Getting Started with HP Systems Insight Manager 7.0 or Greater in a Smaller Windows Environment

Managing storage

Systems Insight Manager has been significantly upgraded to manage storage devices that it supports

through the SMI-S (Storage Management Initiative Specification) standards-based interface. SMI-S

complemented with SNMP enables Systems Insight Manager to detect and configure storage systems

including Fibre Channel-based storage arrays and tape libraries, hosts with HBAs, and Fibre Channel

switches. Storage devices and Fibre Channel infrastructure devices are discovered, events are

monitored, and data is gathered for proactive management and asset reporting.

Specific storage data collection includes vendor, model, device status, array capacity, disk RAID type,

port information, LUN information, firmware level, network addresses, part numbers, and component

serial IDs.

Systems Insight Manager, in conjunction with the HP Insight Management Agents, discovers and

monitors Modular Smart Array (MSA) series storage attached to ProLiant servers. Systems Insight

Manager tracks physical and logical configurations and receives prefailure alerts in a manner

consistent with internal storage resources. Systems Insight Manager also discovers and launches

Command View EVA and Command View XP storage arrays and launches the array management

software running on hosts managed by Systems Insight Manager.

The HP ProLiant Essentials Performance Management Pack (PMP) integrates seamlessly with Systems

Insight Manager to provide hardware bottleneck analysis for MSA storage. PMP provides the

required tools to receive proactive notification of developing bottleneck conditions, and debugs

existing performance issues on MSA500/MSA1000 shared storage devices.

For value-added storage management functionality such as automated storage provisioning,

application management, and chargeback, the HP Storage Essentials suite offers a full set of modules

which can be deployed individually or as a set. Each module is tightly integrated with Systems Insight

Manager, ensuring single sign-on, UI integration, common discovery, and reporting. For more

information on HP Storage Essentials visit

http://www.hp.com/go/storageessentials.