HP Matrix Operating Environment 7.0 Getting Started Guide

HP Storage Provisioning Manager
HP Storage Provisioning Manager (SPM) is a software tool that provides a service-centric
management interface to storage, allowing storage requests to be fulfilled with available storage
services from a storage catalog. It securely automates storage management tasks alongside the
Matrix OE visualization software. After storage policies and storage resources are input to the
storage catalog using the SPM user interface, you can use the Matrix OE logical server management
to request and have storage set up to meet server needs.
For more information, see the HP Storage Provisioning Manager (SPM) User Guide, available at
http://www.hp.com/go/matrixoe/docs.
Application Discovery
Application Discovery helps you identify and learn about the applications and processes running
in your data center or computing network.
With Application Discovery, you can do the following:
• Discover the location and number of recognized, running and installed applications in your
network or data center
• Monitor the activity and resource usage of running processes and applications
• Define and adapt application templates to your environment for better discovery of your
third-party and custom applications, and to make them available for adding to monitored
workloads
• Select the event types for which you want to receive notifications and set their level of
importance
For more information about Application Discovery, see the HP Application Discovery User Guide,
available at http://www.hp.com/go/matrixoe/docs.
HP Global Workload Manager (gWLM)
To access Global Workload Manager (gWLM) from the Matrix OE visualization screen, select the
Shared Resource Domain tab or select one of the items under Tools→Global Workload Manager
from the Matrix OE visualization menu bar. Global Workload Manager improves both workload
performance and resource utilization in a shared computing environment. For servers partitioned
with nPartitions, virtual partitions, virtual machines, psets, or FSS groups, Global Workload Manager
can do the following:
• Monitor each application.
• Determine the CPU resources needed by each application.
• Automatically migrate CPU resources between partitions to where they are needed most. This
migration improves application performance by making more resources available to the
application at times of peak demand. In addition, migrating idle resources to the applications
that are busy increases processor utilization.
For more information about Global Workload Manager, see the HP Global Workload Manager
User Guide, available at http://www.hp.com/go/matrixoe/docs.
HP Instant Capacity software
The Instant Capacity Manager is a web-based interface that can be used to monitor your Instant
Capacity environment. There are several screens available in Instant Capacity Manager, including
an overview of the Instant Capacity resources available, a Global Instant Capacity (GiCAP) group
manager screen to provide more insight into the group managers, and detail screens for GiCAP
groups and Instant Capacity complexes and hosts.
Components of HP Matrix Operating Environment 9