HP Insight Management 7.3 Update 1 Support Matrix

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

servers:

• A required CMS

• 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.

NOTE: For ProLiant customers wanting to manage a KVM cloud, Matrix 7.3.1 can create KVM

virtual machines in a next-generation HP CloudSystem resource pool (through either HP CloudSystem

Foundation or next-generation HP CloudSystem Enterprise). Matrix 7.3.1 also supports creating

KVM virtual machines through use of HP Matrix KVM Private Cloud resource pools. Specifics of

the management servers required for those environments are documented separately.

• For HP CloudSystem Foundation or next-generation HP CloudSystem Enterprise, see the

documentation at http://www.hp.com/go/CloudSystem/docs

• For HP Matrix KVM Private Cloud,see the HP Insight Management 7.3 Support Matrix at

http://www.hp.com/go/matrixoe/docs

Hardware and firmware

CMS hardware

Table 2 (page 8) lists the hardware requirements for a single-server CMS.

Table 2 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 . This configuration requires the

CMS to be running a supported operating system listed in“CMS operating systems” (page 15) 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 information about using HP Insight Remote Support with HP SIM, system requirements and product support,

see the Insight Remote Support documentation at: http://www.hp.com/go/insightremotesupport/docs

For memory requirements, see Table 3 (page 10).Memory

For disk space requirements, see Table 4 (page 10).Disk space

NTFSFile structure

Local or mapped DVD drive or an ISO mounting utilityDVD drive

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