HP Insight Control Server Provisioning 7.2 Update 2 Installation Guide

3 Installing your Insight Control server provisioning
appliance for the first time
This chapter provides first time set up steps for getting the HP Insight Control server provisioning
software and installing the virtual machine appliance.
IMPORTANT: If you already have Insight Control server provisioning installed and are installing
an update release (such as 7.2.2), skip this chapter and see “Updating from version 7.2 or 7.2.1
to 7.2.2” (page 26) for the appropriate installation instructions.
Intended audience
This documentation is written for experienced system administrators and assumes you are familiar
with configuring and managing either the VMware vSphere/ESXi hypervisor with VMware vSphere
Client or Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor.
Overview of the first time set up steps
An overview of the first time set up steps is shown below. The links go to the detailed section for
each step.
1. Get the software for a first time install: See “Get the software for a first time install” (page 12).
2. Install the appliance virtual machine on either a VMware vSphere/ESXi hypervisor or Microsoft
Hyper-V hypervisor: See “Install Insight Control server provisioning on VMware vSphere/ESXi
hypervisor” (page 13) or “Install Insight Control server provisioning on Microsoft Hyper-V
hypervisor” (page 15).
3. Log in to the appliance for the first time and configure appliance networking: See “Log in to
the appliance and configure appliance networking” (page 18).
4. Access the appliance from a browser: See “Accessing your appliance from a browser for the
first time” (page 25).
5. Decide whether to use DHCP server internal or external to the appliance: See “DHCP server
setup” (page 34).
6. Set up your Media Server: See “Setting up the Media Server” (page 37).
7. Generate and upload WinPE: See “Generating and uploading WinPE to the appliance”
(page 43).
Get the software for a first time install
Insight Control server provisioning is delivered pre-installed on a virtual machine (VM) that is
optimized to run the application. The Insight Control server provisioning VM is downloadable from
the web as a ZIP file.
HP Insight Control server provisioning is also available on USB flash drive from the media kit. You
can order the media from: http://www.hp.com/go/insightcontrol.
To install for the first time you will be installing the full appliance. You will be selecting to install
either a full appliance for VMware vSphere/ESXi or a full appliance for Microsoft Hyper-V
depending on which hypervisor you intend to deploy to. (If you already installed an earlier version
of Insight Control server provisioning then you need to do an update instead of installing the full
appliance see “Updating from version 7.2 or 7.2.1 to 7.2.2” (page 26) for the appropriate
upgrade instructions).
Because the contents of the media or ZIP file downloads can change with each release, see the
README on the media or in the ZIP file for a complete list of the files.
Use the following instructions to get and install the Insight Control server provisioning full appliance.
12 Installing your Insight Control server provisioning appliance for the first time