HP Insight Management 7.0 Getting Started Guide (7.0 and 7.1)

Insight Control power management
Insight Control power management software helps IT administrators optimize use of data center
power and cooling resources. It accurately measures maximum and average power consumption
and air temperature for select HP ProLiant and HP BladeSystem servers and allows IT administrators
to establish power policies, including the option to establish power consumption limits, across user
defined groups of systems.
Insight Control server deployment
Insight Control server deployment is a ready-to-run out-of-the-box deployment solution for HP ProLiant
and HP Integrity servers. Insight Control automates the process of server configuration and software
deployment, enabling you to quickly and easily adapt to changing business demands by bringing
servers to production quicker. Insight Control includes many powerful features, including
configuration jobs for industry-standard leading operating systems and HP server support packs
that include software drivers and management agents. Insight Control deploys Windows, Linux
and VMware ESX operating systems to your managed systems.
Insight Control server migration
Insight Control provides an automated, accurate, and affordable way to migrate existing servers
and their content to the latest HP BladeSystem or HP ProLiant server technologies or the latest
virtualization platforms from VMware and Microsoft.
Insight Control virtual machine management
Insight Control includes central management and control of VMware ESX, Microsoft Hyper-V, Xen
on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and Xen on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) virtual machines
and offers the following capabilities:
• Host-to-virtual machine association
• Easy identification of virtual machines or host servers reaching high CPU, memory, or disk
utilization levels
• Highly flexible move capabilities for moving VMs, including live moves (requires vMotion for
VMware)
• Backup, template, and alternate host capabilities that enable restoration of virtual machines
on any available host
• Ability to predict failures on VMware ESX and Microsoft Hyper-V host servers and relocate
VM guests before the failure occurs
HP Insight mxsync utility
If the CMS environment is lost or corrupted, it might be necessary to restore the environment from
a backup copy. The purpose of the mxsync utility is to simplify resynchronization of the environment
after the data has been restored. The utility analyzes the post-restore environment and performs
the recommended corrective actions.
The mxsync utility includes only Systems Insight Manager, Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager,
and Matrix Operating Environment plug-ins.
Insight managed system setup wizard
The Insight managed system setup wizard is a Systems Insight Manager plug-in tool that simplifies
configuring Insight Management components for use on managed systems. Configuration tasks
include assignment of licenses, agent deployment, and other configuration checks and actions.
The wizard is especially useful to configure managed systems for use with Matrix Operating
Environment components, but it can also be used to set up managed systems for Insight Control
and Systems Insight Manager.
12 Insight Management component descriptions