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

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HP Matrix Operating Environment
The components of the HP Matrix Operating Environment analyze and optimize your adaptive
infrastructure to accelerate complex IT projects and simplify daily operations. Matrix Operating
Environment software supports select HP ProLiant servers, HP Integrity servers, and non-HP servers
(x86).
For more information about Matrix Operating Environment software, see the following website:
http://www.hp.com/go/matrixoe
Matrix Operating Environment features are integrated into the Systems Insight Manager GUI.
HP Matrix OE visualization and Configuration Management
These components of Matrix Operating Environment visualize the physical and virtual infrastructure
for HP ProLiant, BladeSystem, and HP Integrity servers and allow you, through logical server
management, to manage physical and virtual servers in the same way. A logical server is a set of
configuration information that you create, activate, and move across physical and virtual machines.
It contains the logical server definition and description, including the server compute resources
and the server connections to storage fabric and networks.
Matrix OE also includes support for HP Storage Provisioning Manager, which improves the storage
provisioning process between the SAN administrator and the server administrator.
Capacity Advisor
Use Capacity Advisor to understand resource use and to plan for changes in server capacity and
power demand. With the usage data collected by Capacity Advisor, and using its automated
Smart Solver technology, you can quickly evaluate potential solutions for server consolidation and
rebalancing of existing workloads on virtual and physical servers.
HP Matrix Operating Environment infrastructure orchestration
Matrix infrastructure orchestration enables rapid and consistent infrastructure provisioning. It uses
a drag-and-drop visual design tool to easily design simple or complex infrastructure templates that
are composed of physical and virtual servers, storage, and network resources. It automatically
provisions from a library of templates through a web-based self-service portal. It includes support
for multi-tenancy, which allows data center resources to be dynamically and securely shared among
different organizations by providing each organization with a virtual infrastructure orchestration
system. It integrates with existing tools and processes including HP Server Administrator Automation.
Infrastructure orchestration uses an included workflow automation engine powered by HP Operations
Orchestration.
HP Operations Orchestration (OO) is a system for creating automated procedures called Ops
flows and making them available to IT personnel. Ops flows are made up of operations that each
perform a specific action to maintain, diagnose, and repair a server.
HP Matrix Operating Environment recovery management
Matrix recovery management provides for automated disaster recovery of both physical and virtual
logical server environments and now supports physical to virtual failover (and back). With a simple
mouse click, it transfers application environments, running on HP BladeSystem or in virtual machines,
to a remote recovery site. It utilizes the data replication capabilities of HP storage environments to
ensure that application data is transitioned to the recovery location with the overall transition
measured in minutes, not days. Matrix recovery management is supported only on HP ProLiant
servers.
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