HP Insight Management 7.3 Installation and Upgrade Release Notes

1 Overview of the Insight Management 7.3 release
Release objective
HP Insight Management 7.3 release provides feature enhancements for both the HP Insight
Management Advisor and the HP Insight Management Installer. HP Insight Management 7.3 also
provides updates for existing operating systems and hypervisors, and also fixes to known software
issues.
Installation requirements and prerequisites
• Minimum hardware, firmware, and software requirements for this release are listed in the HP
Insight Management Support Matrix
• Installation and upgrade prerequisites are documented in the HP Insight Management 7.3
Preinstallation Worksheet
Insight Management installation and user documentation is available at the Insight Management
Information Library:
http://www.hp.com/go/insightmanagement/docs
Distribution media
The physical distribution media for the Insight Management 7.3 release contains complete ISO
images, which enables you to perform a new installation of Insight Management version 7.3 or
an upgrade to Insight Management version 7.3.
Obtaining the distribution media
Obtain the HP Insight Management 7.3 distribution media through one of the following sources:
• An HP or an HP authorized reseller.
• Downloading the ISO images from the HP Software Depot:
http://www.software.hp.com
• Downloading a trial version from the Insight Management website:
http://www.hp.com/go/tryinsightmanagement
NOTE: HP has introduced a second media kit titled HP Insight Control server provisioning USB
media kit. This distribution media contains the Insight Control server provisioning software, available
through the same channels as the Insight Management distribution media.
Distribution media contents
Table 1 and Table 2 list the contents of the Insight Management version 7.3 distribution media. A
check mark in the Updated for 7.3 release column means that the 7.3 media is delivering an
updated version of the software since the last DVD release, version 7.2.
See the HP Insight Management Getting Started Guide for descriptions of the software delivered
on the DVDs and the documents in the Insight Management documentation set.
HP Insight Management DVD #1
DVD #1 contains the Insight Management Installer as well as the HP Systems Insight Manager, HP
Insight Control, and the HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager.
Release objective 5