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Using Multiple Multi-instance AIMs

When you use a CA Server Automation manager with multiple remote AIMs of the same type (vCenter Server, Solaris Zones, LPAR, MSCS, or Cisco UCS) to manage a particular virtual environment, consider the following:

Verify that each vCenter Server, Solaris Zones Server, HMC/IVM Server, or Cisco UCS Server is uniquely associated with one AIM. Use Administration on the CA Server Automation manager user interface or NodeCfgUtil on the appropriate AIM server to remove any ambiguous associations.

If more than one AIM is managing such a server, this causes management, discovery, or monitoring issues.

Example

Three vCenter Servers are managed through two AIMs:

• vCenter Server 1 and vCenter Server 2 are managed through vCenter Server AIM 1.
• vCenter Server 2 and vCenter Server 3 are managed through vCenter Server AIM 2.

In this case, vCenter Server 2 is associated with vCenter Server AIM 1 and vCenter Server AIM 2 which is not unique. You can remove one of these two associations either from AIM 1 or AIM 2 to get unique conditions.