HP Insight Management 7.3 Installation and Configuration Guide

3 Finishing the HP Insight Management installation..........................................44
Assumptions...........................................................................................................................44
Running the Insight Management Advisor..................................................................................44
Checking for software updates or modifying the scheduled task....................................................44
Starting HP Systems Insight Manager set up tasks from its home page...........................................45
The Discovery process.............................................................................................................47
Step 1: Defining discovery tasks................................................................................................47
Step 2: Running discovery tasks................................................................................................49
Step 3: Validating discovery results...........................................................................................49
Step 4: Setting up managed systems with the Insight managed system setup wizard........................49
Step 5: Rescaling Stored CPU Utilization data in Capacity Advisor (Only if upgrading)....................50
Step 6: Adding authorized users to Systems Insight Manager (optional).........................................51
Step 7: Configuring alerts through email settings on the CMS (optional).........................................51
Step 8: Setting up automatic event handling on the CMS (optional)...............................................52
Step 9: Setting up the HP Storage Provisioning Manager software................................................52
Step 10: Installing HP Insight Remote Support.............................................................................52
4 Optional post-installation configuration........................................................53
Post upgrade procedures.........................................................................................................53
CMS operating system identification must not be changed...........................................................53
Configuring VMware vCenter settings .......................................................................................53
Setting up a virtual connect domain group ................................................................................54
Configuring HP Insight Control virtual machine management to manage virtual machine hosts behind
a firewall...............................................................................................................................54
Configuring HP Insight Control power management options.........................................................55
Configuring HP Matrix infrastructure orchestration features...........................................................57
Performing server migrations....................................................................................................59
Manually adding the proxy WWNs..........................................................................................60
Configuring HP Insight Management for large environments.........................................................61
Virtual Server Environment Configuration Parameters..............................................................61
Decrease TcpTimedWaitDelay.............................................................................................62
HP Matrix infrastructure orchestration parameters...................................................................62
HP Matrix infrastructure orchestration configuration parameters.....................................................63
HP Storage Provisioning Manager (SPM) Adapter for EMC Symmetrix VMAX.................................63
Enabling and Disabling the HP SPM adapter for EMC Symmetrix VMAX...................................63
Configuring HP SPM Adapter for EMC Symmetrix VMAX component.............................................64
Setting EMC SMI-S Credentials............................................................................................64
Setting HTTP Timeout..........................................................................................................65
Setting EMC Director Ports..................................................................................................65
Setting Flags on EMC Director Ports......................................................................................66
Using Suitable EMC Ports for Provisioning.............................................................................66
Pre-Provisioning of Volumes and Thin Pools on EMC Symmetrix VMAX......................................67
Supported RAID Levels...................................................................................................67
Creating Thin Volume....................................................................................................67
5 Uninstalling HP Insight Management...........................................................68
Uninstalling Insight Management..............................................................................................68
Uninstalling specific components of Insight Management.............................................................69
Uninstalling HP Insight Control server deployment SIM Integration plugin.......................................70
6 Troubleshooting........................................................................................71
Installation.............................................................................................................................71
Insight Control virtual machine management..........................................................................72
In an environment using multiple instances of HP SIM CMS, Insight Control virtual machine
management can only be installed on one CMS...............................................................72
System starting improperly or installation fails to proceed...................................................72
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