HP VMware ESXi management environment integration note

Insight Remote Support integration

The HP Insight Remote Support Software is a portfolio of infrastructure remote support software that

automatically provides continuous secure remote support for HP servers and storage. Systems can be

remotely monitored for hardware failure using proven secure technology. In many cases, problems

can be avoided before they occur. HP Insight Remote Support is integrated with HP Systems Insight

Manager (SIM) and provides the following:

 Continuous remote monitoring of the hardware environment

 Automatic event generation and routing

 Alerts to accurately diagnose and receive support

 Proactive advisories to improve the hardware environment.

 Detailed fault analysis of environment hardware

 Warranty and Service Contract entitlement management

HP Insight Remote Support Standard

HP Insight

Remote Support Standard requires access to an encrypted outbound initiated Internet

connection (HTTPS/443). This secured internet technology used is considered acceptable within most

companies' security policies. For customer IT environments with 1 to 10 servers, HP recommends

installing and using the HP Insight Remote Support Standard. From 11 to 50 server environments with

limited IT Staff, HP recommends using HP Insight Remote Support Standard, unless the customer

prefers using HP Systems Insight Manager and the more advanced HP Insight Remote Support Pack.

When a customer's environment grows more complex, it is easy to migrate from HP Insight Remote

Support Standard to HP Insight Remote Support Pack with HP SIM.

HP Insight Remote Support Pack

The HP Insight

Remote Support Pack is the comprehensive remote support software product in the HP

Insight Remote Support software portfolio. It is ideal for use in mid-sized to large IT environments

where customers require a local management console. Incremental to the Insight Remote Support

Standard features, it provides comprehensive remote support, including fault diagnostics, pre-failure

advisories, warranty, and service status. Its console integrates with the HP SIM central management

server console. The console allows the skilled IT operator to set boundaries and thresholds of the IT

environment to be remotely supported. For IT environments with 50 or more servers with technical IT

staff, HP recommends using the HP Insight Remote Support Pack with HP SIM.

HP Virtualization Bundles

The HP Virtualization bundles are the world’s first end-to-end solution that delivers high application

explains how these easy-to-buy

bundles reduce the complexity of virtualization. Many small and mid-sized organizations are using

server virtualization to achieve cost reductions by up to 52% by reducing the number of servers or to

provide cost-effective high availability failover. To take advantage of some of the most critical features

in VMware vSphere, customers need to implement high availability storage area networks. For many

midsized customers, this is a challenge because adding external storage increases their hardware

costs and impacts overall IT management. The HP Virtualization bundles allow an organization to

pool all of the storage that is either inside a ProLiant server or directly attached to it, into one

virtualized pool of storage. Combined with HP ProCurve

data center networking solutions, this allows

an organization to quickly implement a fully virtual infrastructure, with all of its benefits, using pre-

tested building blocks.