Using HP Insight Software from a Highly Available Central Management Server with Microsoft Cluster Service

servers, Modular Storage Array storage, and VMware and Microsoft Virtual Server virtual

machines, ensuring server workloads run at peak performance levels.

 HP ProLiant Essentials Vulnerability and Patch Management Pack (VPM)—Vulnerability and patch

tool that integrates comprehensive vulnerability assessment and advanced patch management into

HP SIM to identify and resolve security vulnerabilities quickly and reliably in Microsoft Windows

and Linux environments.

 HP Virtual Machine Management Pack (VMM)—Virtual machine management tool that provides

unified virtual machine management of physical and virtual server resources within HP SIM.

Supports VMware and Microsoft virtual machine environments.

 HP Server Migration Pack - Universal Edition—Management software application that provides an

automated, accurate, and affordable way to migrate existing servers and their content to the latest

HP BladeSystem or ProLiant server technologies, or the latest virtualization platforms from VMware,

Microsoft, and Citrix. SMP Universal supports physical-to-ProLiant (P2P), virtual-to-ProLiant (V2P),

physical-to-virtual (P2V), and virtual to virtual (V2V) migrations.

 HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager (VCEM)—Software application that simplifies the

management of BladeSystem environments that use HP Virtual Connect to control LAN and SAN

connectivity. This application provides a central console to manage and control infrastructure

resources, a single resource pool for LAN and SAN address administration, and grouping

capabilities that enable rapid, reliable deployment and movement of servers across the data center.

 HP Virtual Server Environment Management Software—provides the flexibility of virtualization for

physical servers and real-time capacity planning for server capacity and power. For ProLiant servers

it is delivered through HP Insight Dynamics – VSE Suite and includes HP Capacity Advisor and HP

Virtualization Manager for logical server management. For Integrity customers, it is delivered

through the VSE Suite and it also includes HP Global Workload Manager to automate resource

allocation.

Note:

Some of the Insight software components listed above are not supported in

a highly available cluster environment and thus are not described in this

white paper. These are: HP Service Essentials Remote Support Pack and

HP ProLiant Essentials Vulnerability and Patch Management Pack.

Insight software components may be run in a Microsoft Windows Server environment, using Microsoft

SQL Server on HP ProLiant servers. By installing Insight software components as clustered

applications, these management products can also be highly available. In an MSCS environment, a

virtual server name and associated IP address for the HP Systems Insight Manager service (from which

Virtualization Manager may be launched) may be created as cluster resources, allowing failover for

higher availability in case of system failure or planned shutdown. Cluster resources are also created

for other Insight software components, including those that are bundled with Insight Dynamics - VSE,

also allowing failover of these services.

Additionally, by distributing the load for Microsoft SQL Server and Insight software components on

separate systems, more efficient use can be made of cluster system resources.

This white paper describes the steps to install a highly available clustered version of Insight software

on HP ProLiant servers running Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition and Microsoft SQL

Server 2005 Enterprise Edition. Alternatively, a highly available clustered version of Insight software

may also be installed on servers running Microsoft SQL Server 2000. Refer to the HP Insight Control

Management Quick Setup Poster for details on the hardware and software installation requirements

for Insight software.