Virtual Host Managers

Virtual Host Managers (VHMs) are used to gather information from a range of client types.

VHMs can be used to collect private or public cloud instances and organize them into virtualization groups. With your virtualized clients organized this way, Taskomatic collects data on the clients for display in the SUSE Multi-Linux Manager Web UI. VHMs also allow you to use subscription matching on your virtualized clients.

You can create a VHM on your SUSE Multi-Linux Manager Server, and use it to inventory available public cloud instances. You can also use a VHM to manage clusters created with Kubernetes.

For more information on using a VHM with Amazon Web Services, see Virtual Host Manager and Amazon Web Services.
For more information on using a VHM with Microsoft Azure, see Virtual Host Manager and Azure.
For more information on using a VHM with Nutanix, see Virtualization with Nutanix.
For more information on using a VHM with VMWare vSphere, see Virtualization with VMware.
For more information on using a VHM with other hosts, see Virtualization with Other Third Party Providers.

1. Direct Hypervisor Querying

Registered physical Linux clients acting as hypervisors (such as KVM) do not require a Virtual Host Manager (VHM) configuration. Instead, if a registered physical host has the Virtualization Host add-on system type assigned, SUSE Multi-Linux Manager queries the system directly using libvirt to gather virtual machine data.

If the hypervisor is managed using the Salt Bundle (venv-salt-minion), see Availability of Salt’s "virt" module inside the Salt Bundle for the required setup.

For more information, see System Types.