Installing HP Insight Software 6.1 Update 1 on Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Clusters with SQL Server 2008 for high availability

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HP BladeSystem Integrated Manager:
A
Graphical us
er interface (GUI) used to discover, monitor,
and administer HP BladeSystem enclosures and managed components, including servers (ProLiant
and Integrity), storage, power, and cooling. This component is installed with
Systems Insight
Manager
.
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HP Insight Rem
ote Support Advanced:
A
Remote support tool that provides remote monitoring to
supplement local monitoring of
Systems Insight Manager
(n
ot provided on the Insight Software
media set; link
to download is provided instead
)
. It also provides real
-
time hardwar
e event
monitoring and secures event submission to HP Support to help identify and prevent potentially
critical problems on HP ProLiant servers, HP
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UX and Linux
-
based Integrity servers, and their
associated internal devices.
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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 enhance 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 ha
rdware and deploy operating systems for Windows and Linux platforms.
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HP Insight Control performance management:
A p
erformance monitoring tool that enables Insight
Control to proactively detect, analyze, and report performance bottlenecks on HP ProLiant and
Integrity servers, Modular Storage Array storage, and VMware and Microsoft virtual machines,
enabling server workloads to run at peak performance levels.
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HP Insight Control virtual machine management:
A v
irtual machine management tool that
provides unifie
d 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
-
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, Micr
osoft, and Citrix.
Server migration s
upports physical
-
to
-
ProLiant (P2P), virtual
-
to
-
ProLiant (V2P), physical
-
to
-
virtual (P2V), and virtual
-
to
-
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 compl
iance
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 c
entralizes 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
-
based co
nfiguration 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
power, balancing across physical and virtual resources, cost
-
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
Systems Insight Manager
.
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