HP Matrix Operating Environment 7.1 Release Notes

New software on managed systems
• Operating systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8◦
◦ SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2
◦ HP-UX 11.31 v3 1203 for Integrity blades
• Hypervisors
VMware ESXi 5.0 Update 1◦
◦ HP Integrity Virtual Machines 6.1 for shared guests
New servers that can be managed by Insight Management
• HP ProLiant servers
◦ HP ProLiant BL420c Gen8 server blades
◦ HP ProLiant BL465c Gen8 server blades
New features in Matrix Operating Environment
• HP Capacity Advisor
New Capacity Analysis tool
◦ Combs through utilization data to help locate both immediate and impending problems
in the data center
◦ Provides predefined queries to locate issues such as underused or overused systems,
energy inefficient systems, systems making poor use of licenses, and systems with
configuration issues
◦ Allows users to define new, custom analysis queries to tailor queries to specific needs
◦ Allows users to define the information to be listed in a query's results, thereby creating a
customized report
See the HP Capacity Advisor User Guide at http://www.hp.com/go/matrixoe/docs for more
information.
• Matrix OE infrastructure orchestration (Windows CMS only)
Unique cloud bursting capabilities to HP Cloud Services and Amazon EC2
Increased infrastructure automation, with support for:
◦ Chargeback, which allows allocation costs for resources in a service to be retrieved by
third party applications
◦ Disaster recovery (DR) protected IO services
◦ Logical load balancers
◦ Customizing network attributes when a service is created
◦ Customizing server group attributes when a service is created
◦ Changing the memory size or number of CPUs of a virtual machine
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