HP Insight Dynamics 6.2 Release Notes

1 Enhancements
Description
The HP Insight Dynamics suite is advanced infrastructure management software that allows you to
analyze and optimize both physical and virtual resources in the same way. HP Insight Dynamics
gives you a powerful toolkit to accelerate complex technology projects and simplify daily operations.
It enables you to plan capacity and power continuously, provision infrastructure consistently, and
balance across physical and virtual resources. It also allows you to ensure cost-effective high
availability for a larger set of applications.
HP Insight Dynamics for ProLiant, HP Insight Dynamics for non-HP servers, and HP Insight Dynamics
- VSE for Integrity are integrated by design, delivering capabilities greater than the sum of its
parts. HP Insight Dynamics is based on proven HP technologies, such as HP Insight Control and
HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM), the world’s most popular platform management tool. HP
Insight Dynamics takes advantage of HP Virtual Connect to bring the flexibility of virtualization to
a physical environment.
• HP Insight Dynamics for ProLiant and HP Insight Dynamics for non-HP servers include capacity
planning, advanced virtualization and logical server management, and Insight Orchestration
capabilities for automated design and provisioning.
• HP Insight Dynamics for ProLiant also includes Insight Recovery for disaster recovery capabilities,
HP Insight Control for advanced power management, performance management, and server
deployment, and extends advanced virtualization management to HP server blades using HP
Virtual Connect technology.
• HP Insight Dynamics - VSE for Integrity includes capacity planning, advanced virtualization
management, global workload management, and support for Integrity blades by HP Integrity
Virtual Machines, HP-UX Workload Manager, and Insight Remote support.
HP Insight Dynamics suite licenses
HP Insight Dynamics suite licenses are available for managing different types of systems, as shown
in the table below. The software is installed on a Central Management Server (CMS) running
Systems Insight Manager, which provides a browser-based user interface. A single CMS can be
used to manage different types of systems. The software is installed on the CMS once, regardless
of how many or what types of suite licenses are purchased.
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