HP Virtual Server Environment Management for Integrity Version 4.0 Release Notes

New Capabilities by Product Area
The following sections list all of the new capabilities available in this release, organized by VSE
product or functional area.
Virtualization Manager
• Display of new managed system types, with meters and links to appropriate management
tools
— HP BladeSystem enclosures
— HP BladeSystem server blades
— Virtual Connect Domain and Virtual Connect Domain Groups
— Logical servers
— HP ProLiant servers
— VMware ESX hosts and virtual machines
— Microsoft Virtual Server hosts and virtual machines
• The System tab has been replaced by a new Visualization tab
— New look and feel improves visualization
— Technology icons replace textual “view links”
— Display of power usage meters where applicable
— Multiple perspectives for viewing managed systems, including Physical and Virtual,
Virtual Machines, Blades, and Logical Servers
• User-configurable preferences for customizing the interface
Application Discovery
• Scalability and performance enhancements to support large configuration of managed
systems (up to 500 systems).
• User interface and help localized to Japanese.
• Discovery of applications on HP Integrity servers running RHEL 5.x and SLES 10.x platforms.
Capacity Advisor
• Improved user interface for better scalability
— Multiple selection is allowed when deleting scenarios, moving workloads, and moving
virtual machines
— Create System and Create Workload accept a list of names for creating more than one
system or workload at a time
— Ability to simulate making servers become virtual machines and making virtual machines
become servers
• In the Scenario Editor, improvements have been made to the What-If Action→Undo, Edit,
or View... page:
— You can delete or edit changes made to a scenario.
— You can modify scaling multipliers directly in this screen.
— Some changes shown as a group can be disabled or deleted as a single group, rather
than individually.
• Utilization limits for scenarios and workloads have been added. Users may now define
when a system is full by specifying utilization limits for CPU, memory, network I/O, and
disk I/O. These limits are honored by the HP Smart Solver and are used when moving
workloads and running reports, and in headroom calculations.
10 New Capabilities