User guide

1 Overview
This guide is designed for system administrators who are familiar with the configuration and
operation of Microsoft Windows, Microsoft System Center Operations Manager, Microsoft System
Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008, and HP Insight Management Agents. Because of the
potential risk of data loss, only individuals who are experienced with using this software should
implement the procedures described in this guide.
Complete information on supported hardware and software is included in the Microsoft System
Center support matrix. For links to the support matrix and other product documentation, see “Related
information” (page 21).
IMPORTANT: The HP ProLiant PRO Management Pack is not intended to manage the basic health
of ProLiant servers or HP Storage products. For information on HP Management Packs for ProLiant
Server and HP Storage products, see “Related information” (page 21).
Introduction
The HP ProLiant PRO Management Pack utilizes the Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO)
feature in Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (SCVMM). The PRO feature
in SCVMM enables you to automate virtual machine migration triggered by certain hardware
events from a server hosting virtual machines.
The HP ProLiant PRO Management Pack is a single management pack containing all the necessary
functional modules. Microsoft refers to this management pack as a PRO Enabled Management
Pack. The HP ProLiant PRO Management Pack contains a similar set of modules that Microsoft
designed for its PRO management pack. Configuration and operations are very similar between
the two PRO management packs.
Product operation
The HP ProLiant PRO Management Pack does the following:
• Monitors HP ProLiant Hyper-V hosts to alert prefailed or warned events as PRO tips.
• Provides a set of predefined monitors and easily enables them as PRO settings from the
management console.
• Migrates all running virtual machines in the prefailed server host to the available hosts within
the cluster or host group.
• Provides interactive virtual machine migration after confirming the PRO Tip message.
• Provides automatic virtual machine migration as a PRO Tip alerts option.
• Supports HP Insight Management Agents.
• Supports Windows Server 2008 x64 and Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V (including
Server Core). For more information on operating system support, see “Related information”
(page 21).
• Supports failover clusters with HP Fibre Channel/iSCSI SAN for critical and warning events
• Supports non-cluster local storage servers for warning events only.
4 Overview