HP Matrix Operating Environment 7.0 Getting Started Guide

Contents
1 Introduction to HP Matrix Operating Environment............................................5
Components of HP Matrix Operating Environment.........................................................................5
HP Matrix OE visualization....................................................................................................6
HP Matrix OE logical server management...............................................................................6
HP Capacity Advisor............................................................................................................7
HP Capacity Advisor Consolidation software...........................................................................7
HP Matrix Operating Environment infrastructure orchestration.....................................................8
HP Matrix Operating Environment recovery management..........................................................8
HP Storage Provisioning Manager..........................................................................................9
Application Discovery...........................................................................................................9
HP Global Workload Manager (gWLM).................................................................................9
HP Instant Capacity software.................................................................................................9
Partition Manager..............................................................................................................10
HP Integrity Virtual Machines Manager.................................................................................10
Product configurations ............................................................................................................10
Features of Matrix Operating Environment..................................................................................11
2 License management.................................................................................15
Matrix OE licensing model .....................................................................................................15
Trial licenses..........................................................................................................................15
End-user license agreement......................................................................................................16
HP ProLiant servers and ProLiant server blades............................................................................16
HP Integrity and HP 9000 servers and Integrity server blades.......................................................17
Non-HP servers......................................................................................................................17
HP Insight Capacity Advisor Consolidation software....................................................................18
Adding and applying licenses .................................................................................................18
Recommended process: Use the managed system setup wizard................................................18
Alternative Process: Use HP SIM License Manager..................................................................18
Setting authorizations....................................................................................................18
Starting the License Manager..........................................................................................19
Order for applying licenses — Windows CMS managed systems........................................19
Scan for HP-UX licenses ................................................................................................19
License requirements for systems with HP Instant Capacity products ..............................................19
Using the CMS password reconfigure tool..................................................................................19
3 Getting Started........................................................................................20
Installing the software..............................................................................................................20
Configuring privilege elevation.................................................................................................20
Using the Insight managed system setup wizard..........................................................................20
Configuring user authorizations................................................................................................21
Configuring data collection credentials......................................................................................21
About the HP Capacity Advisor Data Collection Service...............................................................21
Configuring data metrics to better reflect your environment......................................................22
Solving utilization data collection problems...........................................................................22
Removing unneeded agent software..........................................................................................23
Using Matrix OE visualization..................................................................................................24
Start Matrix OE visualization From HP SIM ...........................................................................24
Matrix OE tabs..................................................................................................................25
Matrix OE menu bar .........................................................................................................25
Matrix OE tool bar ............................................................................................................28
Customizing collections and home page ..............................................................................30
Creating custom collections............................................................................................30
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