Installing and upgrading to HP Insight Software 6.2 on Windows Server 2003 R2 MSCS for high availability

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HP Insight Control:
HP Insight Control is essential server management software that unlocks the
management capabilities built into HP ProLiant servers. Insight Control delivers powerful
capabilities that enable you to proactively manage
ProLiant server health
—
whether physical or
virtual, deploy ProLiant servers quickly, improve power consumption, and control ProLiant servers
from anywhere.
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HP Insight Control power management:
Provides power consumption and thermal output
monitoring to en
hance data center power and cooling. Includes power regulation policies for
groups of HP ProLiant servers.
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HP Insight Control server deployment:
A
tool that configures and deploys multiple servers
quickly and predictably using scripts and system images. Includes predefined scripts to
configure HP server hardware and deploy operating systems for Windows and Linux platforms.
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HP Insight Control perform
ance management:
Insight Control performance management
detects, analyzes, and explains hardware configuration issues and performance bottlenecks on
HP ProLiant servers, virtual machines, and MSA shared storage. It provides the tools needed to
receive proa
ctive notification of building bottleneck conditions and to debug existing
performance issues
.
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HP Insight Control virtual machine management:
A v
irtual machine management tool that
provides unified virtual machine management of physical and virtual server
resources within
Systems Insight Manager
.
Virtual machine management s
upports VMware ESX, Citrix
XenServer, and Microsoft Hyper
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V virtual machine environments.
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HP Insight Control server migration:
A m
anagement software application that provides an
automated, accurate, and affordable way to migrate existing servers and their content to the
latest HP BladeSystem or ProLiant server technologies, or the latest virtualization platforms from
VMware, Microsof
t, and Citrix.
Server migration s
upports physical
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to
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ProLiant (P2P), virtual
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to
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ProLiant (V2P), physical
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to
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virtual (P2V), and virtual
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to
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virtual (V2V) migrations.
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HP Insight Software Services:
Management services that facilitate component integration and
updates. These services simplify assignment of Insight Control licenses to servers managed by
Systems Insight Manager
and identification of software updates.
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HP Insight Software Advisor:
A t
ool that automatically verifies the target platform for complianc
e
with installation prerequisites. The advisor runs a series of tests on the server and identifies issues
that might affect the Insight Control suite installation or operation.
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HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager (VCEM):
A s
oftware application that centr
alizes network
connection management for HP BladeSystem environments that use HP Virtual Connect to access
LAN, SAN, and converged networks. VCEM provides a central console to administer network
address assignments (MAC and WWN), perform group
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based config
uration management, and
deploy, move, and failover server connections and workloads for hundreds of Virtual Connect
domains and thousands of servers.
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HP Insight Dynamics for ProLiant:
A s
oftware solution that enables continuous planning of
capacity and pow
er, balancing across physical and virtual resources, cost
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effective high
availability, and consistent infrastructure provisioning. HP Insight Dynamics is based on proven
HP technologies, such as HP Virtual Server Environment, HP Insight Control, and HP
Sys
tems
Insight Manager
.
HP Insight Dynamics takes advantage of HP Virtual Connect to bring the
flexibility of virtualization to a physical environment.
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HP Insight Dynamics recovery management:
A component of HP Insight Dynamics that provides
automated disast
er recovery of logical server environments. Logical servers are server profiles
that detach the logical identity from the physical resource. Logical servers that are managed
by