Managing HP Integrity Servers with HP Server Automation and HP Virtual Server Environment

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Managing HP Integrity Servers with HP Server Automation

and HP Virtual Server Environment

Managing HP Integrity Servers with HP Server Automation and HP Virtual Server Environment...................... 1

Introduction......................................................................................................................................... 2

What are SA and VSE?........................................................................................................................ 2

HP Server Automation....................................................................................................................... 2

Automatic Discovery and Inventory................................................................................................. 3

Provisioning................................................................................................................................. 3

Auditing and Remediation ............................................................................................................. 3

VSE and Server Resource Optimization............................................................................................... 3

Intelligent Control ......................................................................................................................... 4

Partitioning .................................................................................................................................. 4

Availability .................................................................................................................................. 4

Utility Pricing ............................................................................................................................... 5

HP VSE Suite................................................................................................................................5

HP Systems Insight Manager.......................................................................................................... 5

Using SA and VSE Together to Manage HP-UX 11i Servers ...................................................................... 5

Managing with SA and VSE – Examples ................................................................................................ 6

Example 1: Day-to-Day Operations .................................................................................................... 6

Event and Health Monitoring ......................................................................................................... 7

VSE Virtualization Manager View .................................................................................................. 7

Automated Workload Management................................................................................................ 8

Compliance Dashboard ................................................................................................................ 9

Example 2: Platform Setup .............................................................................................................. 10

Capacity Planning ...................................................................................................................... 10

Configuring HP Virtual Partitions and HP Integrity Virtual Machines .................................................. 11

Application Installation................................................................................................................ 12

Conclusion........................................................................................................................................ 13

For More Information ......................................................................................................................... 13

Summary of content (13 pages)

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Managing HP Integrity Servers with HP Server Automation and HP Virtual Server Environment Managing HP Integrity Servers with HP Server Automation and HP Virtual Server Environment...................... 1 Introduction......................................................................................................................................... 2 What are SA and VSE? ........................................................................................................................
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Introduction HP offers the most complete solution for managing IT infrastructures at all levels, whether managing end-to-end business services across clients, networks, servers, and storage, or continuously optimizing the utilization of HP hardware resources. This paper highlights two HP offerings that work in partnership to manage and optimize your infrastructure: HP Server Automation (SA) and HP Virtual Server Environment (VSE).
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management operations. SA 6.5 can manage servers running Windows®, Linux, VMware, and various UNIX® operating systems, including HP-UX 11i. HP VSE for Integrity servers supports HP-UX 11i, Windows, and Linux. This paper focuses on the management of servers running HP-UX 11i. The main features of SA 6.5 managing an HP-UX 11i environment are automatic discovery and inventory, provisioning, and auditing and remediation.
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Intelligent Control The intelligent-control capabilities of VSE allow IT to maximize the effectiveness of the servers in the virtualized infrastructure.
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additional resources needed for failover of workloads to be managed and optimized at the same time as the resources needed for steady state operation. Availability is provided in VSE through HP Serviceguard clustering and HP Disaster Tolerance solutions. Utility Pricing HP Utility Pricing solutions for HP Integrity and HP 9000 servers allow customers flexibility in how they pay for and share computing resources.
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Table 1: Key Features of SA and VSE for HP-UX 11i Management SA Platform Setup Platform Maintenance Inventory, Auditing and Compliance Computing Resource Optimization VSE Configuring Virtual Partitions HA Clustering Configuration OS Installation 2 Application Installation Event and Health Monitoring Patch and Update Remote Script Launch Inventory (HW and SW) 3 Auditing Compliance Capacity Planning Utility Pricing Automated Workload Management Managing with SA and VSE – Examples The following examples i
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Event and Health Monitoring The system administrator is using HP SIM, the foundation of VSE, for monitoring health status and events. HP SIM polls each managed server periodically to retrieve a consolidated health status value that reflects the status of the server’s hardware components. This health status value can be displayed in several places in the HP SIM user interface, and is used to access more detailed information about the health of the system.
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Network IO and Disk IO), all of which are updated in real time. Clicking the CPU bar shows a graph of historical CPU data. Figure 2: VSE Virtualization Manager View Automated Workload Management After determining that the server is experiencing performance problems by reviewing the information in HP SIM and the VSE Virtualization Manager view, the administrator decides to confirm that the nPartition is receiving the CPU shares allocated to it.
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Figure 3: Global Workload Manager (gWLM) The gWLM view shows that this system has been receiving the appropriate number of CPU shares, according to the policy set for it, but the workload is higher than originally expected, resulting in increased CPU queue lengths. The administrator looks at the SA Compliance Dashboard to make sure the system is still configured as it should be, and the excessive CPU usage is not due to changes in application or system configuration settings.
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After allowing the server to stabilize, the administrator returns to the VSE tools and confirms that the system is once again operating within normal parameters. Figure 4: SA Compliance Dashboard Example 2: Platform Setup In this example, the system administrator must set up new systems to support an application that is moving into production.
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Tools to view and report statistics on profiles The ability to forecast profile characteristics into the future based on past data and usersupplied growth characteristic parameters A scenario model with editor for “what if” case studies including moving workloads to new virtual or physical servers and combining workloads onto fewer physical servers Figure 5 illustrates the Capacity Advisor Profile Viewer.
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Note that all of these management tools are fully integrated into HP Virtualization Manager and HP SIM to provide seamless and in-context management of HP VSE. Once virtual partitions or virtual machines are configured and (optionally) clustered, the operating systems can be installed directly from media or using the respective network installation tools.
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Conclusion HP leads the industry in providing solutions for managing IT infrastructure at all levels, from applications and services to infrastructure components such as clients, networks, servers, and storage. HP SA and HP VSE are complementary tools for managing your HP Integrity and HP 9000 server infrastructure. SA enables you to easily manage the configuration of large numbers of servers via its policy based configuration and auditing capabilities.