HP Insight Management 7.2 Update 2 Support Matrix

2 Management servers

This chapter provides the minimum hardware and software requirements for three management

servers:

• A required CMS

• An optional HP Matrix KVM Private Cloud management server. For ProLiant customers wanting

to manage a KVM cloud, HP Matrix KVM Private Cloud provides a Matrix KVM Admin Console

appliance which requires its own host.

• An optional HP Insight Control server provisioning management server. For ProLiant customers

wanting to perform multi-server operating system provisioning to bare metal ProLiant and

BladeSystem servers, Insight Control server provisioning is an optional VM appliance.

Hardware and firmware

CMS hardware

Table 3 (page 8) lists the hardware requirements for a single-server CMS.

Table 3 CMS hardware requirements

Requirement

Hardware

component

Any supported HP ProLiant server that fulfills the CPU, memory, and disk space requirements specified

in this chapter.

Server

HP Systems Insight Manager, HP Insight Control virtual machine management, and the HP Matrix

Operating Environment (Matrix OE) also support operating a CMS in a virtual machine on some

non-HP servers. This configuration requires the CMS to be running a supported operating system

listed in“CMS operating systems” (page 14) and a supported hypervisor listed in “CMS supported

hypervisors” (page 17).

At least 1.6 GHz (2 GHz or faster recommended).Processor

For Matrix OE, four or more processing cores are required with a minimum of 1.6 GHz processors.

The recommended configuration is eight processing cores at 2.4 GHz or later.

For HP Insight Remote Support requirements, 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.

For memory requirements, see Table 4 (page 9).Memory

For disk space requirements, see Table 5 (page 9).Disk space

NTFSFile structure

Local or mapped DVD drive or an ISO mounting utilityDVD drive

The target directory must be on a local hard disk drive.

NOTE: For the requirements for configuring the CMS as a two-node Failover Cluster, see

“Management servers in a high-availability environment” (page 23).

For the requirements for an Integrity-based CMS running an HP-UX OS, see “HP-UX CMS

requirements” (page 93).

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