Description 5 change display size button Every time you press the button, the display size is switched between 4 columns and 8 columns. from 4 to 8 columns from 8 to 4 columns This button is not available while Logical VGA SnapShot screens are being automatically updated. 6 Logical VGA SnapShot screen of each LPAR When you click a Logical VGA SnapShot screen of each LPAR, the enlarged view will appear. When Logical VGA SnapShot screens are being automatically updated, however, an enlarged view will not appear. The following message will appear, instead. A function, right-click to save the screen, is available for Logical VGA SnapShot screens of each LPAR. To save a screen, right-click on the screen to display the menu and save it. 7 Go to menu: Goes to the menu screen. Logout: Logs out of the Logical VGA SnapShot screen. The following key operations are disabled in enlarged screens of the Logical VGA SnapShot. - Update by F5 key - Return to the previous screen by Backspace key Procedure 2-11

28 (2) Logical VGA Snapshot screen (Select LPAR Display) This section describes automatic updating of the Logical VGA SnapShot screen. 1 2 Table 2-9 Screen description # Description 1 When you click Select LPAR Display button with Select boxes of LPARs checked, selected LPAR screens will be displayed. With no Select box checked, nothing is displayed. 2 Logical VGA SnapShot screens of selected LPAR numbers will be displayed in ascending numeric order. The following key operations are disabled in enlarged screens of the Logical VGA SnapShot. - Update by F5 key - Return to the previous screen by Backspace key Selected LPAR screens will be changed when: Table 2-10 Screen description Change timing of selected LPAR screens When you select LPARs and then click Select LPAR Display button in the [All LPAR Display] screen. When you click Start snapshotting button in the [Select LPAR Display] screen. When you click change display size button in the [Select LPAR Display] screen Procedure

29 (3) Enlarged screen of the Logical VGA SnapShot A logical VGA Device of each LPAR can be enlarged. This section describes enlarged screens of the Logical VGA SnapShot Table 2-11 Screen description # Description 1 The VGA capture screen per LPAR can be clicked. Clicking the screen [1], its enlarged VGA screen [2] is displayed. 2 Display the enlarged VGA capture screen of the selected LPAR. The image size is fixed to 640 x Enlarged capture screens of the logical VGA can be updated by hand. Press the SnapShot Update button, and the VGA capture screen is updated by hand. The VGA capture, however, does not allow multiple requests to be issued. Therefore, the SnapShot Update button is disabled during updating other screens. SnapShot Update button in the enlarged screen is disabled during the automatic update as well. "Right-click and save the image" is also disabled in the enlarged screen. The following key operations are disabled in enlarged screens of the Logical VGA SnapShot. - Update by F5 key - Return to the previous screen by Backspace key The enlarged screen may not be updated in Internet Explorer 9.0. In this case, the enlarged screen can be updated by following procedures. Click SnapShot update button. Click Internet Options > Setting of Temporary Internet files > Every visit to the page of Check for newer versions of stored pages. Procedure 2-13

30 (4) Logical VGA snapshot screen in automatic update Table 2-12 Screen description # Description 1 When you click Start snapshotting, the screen will be automatically updated. 2 Screens of selected LPARs will be automatically updated in numeric order, which takes 2 seconds per LPAR. Logical VGA snapshot screen are not to be updated at the same time. 3 The following message is displayed during update. The logical snapshot of LPAR1 is being updated. The following key operations are disabled in enlarged screens of the Logical VGA SnapShot. - Update by F5 key - Return to the previous screen by Backspace key 2-14 Procedure

31 LP Web System Error Screen This section describes the LP Web System Error Screen of the Logical VGA SnapShot. (1) Login authentication failure The following screen is displayed when login authentication fails Table 2-13 Screen description # Description 1 Display an error title. 2 Display the error message and error code are displayed. 3 Go back to the login screen. Table 2-14 Error message # Error message Action 1 Invalid User ID or Password. Please input a correct again User ID and Password on the login screen. (Code: ) Retry login with the correct user ID and password. Procedure 2-15

32 (2) Change password failure This section describes the screen displayed when changing password fails. This screen is displayed in the same format as used in Login Authentication Failure. Table 2-15 Error message # Error message Action 1 You failed to change passwords because the character string you entered in the "User ID" or "current Password" field did not consist of up to 8 one-byte alphanumeric characters. Please enter your correct user ID and password each of which consists of up to 8 alphanumeric characters. (Code: ) 2 You failed to change passwords because the user ID or password you entered in the "User ID" or "current Password" field was wrong. Please enter your correct user ID and correct password. (Code: ) 3 You entered the character string not consisting of up to 8 one-byte alphanumeric characters in the "new Password" field. Please enter a correct password into the "new Password" field. (Code: ) 4 The new password input for the confirmation is different. Please input the same password. (Code: ) Go back to the Change Password screen and input the correct user ID and password. Go back to the Change Password screen and input the correct user ID and password. Go back to the Change Password screen and input the new password correctly. Go back to the Change Password screen. Next, input a password at the New Password field and then input the same password at the Verify Password field Procedure

33 (3) Session closed screen When closing the session, the session closed message is displayed. The error code is not displayed due to a problem in operation. Table 2-16 Error message # Error message Action 1 Session closed. Please login again. Go back to the Login screen to start over from Login. Procedure 2-17

34 (4) Internal Error screen This section describes the screen caused by internal errors such as file open error and internal process conflict not by the user operation. Re-login is noticed. If the re-login cannot solve the problem, contact our maintenance personnel. (5) Server Access unavailable screen While LPAR manager is booting or rebooting, an error screen may appear if the Web server has not started. When the screen is displayed, wait for a while and then access LPAR manager again Procedure

35 Notes Only one user is allowed to access an LP Web System. When a user logs into an LP Web System with another user using the LP Web System, the former is allowed to start using the LP Web System and the access to the LP Web System from the latter is cut off. Accessing LP Web System When accessing an LP Web System, Security Warning dialog may appear, however there is no problem with the system. Continue your operation. Note that when using Internet Explorer 7 or higher, the window may not close. In this case, click Yes to close the window. Deleting browsing history in use of Internet Explorer10 or higher There are cases when a web browser works improperly owing to something wrong with data generated in the past. In such cases, delete a browsing history. 1. Click the Safety button, and then click Delete Browsing History. 2. Select Temporary Internet files and Cookies and then push the Delete button. Procedure 2-19

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