HP Insight Dynamics 6.2 Release Notes

• HP Insight Orchestration (infrastructure orchestration) (Windows CMS only)
VMware vNetwork Distributed Switch (vDS)◦
◦ SAN Virtualization Services Platform (SVSP) support for VMware and Hyper-V data stores
◦ Support for HP Integrity VM logical server operations
◦ VLAN tagging for Hyper-V
◦ Server Automation satellite support
Single core server–
– Multiple boot networks (up to 255 IPs) may connect to a single core server
◦ Service “host name customization"
Suffix pattern specification (printf)–
– No-suffix option for single-use templates
◦ API/CLI enhancements
• HP Insight Recovery (recovery management) (Windows CMS only)
Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines can be protected against disasters◦
– Support for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V R2 in a standalone
(non-clustered) configuration
– Technology preview: Microsoft Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V R2 in a clustered
configuration with cluster shared volumes (CSV)
◦ Support for asynchronous mode in Continuous Access replication of EVA storage arrays
• Capacity Advisor
Models the memory for VMware ESX servers including only memory used by each VM,
as if the VM has no reserved memory (the current default setting for ESX). For HP Integrity
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VM and Hyper-V, memory for VMs is still modeled as if all memory is reserved (an earlier
default setting for ESX)
◦ Peak Summary Reports are improved with new graphs
• Logical server management (Windows CMS only)
Cross-technology logical servers
Cross-technology logical servers, which can be moved between servers with Virtual
Connect and ESX virtual machines and between servers with Virtual Connect with unlike
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configurations. Using Insight Recovery, the same type of movement can be accomplished
across sites and used for disaster recovery
Raw Device Mapping (RDM) for ESX virtual machine logical servers, which allows moves
between physical and virtual environments while still accessing the same boot and data
volumes
◦ HP Integrity VM logical servers
Logical server operations performed on HP Integrity VM guests on an HP-UX VM host,
using Shared Logical Volume Manager (SLVM) storage volumes or physical Fibre Channel
disks
◦ New storage pool entry types for integration with Storage Provisioning Manager catalog
entries, which support secure access to automated hostmode setting and masking
operations
◦ Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN)
◦ VMware vNetwork Distributed Switch (vDS)
New capabilities in HP Insight Dynamics 6.2 software 7