HP Insight Control Server Provisioning 7.3 Update 1 Installation Guide
Table Of Contents
- HP Insight Control Server Provisioning 7.3 Update 1 Installation Guide
- Contents
- 1 Introduction/overview
- 2 Requirements and networking considerations
- 3 Installing your Insight Control server provisioning appliance for the first time
- Overview of the first time set up steps
- Get the software for a first time install
- Install Insight Control server provisioning on VMware vSphere/ESXi hypervisor
- Install Insight Control server provisioning on Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor
- Log in to the appliance and configure appliance networking
- Accessing your appliance from a browser for the first time
- Next steps
- 4 Updating from version 7.2.2 to 7.3.1
- 5 DHCP server setup
- 6 Setting up the Media Server
- Introduction to the Media Server
- Introduction to the Insight Control server provisioning Media Server setup utility
- Requirements for setting up your Media Server
- Procedure for using the Insight Control server provisioning Media Server setup utility
- Changes made to your web server by Insight Control server provisioning Media Server setup utility
- 7 Generating and uploading WinPE to the appliance
- 8 Recommended actions after initial setup
- 9 Support and other resources
- 10 Documentation feedback
- A Updating from version 7.2 or 7.2.1 to 7.2.2
- Best practices for a successful update to 7.2.2
- Get the 7.2.2 update software and prepare it for use
- Prerequisites for update from 7.2/7.2.1 to 7.2.2
- Instructions for updating from 7.2 or 7.2.1 to 7.2.2
- What you need to do after installing the 7.2.2 update
- Changing from single NIC to multi-NIC (optional)
- Instructions for recovering from a failed 7.2.2 update
- REST API call to upload the 7.2.2 update file
- Glossary
- Index
2 Requirements and networking considerations
Insight Control server provisioning is delivered pre-installed on a virtual machine (VM) that is
optimized to run the application.
Before you install Insight Control server provisioning you need to check the host system requirements,
check the requirements for using the USB media or ZIP file software download and consider which
network configuration you will use.
NOTE: Please check the website http://www.hp.com/go/insightcontrol/docs to see if there is
an updated version of this manual. Check the Edition number and if a newer version exists, please
use that manual instead of this one.
The documentation included with Insight Control server provisioning contains information specific
to setting up and using the product to perform automated provisioning functions on your HP servers.
The users of IC server provisioning are expected to have advanced knowledge of installing and
managing the operating systems and hardware they are using this product to provision.
See the following sections:
• “Appliance VM and host requirements” (page 7)
• “Requirements for using the USB media or ZIP file software downloads” (page 8)
• “DHCP considerations” (page 8)
• “Media Server considerations” (page 8)
• “Considerations for generating WinPE” (page 9)
• “Recommended firmware version” (page 9)
• “Port list” (page 9)
• “Appliance networking considerations” (page 10)
Appliance VM and host requirements
You will need the following environment on your host computer to install and run the Insight Control
server provisioning virtual appliance:
• Either VMware ESXi or vSphere Hypervisor or Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor
Supported versions for VMware hypervisors: VMware ESXi version 5.0, 5.0 U1, 5.0 U2,
5.0 U3 and VMware vSphere version 5.1, 5.1 U1, 5.1 U2
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◦ Supported versions for Microsoft HyperV hypervisors: Microsoft Windows 2012 with
Hyper-V role enabled and Microsoft Hyper-V 2012
IMPORTANT: Make sure your host computer meets the VMware requirements for running
64 bit guest VMs on the host.
◦ For VMware ESXi or vSphere Hypervisor — VMware vSphere Client with VMware tools
installed is required
• The minimum resource requirements for the appliance VM are four 2GHz CPUs and 16GB
of memory. These are the settings your appliance template ships with. Never modify these to
be any lower than that. If you will have large numbers of servers in your appliance, or you
expect to be performing more than 8 simultaneous deployments, you should consider increasing
these resources. Optimal resources for working at scale are 8 CPUs and 30GB of memory.
Be sure your VM host has sufficient resources available for the VM and any hypervisor
overhead.
Appliance VM and host requirements 7