HP Insight Control for VMware vCenter Server Installation Guide (7.0)

Figure 1 HP Insight Management tab
The Server Module for vCenter does the following:
• Provides inventory and status information at the server or cluster level. This information is
collected from HP ProLiant tools such as Onboard Administrator, iLO, Virtual Connect Manager,
HP ESXi Offline Bundle for VMware ESXi, and HP Management Agents for VMware ESX.
• Provides graphical status indications collected from the HP ProLiant tools, and a graphical
view of the end-to-end network for each host.
• Sends events to vCenter based on SNMP traps, WBEM indications, and Onboard Administrator
events.
The Storage Module for vCenter does the following:
• 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 Client.
Figure 2 (page 6) shows a typical VMware configuration with Insight Control for vCenter integrated
into the environment.
Architecture 5