Installing and upgrading to HP Insight Software 6.2 on Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Clusters with SQL Server 2008 for high availability

4
Introduction
T
he HP Insight
Software media
set
provides
an int
e
grated
installer
to
quickly
and
a
c
c
u
rately
deploy,
c
onfig
u
re, integrate,
and update
HP Insight Software
produ
c
ts. The
individ
u
al
components
delivered
with HP Ins
ig
ht Software 6
.
2 inc
l
ude:
•
H
P Insight Software Installer
: A wizard
-
based instal
l
er
u
s
ed to simpl
i
fy the installa
t
ion,
c
onfig
u
ration,
and integration
of HP Insight Software.
•
H
P Systems Insight Manager (SIM)
: The Central Management Server (CMS) that provides
unified
foundat
i
on management
se
rvic
e
s f
o
r HP ser
v
ers, st
o
rage, and network r
e
s
o
u
r
c
e
s from a sing
l
e
co
n
so
l
e.
HP
S
IM
d
eli
v
ers
c
e
ntr
a
lized
f
a
ul
t
,
configuration,
inventory, performa
n
c
e
management,
warranty details,
automated
service call initiation,
and troubleshooting infor
m
ation.
HP SIM is built
acc
o
rding
to
i
ndustry stan
d
ards to manage HP and
non
-
HP infrastructure
reso
u
r
c
e
s.
•
HP BladeSystem Integrated
Manager
:
Graphi
c
al
u
s
er
interface
(GUI) u
s
ed
to
discover,
monitor,
and
administer
HP BladeSystem
en
c
l
os
u
r
es and manag
e
d
c
omponents,
in
c
l
u
d
ing servers
(ProLiant
and
Integrity),
storage,
power, and
c
ooling.
T
h
is
compo
ne
nt is instal
l
ed with HP SIM.
•
HP Insight R
e
mote Support Advance
d
: (
N
ot provided
on the Insight
S
oftware media
set;
link to
download is
provided
instead.)
R
emote
s
u
pport
tool
t
h
at provides
remote monitoring
to supple
m
ent
loc
a
l monitoring of HP SIM.
It also provides r
e
a
l
-
time
h
ardware eve
n
t monitoring
a
nd secur
e
s e
v
ent
submission
to
HP Support
to help identify
and pre
v
ent potentially
c
riti
c
al proble
m
s on HP ProLiant
ser
v
ers, HP
-
U
X and Linux
-
b
a
sed Integ
r
ity ser
v
e
r
s, and their
associated
internal
devi
c
e
s.
•
HP In
s
ight C
o
ntr
o
l
: HP Insight Control is essential server
management
software that unlocks the
management
c
apabilities
built
into
yo
u
r
HP ProLiant
servers. I
n
sight
Control delivers powerful
c
apabilities
that
enable
you
to
proa
c
tively
manage
ProLiant ser
v
er healt
h
—
whether
physi
c
al
or
virt
u
al,
deploy
ProLiant
servers q
u
ic
k
ly,
impro
v
e power
c
onsumption,
and
c
ontrol ProLiant
servers
from anywhere.
–
HP Insight Control power manageme
n
t:
Provides
power
c
ons
u
mption
and
thermal o
u
tput
monitoring
to
enhance
data
c
enter
power
and
c
oo
l
ing. Inc
l
udes po
w
er re
g
u
lat
i
on policies for
grou
p
s of HP
ProLiant servers.
–
H
P Insight Control server deployment:
T
h
e tool that
c
o
nfigures and deploys multiple
ser
v
ers
quickly and predi
c
tably
in
an unattended
fashion using s
c
ripts
and system im
a
ges. In
c
l
u
d
es
predefi
n
ed
sc
ripts to co
n
fi
g
ure HP
s
erv
e
r har
d
ware and deploy
operating
systems for Windows
and Linux platforms.
–
HP Insight Control performance management:
Insight
Control performance management de
t
ec
t
s,
analyzes,
and explains
hardware
c
o
nfigurati
o
n iss
u
es
and
performan
c
e
bottlenecks on HP
ProLiant servers, virtu
a
l machines, and MSA shared st
o
rage. It provides the too
l
s
you n
e
ed to
receive pro
a
ctive notification of
building
bottleneck
c
o
nditions
and
to
d
e
b
u
g
existing
performan
c
e
issu
e
s
.
–
HP Insight Control virtual machine management:
Vir
t
ual machine
m
a
nagement tool that provides
uni
f
ied vir
t
ual machine management of
physical
and virtu
a
l server resou
r
c
e
s within HP
SIM.
Supports
VMware ESX,
Citrix
XenSer
v
er, and M
i
cr
o
s
oft Hyper
-
V virtual
machi
n
e environmen
t
s
.
–
H
P Insight Control server migration:
Management
software application
that
provides
an
a
u
tomated,
a
c
c
u
rate,
and
affordable
way
to
mig
r
ate existing servers and
their content to the
latest
HP Bla
d
eSystem or ProLiant
server te
c
hnologies,
or the
lat
e
st v
i
rtual
i
zation platforms
from
VMware, Microsoft,
and
Citrix.
S
u
pports physi
c
al
-
to
-
ProLiant
(P2
P
), virtual
-
t
o
-
P
r
oLiant (V2P),
physi
c
al
-
to
-
virtual (P2V),
and
virtual
-
to
-
vir
t
ual (V2V) mi
g
rations.