Each profile was considered a brand new one, and therefore, we had to manually add the virtual environments again to each profile, which is a time-consuming process as each virtual environment can be password protected.

Incident management

There are actually several options for setting policies that would trigger alarms. If they would work properly, they would be of more use, though. For example we tried created a policy using TotalView to watch VMs should CPU usage exceed a certain threshold on VMware machines, as there were not any metrics for XenServer available that went above a certain level.

We also attempted to apply a policy for network usage. We walked through the steps of selecting and applying the new policy and when we tried to view the status of the policy, the application crashed.

TotalView neither adds nor detracts from VM instance or VM farm security in anyway.