Test Name
Blade Test Remote Console/KVM availability for all
hosts
Blade Test Reboot
Blade Test Network Redundancy
Blade Test fibre channel Redundancy
Blade complete virtual connect module failure
Redundancy
Blade loss of power from one power supply bank
VMware Auto-Deploy able to automatically deploy
hosts
VMware Test login to vCenter Servers
vDistributed switch configuration successful backup
and restore
VMware Test vMotion and Storage vMotion
VMware Test Maintenance Mode
VMware Test Standby Mode
VMware Test High Availability
VMware Test Fault Tolerance
Add and Remove a LUN/Datastore using vCenter
Deploy SOE from VMware Template with customisation
VMware Test AD Login to ESXi Host
Test VMware Update Manager successful deploy
patches
Test vCenter Operations Manager
Test vCenter Configuration Manager
Test vCenter Infrastructure Navigator
Test Objective
Confirm that all hosts are accessible with remote console/KVM
Confirm that hosts are able to boot without errors in the BIOS
level
Confirm that networks connections between virtual connect
flex modules on back of chassis and network switch are
redundant.
Confirm that fibre connections between virtual connect flex
modules on back of chassis and fibre switch are redundant.
Confirm that the chassis and underlying Hosts and ESXi hosts
are still able to function with a complete loss of one virtual
connect flex module.
In a modern datacenter all power should come from 2
separate power supply banks, usually an A and a B. This test
simulates if one of the power supply banks would fails to the
Blade chassis.
Ensure VMware Auto-Deploy is able to automatically deploy
hosts
Ensure successful login to vCenter Servers with vSphere Client
and Web Client across both datacenters and ensure VMware
SSO (Single Sign On) working
Ensure vDistributed switch configuration successful backup
and restore
Demonstrate vMotion of VM across hosts and Storage vMotion
across datastores. Perform vMotion across chassis to check
cross chassis communication is ok.
Demonstrate automatic vMotion of VM from host entering
maintenance mode, 1 in each datacenter.
Ensure ESXi host can enter standby state and resume back
(needed for DPM to work properly)
Ensure VMware HA is working in all clusters:
In HP Onboard Administrator forcefully power off the ESXi
hosts and verify in vSphere Client if the alerts are raised and
the test VM has been restarted on another host.
Demonstrate VMware Fault Tolerance
Test Add and Remove a LUN/Datastore using vCenter 3Par
plugin
Demonstrate successful deployment of a VM from a Template
with customisation of IP and other details.
Demonstrate AD authentication on ESXi host level
Demonstrate VMware Update Manager is correctly installed
Demonstrate VMware vCenter Operations Manager
Demonstrate VMware vCenter Configuration Manager
Demonstrate VMware Infrastructure Navigator
Expected Results
All hosts should be accessible with remote console/KVM
All hosts should be reboot without any errors or warnings
With disabled Ethernet ports on virtual connect flex module
A or virtual connect flex module B, all hosts management
interfaces should respond to ping successfully, without
packet lost
With disabled fibre ports on virtual connect flex module A or
virtual connect flex module B, all hosts should still able to
connect and browse the underlying datastores on the
storage array
Even with a disabled virtual connect flex module the
infrastructure should be not affected.
Even with 50% disabled power to the chassis the
infrastructure should continue to work
VMware Auto-Deploy should be able to automatically deploy
hosts
Both vCenter servers should be accessible after login to
each of them as they are setup in Linked Mode
vDistributed switch configuration successful backup and
restore
VM should be able to live migrate across hosts and
datastores
VM should be evacuated from host and host should enter
maintenance mode
Host should enter standby mode and power back on
vSphere should detected Host failure and raise alarm.
VMware HA successfully restarted VM on another host in the
cluster.
Fault Tolerance copy of test VM should still be running when
host running primary test VM is powered off
Add and Remove a LUN/Datastore using vCenter 3Par plugin
should be successful
Working VM based on template with guest customisations
should be completed successfully
AD user should be able to log in to DCUI
Scanning and Remediating (patching) should work correctly
vCenter Operations Manager interface access through the
VIclient or vSphere web client in both sites should be
working
Login to vCenter Configuration Manager interface via
[Link] should be successful
Navigator box shows up in the vSphere web client
