HP Insight Management 7.2 Update 2 Support Matrix

Table 12 Insight Control server provisioning hardware requirements for the vSphere (ESXi) or

Hyper-V host

LargeSmallPOC/DemoHardware component

Any ProLiant G6, G7, or Gen8 server with an iLO processorServer

844Processor

30 GB16 GB16 GBMemory

200 GB (Thick)200 GB (Thick)200 GB (Thin provisioned)Boot disk

Same as bootSame as bootSame as bootData disk

A new appliance is configured with two network interfaces but can be configured to use

one or both of them. Appliances upgraded from a previous version will have a single

interface, but can have a second one added if desired.

Network adapter

CAUTION: HP strongly recommends using thick (VMware) or fixed size (Hyper-V) disk provisioning. If you use thin

provisioning and your VM host disk runs out of space, the appliance will crash and may not recover. You will need to

install a new appliance and restore from backup.

Table 13 Insight Control server provisioning solution limits and scalability

ValueSolution limits and scalability

Up to 2500 serversServers

Up to 50 simultaneous deploymentsSimultaneous deployments

Insight Control server provisioning requires a media server to store the OS distribution, Windows

captured images for image deployment, and the full SPP version(s). The media server is a system

separate from the Insight Control server provisioning appliance and can be based on either

Windows or Linux, but must be configured as described in the Insight Control server provisioning

documentation found on the HP website http://www.hp.com/go/insightcontrol/docs. A special

Media Server Setup Utility is provided which will automate the configuration of a Windows system

as a media server.

If you will be performing any of the following functions, Insight Control server provisioning requires

that a WinPE service OS be built and then uploaded to the appliance.

• PXE booting the WinPE service OS

• Windows installations using the PXE service OS

• Any Windows image capture or deployment operations

A WinPE generation utility is provided and must be run on a configured Windows server. If your

media server is a Windows system, you can use this same server to generate WinPE.

NOTE: An uploaded WinPE is required (regardless of server model) for all Windows capture or

deployment operations or if using Matrix infrastructure orchestration (as it always uses PXE).

Software

CMS software

CMS operating systems

This section lists the Microsoft Windows operating systems that are supported on the CMS. For a

list of Windows operating systems that Insight Remote Support supports, go to http://www.hp.com/

go/insightremotesupport/docs. Select your supported version (5.80, 7.0.5, or 7.0.8) and access

the HP Insight Remote Support Release Notes.

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