About adding host assets to an IMS
You add several types of assets as hosts to an Infrastructure Management Server (IMS). Host assets that you add to an IMS can include physical systems, virtual machines, and Hyper-V servers, depending on the use case, as described in the table.
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You must add a host to only one IMS. |
Table: Use cases for adding host assets to an IMS
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Use case
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Application discovery and management
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For discovery of supported applications on either physical systems or virtual machines, you must add the physical system or virtual machine as a host.
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For the use case of discovering and managing virtual machines rather than applications, you do not need to add the virtual machines as hosts. |
For discovery of a custom application, after you add the hosts, you must also add the application on the Assets page.
More information is available on adding custom applications.
See Veritas Resiliency Platform Solutions for Applications.
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Hyper-V virtualization server
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Hyper-V servers used for virtualization must be added as host assets, rather than as virtualization servers.
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Hardware replication
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For storage array-based replication, you may need to install array-specific software on a host and add the host to the IMS to use as a discovery host.
See About the discovery host.
More information is available on requirements for adding enclosures for array-based replication.
See Managing enclosure assets for an IMS.
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When you add hosts to an IMS, the IMS installs the host package (VRTSsfmh) on the host. On Linux hosts, the VRTSsfmh package is installed in the /opt directory. On Windows hosts, the VRTSsfmh package is installed in the system drive.
The IMS also installs several add-on packages on the host for use by the IMS discovery:
Before you add hosts to the IMS, ensure that all prerequisites are met.
See Prerequisites for adding hosts to an IMS.
