HP Insight Control for VMware vCenter Installation Guide (7.1)

1 Overview
HP Insight Control for VMware vCenter Server (Insight Control for vCenter) is a single integrated
application that you use to manage ProLiant servers and/or HP storage systems. The application
consists of three modules. The core module is required along with one or two optional components:
the Server Module for vCenter and Storage Module for vCenter.
Core Module Provides the framework required by the Server Module for vCenter
and Storage Module for vCenter.
Server Module for vCenter Provides server hardware management capabilities, including
comprehensive monitoring, firmware update, ESX/ESXi image
deployment, remote control, end-to-end monitoring for Virtual
Connect, power optimization and for HP servers in a VMware
environment.
Storage Module for vCenter Provides storage configuration and status information for mapping
VMs, datastores, and hosts to LUNs on HP storage arrays.
Supports provisioning on HP 3PAR, P4000, P2000 G3 MSA, and
P6000 EVA storage systems. Supported provisioning tasks include
creating, expanding, or deleting a datastore, and creating or
cloning a VM.
Insight Control for vCenter is integrated with the vCenter management server (also known as vCenter
Server) and the vSphere Client software from VMware. VMware vCenter is used as the single point
of management for VMware virtual environments, which can consist of many standalone or clustered
vSphere configurations. The virtual environment administrator accesses the vCenter management
capabilities using the vSphere Client software.
The Insight Control for vCenter software is installed on a server or a VM and is then configured to
connect and register with a vCenter server. After Insight Control for vCenter is registered with a
vCenter Server, all vCenter clients connected to the vCenter Server can access the Insight Control
for vCenter software.
You can access Insight Control for vCenter via the vSphere .net client or vSphere Web client.
Except where noted below, both clients display the same information, but the page layout differs
slightly. See Figure 1 (page 4) and Figure 2 (page 5).
Figure 1 HP Insight Management Overview — .Net Client view
4 Overview