HP System Insight Manager with HP Command View EVA

White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager
4 | March 2013
Executive summary
Many businesses today face similar infrastructure challenges—under-utilized server and storage
capacity, a great deal of time and money spent on managing the infrastructure, and a relentless
demand to meet changing business needs. And with each passing year, the costs associated with
the management of the server and storage infrastructure take a larger chunk out of the data
center budget.
This white paper describes the integration of HP SIM with HP CV EVA. Key benefits of a unified
server and storage management infrastructure follow:
Provides a central point of integration to simplify and consolidate management of the entire
server and storage infrastructure. It also reduces deployment time and costs, and facilitates
collaboration between traditional islands of server and storage management.
Provides centralized event notifications in HP SIM for servers and storage. This is especially
beneficial when there are multiple CV EVA servers in the environment. You can simplify and
improve response times when managing server-storage infrastructure alerts.
Provides more detailed information about EVA events through Insight Remote Support, ideal
for both small and large environments that need to integrate remote support capabilities
with a centralized management platform. It also provides faster notification and subsequent
resolution of server and storage system events in your network.
Provides a high-level summary of storage utilization for EVA.
The reader should be familiar with HP SIM and HP CV EVA, as well as the HP service tools, such as
Insight Remote Support and WEBES.