End-to-end
management
Architecture
Make the most of your
investments in servers, staff,
and facilities
The server management challenge
Let’s face it. Managing servers can be a huge time crunch. We hear customers say things like: • “Deployment is taking too much time.”
• “Monitoring is insufficient and unreliable.”
• “Unplanned downtime costs too much time and money.” • “There’s no travel budget to fix remote-site servers.” • “Our servers are very underutilized.”
• “I need a solid infrastructure foundation for my cloud efforts.”
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What is HP Insight Control?
HP Insight Control is essential server management that enables you to fully utilize the management capabilities built into your HP ProLiant servers. HP Insight Control gives you more from every dollar, hour, and watt invested in your ProLiant servers. With Insight Control and related services, you can deploy new ProLiant servers quickly and reliably, catalog your environment accurately, proactively monitor server health to pinpoint failures before they result in unplanned downtime, manage ProLiant servers remotely from any location, and optimize power usage confidently. As a result, you can reduce unplanned downtime and deliver stable IT services to your line-of-business users. You can also respond to pressing business needs faster by facilitating the rapid rollout of new IT services and optimizing the utilization of compute resources and data center facilities. Insight Control provides single-console integration with the leading virtualization technologies applications. Insight Control for VMware vCenter Server delivers powerful HP hardware management capabilities to virtualization administrators without ever having to leave the vCenter console. HP Insight Control for Microsoft® System Center provides seamless integration of the unique ProLiant and BladeSystem manageability features into the Microsoft System Center consoles. Insight Control for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) provides HP infrastructure management capability from within the RHEV management console. With these extensions, Insight Control allows you to help maximize your investment in existing systems management tools. Consider just a few examples of savings in cost, risk, and people time when you deploy ProLiant servers with Insight Control. The payback period when you invest in Insight Control is just 4.2 months with a 642 percent ROI.1 • Reduce expenses by up to $73,482 USD per 100 users2 • Increase deployment speed by 12-fold: 20 minutes vs. four hours3 and migration speed by 4-fold4 • Decrease downtime by up to 83 percent5 • Eliminate server maintenance-related travel expenses6 • Server software updates are 4-fold faster7 • Manage 33 percent more servers without adding staff8 • Increase the capacity of your data center by up to three times with Dynamic Power Capping9 1, 2, 5 IDC: “Gaining Business Value and ROI with HP Insight Control Management Software,” March 2012. 3 TTX Company success story, July 2011. 4, 7 HP migration engineering team 2007 benchmark. 6 Remote management with HP Integrated Lights-Out Advanced (iLO). 8 Atlantic Health success story, February 2011. 9 HP Performance Engineering Team, 2008
Architecture
HP Insight Control helps you respond to critical server
management challenges
Provision and migrate servers quickly
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Simplify data center management. Watch this
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first-hand how HP Insight Control for Microsoft System Center
can make it happen.
Control servers from anywhere
Take total control of your ProLiant server at any time, regardless of location, which results in reduced travel budgets and improved system recovery time. HP ProLiant servers feature the next generation of Integrated HP Lights-Out (iLO). With iLO Advanced, included with Insight Control, you can: • Work even faster and experience turbo-charged performance, a streamlined user interface, and enhanced standards support, including Remote Console and Virtual Media • Share a remote console with up to six system administrators to view and share control of a session for collaborative troubleshooting
• Automatically capture video footage of failure sequences, as well as complex configuration operations
Architecture
Insight Control for Microsoft System Center
HP Insight Control for Microsoft System Center extends the best-managed ProLiant experience for customers who have standardized on a Microsoft System Center management platform. • Prevent problems from occurring by proactively monitoring and managing the health of ProLiant servers (running Microsoft Windows®, Linux, VMware, and ProLiant Gen8 agentless) and BladeSystem enclosures, and intelligently responding to hardware events • Deploy bare metal servers quickly and reliably, including pre-deployment hardware and BIOS configuration, and post-OS driver and agent installation updates • Provide detailed component level inventory of managed Windows servers • Maintain consistency and increase uptime with simplified ProLiant driver and firmware updates
Manage server health proactively
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Optimize server power confidently
Deploy your data center on ProLiant and make the most of power by accurately measuring consumption, reducing usage, reclaiming unused power and cooling resources, and up to triple the capacity of your data center. • Measure and regulate power usage, allowing you to know how many servers can be deployed per rack and reducing the cost of operating servers • Cap power usage safely to fit more servers within your existing power envelope • Reduce power consumption during critical times and quickly respond to catastrophic failure events by lowering the power state of non-critical servers or gracefully taking them offline, ensuring your mission-critical services stay up and running • Discover and map servers automatically to specific power outlets using Intelligent Power Discovery, allowing you to accurately correlate equipment and power data, verify redundancy, and eliminate human errors all with simplified routine tasks and processes to save time and money. • Automate configuration using HP Location Discovery Services, the first solution that merges the physical rack with IT equipment to provide automated location awareness of installed servers.
Insight Control for VMware vCenter Server
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Architecture
Insight Control for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
HP Insight Control for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization extends the best-managed ProLiant experience for customers who have standardized on the RHEV management console. • Monitor and manage the HP ProLiant and BladeSystem infrastructure that supports your virtualized environment—all from a single screen • Visually trace and monitor your end-to-end Virtual Connect network—from the RHEV-defined logical network, all the way to the physical switches • Access trusted HP tools with single sign-on to iLO, Virtual Connect, and OnBoard Administrator • Display alerts, events, and notifications in real time from a dedicated newsfeed
