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

• Stability—Monitor and deploy firmware on HP ProLiant ESXi hosts that have the HP software
bundle installed.
• Deployment of ESX/ESXi 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.
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 VM 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 P4000 storage array meeting
established replication requirements.
• Ensure that a production database application is located on the P6000 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 P4000, P6000 EVA, P2000 G3 MSA, and P9000/XP arrays.
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