HP Insight Management 7.0 Support Matrix

Table 13 Insight Management components supported by the cluster platforms (continued)
Supported?Insight Management component
✓Insight Control licensing and reporting
✓Insight Control performance management
✓Insight Control power management
Insight Control server deployment
✓Insight Control server migration
✓Insight Control virtual machine management
✓Insight managed system setup wizard
✓mxsync utility
✓Matrix OE capacity planning, configuration, and workload management and Capacity
Advisor Consolidation software
✓Matrix infrastructure orchestration
✓Matrix recovery management
Insight Remote Support
✓HP Storage Provisioning Manager 2.0 Storage Module
✓Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager
Cluster configuration requirements
• Two-node clusters, consisting of two HP ProLiant servers with attached shared storage, are
supported. Each server must satisfy the hardware and recommended requirements for Insight
Management and the Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise OS, including processor,
memory, networking, and disk space.
See Chapter 2 in this support matrix and the following Microsoft website to validate servers
and storage that are certified for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2:
http://www.windowsservercatalog.com/
• HP recommends SAN shared storage, although any shared storage supported by Microsoft
clustering can be used.
• HP recommends SAN boot for the two cluster nodes.
• Each server requires two dedicated network adaptors, at minimum, one for a public
(client-facing) network and another for a private cluster network. A third dedicated adapter
is needed if an iSCSI SAN is used.
• An Active Directory domain infrastructure and DNS services suitable for hosting the cluster
are required, but they cannot run on either of the two cluster nodes.
Unsupported items in a CMS cluster configuration
• HP P6000 software and VMware vCenter Server are not supported on a CMS cluster node
• The following software has not been tested or certified:
◦ Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1
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