HP Insight Control for VMware vCenter Installation Guide (7.3)

• Role-based security—Assign permission to Insight Control for vCenter Single-sign on using the
VMware vCenter server to parcel the level of access and control. For more information, see
the HP Insight Control for VMware vCenter Server User Guide or online help.
• Stability—Monitor and deploy firmware on HP ProLiant vSphere 5.x/ESXi 5.x hosts that have
the HP software bundle installed (firmware deployment is supported with the vSphere Client
only).
• Deployment of vSphere 5.x/ESXi 5.x hosts on bare-metal ProLiant servers directly from VMware
vCenter—Use the HP Insight Control Deployment Wizard available on the home page of the
vSphere Client. The deployment wizard is not supported on the vSphere Web Client, which
uses HP Insight Control Server Provisioning.
• Automated host networking configuration—automatically configure host networking based
on networks available in the Virtual Connect profile. This feature is available only on the
vSphere Web Client on blade servers in a Virtual Connect environment.
In addition to these tasks, when Insight Control for vCenter is installed with Insight Control, you
have the full capabilities of both tools to manage your VMware environment. For more information
about Insight Control capabilities, see the Insight Control documentation on the HP website:
http://www.hp.com/go/insightcontrol/docs
Storage Module for vCenter features
The Storage Module for vCenter enhances VMware functionality by providing details about the
disks presented to the virtual environment. This improved visibility helps administrators make
better-informed decisions when designing, deploying, maintaining, and troubleshooting a virtual
environment. For example, an administrator can use the information provided by the Storage
Module for vCenter to do the following:
• Ensure that mission-critical VMs reside on storage provided by a HP StoreVirtual storage array
meeting established replication requirements.
• Ensure that a production database application is located on the HP EVA RAID 1 storage
volumes that are replicated to a remote datacenter.
• Preserve storage resources when placing a temporary test database on HP MSA NRAID
storage volumes.
From the vSphere Client, the Storage Module for vCenter enables you to do the following:
• Monitor the status and health of HP storage arrays.
• Understand the relationships between physical storage and virtual objects.
VM—VM to datastore mapping and VM to raw device mapping◦
◦ Datastore—Datastore to physical device mapping and datastore to VM mapping
◦ RDM—RDM to physical device mapping and RDM to VM mapping
• Manage LUN and volume connections from VMs, datastores, and hosts (ESX servers) to HP
storage arrays.
• Provision storage on supported HP storage arrays.
• Take advantage of VASA storage API features.
The Storage Module for vCenter supports the VASA storage API from VMware. The VASA API
provides visibility into the physical storage infrastructure through vCenter. VASA capabilities
are supported for HP StoreVirtual, HP EVA, HP MSA, and HP XP arrays.
8 Overview