HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software technical documentation and resources

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HPE Morpheus VM Essentials: A deeper look

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HPE Morpheus VM Essentials: Software documentation

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HPE Morpheus Enterprise Community Edition

This includes all of the VM Essentials features and more. Evaluate integrated provisioning and automation for virtual machines, K8s, and public cloud with a 365-day license for up to three sockets (non-production use).

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Step-by-step activation guide

  • Step 1:

    Getting started-Ubuntu installation considerations

  • Step 2:

    Getting started—Installing VM Essentials console and configuring the host

  • Step 3:

    Installing the VM Essentials manager

  • Step 4:

    VM Essentials manager initial setup

  • Step 5:

    Provisioning a HVM cluster

  • Step 6:

    Configuring shared storage: Adding a NFS datastore to the VM cluster

  • Step 7:

    Configuring shared storage: Setting up and adding a GFS2 datastore

  • Step 8:

    Migrating VM Essentials manager to shared storage

  • Step 9:

    Creating VM Essentials custom VM templates

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