HCP hardware appliance features such as redundant hardware, monitoring, alerting and failover behavior cannot be used by KVM. To maintain performance and data integrity, HCP VM system hardware must be monitored for failures outside of the virtual machine environment.
Hitachi servers and network components that are part of the HCP VM system can be connected to Hitachi Remote Ops for monitoring. For more information, see Configuring HCP monitoring with Hitachi Remote Ops.
To monitor hardware supplied by vendors other than Hitachi, use a vendor-supplied or hardware-compatible software tool.
Any failures in the HCP VM infrastructure must be corrected as soon as possible. Drive failures in particular should be closely monitored, because of the possibility of long RAID rebuild times.
HCP Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) monitoring and Hitachi array monitoring is not available for HCP VMs.