HP Insight Control for VMware vCenter Installation Guide

• Provides a method for software and firmware deployment
1
.
• Provides graphical status indications collected from the HP ProLiant tools, and a graphical
view of the end-to-end network for each host
1
.
• Supports HP VMware ESXi Smart Components
2
.
• Provides the ability to configure vSwitches on a host based on the networks available in the
Virtual Connect profile.
The Storage Module for vCenter:
• Uses the established connection to the vCenter Server to resolve the storage used for each
host, datastore, and VM in the virtual environment. This information is cached in the Insight
Control for vCenter server.
• Uses the configured information for storage arrays in the environment to obtain detailed
information for devices provisioned from the storage arrays to virtual server hosts. This
information is cached in the Insight Control for vCenter server.
• Creates relationships between VMware objects and array storage devices and presents the
information to the vSphere Clients.
Figure 3 (page 6) shows a typical VMware configuration with Insight Control for vCenter integrated
into the environment.
Figure 3 HP Insight Control for vCenter and VMware configuration
1. Firmware deployment is available using the vSphere Client only.
2. Other Smart Components are not supported.
6 Overview