HP Matrix Operating Environment 7.1 Getting Started Guide

Contents
1 Introduction to the HP Matrix Operating Environment.......................................5
Components of Matrix OE.........................................................................................................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..........................................................9
HP Storage Provisioning Manager..........................................................................................9
Application Discovery...........................................................................................................9
HP Global Workload Manager (gWLM)...............................................................................10
HP Instant Capacity software...............................................................................................10
Partition Manager..............................................................................................................10
HP Integrity Virtual Server Manager.....................................................................................11
Product configurations ............................................................................................................11
Matrix OE features..................................................................................................................12
2 License management.................................................................................17
End-user license agreement......................................................................................................17
Matrix OE managed system licenses.........................................................................................17
Matrix OE managed system licensing model.........................................................................17
Licensed Matrix OE products on managed systems.................................................................18
HP ProLiant servers and ProLiant server blades..................................................................18
HP Integrity and HP 9000 servers and Integrity server blades.............................................18
Non-HP servers.............................................................................................................19
HP Capacity Advisor Consolidation software license..........................................................19
HP Operations Orchestration limited license.....................................................................19
License requirements for managed systems with Instant Capacity products ............................20
Managed system trial licenses.........................................................................................20
Adding and applying managed system licenses ....................................................................20
Recommended process: Use the managed system setup wizard...........................................20
Alternative process: Use HP SIM License Manager.............................................................21
Setting authorizations................................................................................................21
Starting the License Manager.....................................................................................21
Order for applying licenses—Windows CMS managed systems.....................................21
Scan for HP-UX licenses ............................................................................................21
Using the CMS password reconfigure tool.............................................................................22
Matrix OE public cloud managed instance licenses.....................................................................22
Public cloud bursting..........................................................................................................22
Matrix OE Public Cloud Managed Instance license.................................................................23
3 Getting started.........................................................................................25
Installing the software..............................................................................................................25
Configuring privilege elevation.................................................................................................25
Using the Insight managed system setup wizard..........................................................................25
Configuring user authorizations................................................................................................26
Configuring data collection credentials......................................................................................26
About the HP Capacity Advisor Data Collection Service...............................................................26
Configuring data metrics to better reflect your environment......................................................27
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