HP Server Automation complements HP Insight Control to manage HP BladeSystem servers (487616-001, February 2008)

address conflicts
. G
roup
-
based configuration
can s
treamline enclosure administ
ration across
your
organization.
HP Insight Control
HP Insight Control is a set of capabilities
that
simplif
ies
the management of BladeSystem server
blades
, covering the entire server lifecycle from deployment to integration.
Figure
1
:
HP Insight Control
Deploy
HP BladeSystem is designed for easy setup.
Virtual Connect technology
enables
network and storage
connections to be configured once for an enclosure, and then easily assigned to each server by the
server administrator, w
ithout additional work by the network and storage administrators.
After
ProLiant hardware is set
up,
you can use
two products within Insight Control that to install the
operating system and applications: HP Server Migration Pack
–
Universal Edition and HP
Rapid
Deployment Pack
(RDP)
.
HP Server Migration Pack
–
Universal Edition
Server Migration Pack
-
Universal Edition delivers the best physical and virtual migration options for
HP ProLiant servers.
It can quickly and easily migrate an existing server and a
ll of its applications to a
new physical or virtual server.
Migrations can run concurrently for faster processing of multiple
migrations.
HP
Rapid Deployment Pack
R
apid
D
eployment
P
ack
is a server deployment solution that facilitates the installation, conf
iguration,
and deployment of high volumes of HP servers using either scripting or imaging technology. It can
deploy Windows or Linux images to ProLiant or Integrity servers. Server configuration time is reduced
dramatically, making it possible to scale ser
ver deployments to high volumes in rapid fashion.
R
apid
D
eployment
P
ack
includes the ProLiant Integration Module and Integrity Integration Module.
These
modules consist of software optimizations for HP servers, including HP scripting toolkits, configuratio
n