HP Matrix Operating Environment 7.0 Release Notes

1 Description
HP Matrix Operating Environment is advanced infrastructure management software that allows
you to analyze and optimize both physical and virtual resources in the same way. Matrix OE gives
you a powerful toolkit to accelerate complex technology projects and simplify daily operations. It
enables you to plan capacity and power continuously, provision infrastructure consistently, and
balance across physical and virtual resources. It also allows you to ensure cost-effective high
availability for a larger set of applications.
HP Matrix Operating Environment for ProLiant, HP Matrix Operating Environment for non-HP
servers, and HP Matrix Operating Environment for HP-UX are integrated by design, delivering
capabilities greater than the sum of its parts. Matrix OE is based on proven HP technologies, such
as HP Insight Control and HP Systems Insight Manager, the world’s most popular platform
management tool. Matrix OE takes advantage of HP Virtual Connect to bring the flexibility of
virtualization to a physical environment.
• Matrix Operating Environment for ProLiant and Matrix Operating Environment for non-HP
servers include capacity planning, advanced virtualization and logical server management,
and Matrix OE infrastructure orchestration capabilities for automated design and provisioning.
• Matrix Operating Environment for ProLiant also includes Matrix OE recovery management
for disaster recovery capabilities, Insight Control for advanced power management,
performance management, and server deployment, and extends advanced virtualization
management to HP server blades using HP Virtual Connect technology.
• Matrix Operating Environment for HP-UX includes capacity planning, advanced virtualization
management, global workload management, and support for Integrity blades by HP Integrity
Virtual Machines Manager, HP-UX Workload Manager, and HP Insight Remote Support.
Update recommendation
HP recommends that customers running 6.x and earlier versions upgrade to version 7.0.
Supercedes
The 7.0 version supersedes the 6.3.x released versions.
Operating systems and devices
Supported operating systems and devices are listed in the HP Insight Management Support Matrix:
Matrix OE Information Library
Enhancements
Matrix OE 7.0 software provides new capabilities and expanded platform support.
See the HP Insight Management Support Matrix at Matrix OE Information Library for more
information.
A naming change from Insight Software to Insight Management is being made in this release to
better describe and brand HP’s value-add server management products.
Insight Management product names
Previous nameNew name
HP Insight SoftwareHP Insight Management
HP Insight DynamicsHP Matrix Operating Environment
Update recommendation 5