HP Insight Software 6.0 Getting Started Guide

The Insight Dynamics features are integrated into the Systems Insight Manager GUI.
Virtualization Manager
The Virtualization Manager component of Insight Dynamics visualizes physical and virtual infrastructure for
ProLiant, BladeSystem, and Integrity servers and allows you, through logical server management, to manage
physical and virtual servers in the same way. A logical server is a set of configuration information that you
create, activate, and move across physical and virtual machines. It contains the logical server definition and
description, including the server compute resources and the server connections to storage fabric and networks.
HP Insight Capacity Advisor
The HP Insight Capacity Advisor feature of Insight Dynamics is a tool for planning server capacity and power.
Through the new Smart Solver technology, it collects and analyzes historical data across thousands of
variables on virtual and physical resources and generates plans for consolidation and rebalancing of existing
workloads.
HP Insight Orchestration
HP Insight Orchestration enables rapid and consistent infrastructure provisioning. It uses a drag-and-drop
visual design tool to easily design simple or complex infrastructure templates, comprised of physical and
virtual servers, storage, and network resources. It automatically provisions from a library of templates through
a web-based self-service portal. It integrates with existing tools and processes using the included work flow
automation engine powered by HP Operations Orchestration.
HP Operations Orchestration (OO) is a system for creating automated procedures called Ops flows and
making them available to IT personnel. Ops flows are made up of operations that each perform a specific
action to maintain, diagnose, and repair a server.
HP Insight Recovery
HP Insight Recovery provides simplified disaster recovery of logical server environments. With a mouse click,
it transfers application environments running on HP BladeSystems or in virtual machines to a remote recovery
site. It utilizes the data replication capabilities of HP storage environments to ensure that application data
is properly transitioned to the recovery location and that the overall transition is measured in minutes, not
days. Insight Recovery is not supported on HP Integrity nor on non-HP servers.
HP Storage Provisioning Manager (SPM)
The HP Storage Provisioning Manager (SPM) is a software tool that provides a service-centric management
interface to storage, allowing storage requests to be fulfilled with available storage services from a storage
catalog. It securely automates storage management tasks alongside the Virtualization Manager. Storage
services are set up using the SPM user interface, after which they are made available to the Logical Server
Manager to fulfill storage service requests.
HP Insight Global Workload Manager
The HP Insight Global Workload Manager for HP Integrity servers is a multi-system workload management
tool to automatically move resources based on business priorities.
HP Insight Capacity Advisor Consolidation
The HP Insight Capacity Advisor Consolidation software is a limited-time-use license for just the capacity
planning capability of Insight Dynamics for ProLiant and Integrity servers. It jump-starts your consolidation
projects by providing consolidation recommendations based on detailed data that eliminates guesswork
and months of tedious capacity planning.
HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager
HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager (VCEM) centralizes network connections and workload mobility for
thousands of HP BladeSystem servers that use HP Virtual Connect to access LANs and SANs. VCEM enables
organizations to increase productivity, respond faster to workload and infrastructure changes, and reduce
operating costs. The core VCEM functionality also provides the foundation for physical server deployment
and workload reprovisioning delivered with HP Insight Dynamics and HP Insight Orchestration.
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