HP System Insight Manager with HP Command View EVA

White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager
8 | March 2013
HP Systems Insight Manager
overview
HP SIM is the foundation for the HP unified server-storage management strategy. HP SIM is a
hardware-level management product that supports multiple operating systems on HP ProLiant,
Integrity, and HP 9000 servers; HP MSA, EVA, and XP arrays; and third-party arrays. Through a
single management view of Microsoft Windows; HP-UX 11i v1, HP-UX 11i v2, and HP-UX 11i v3;
and Red Hat and SUSE Linux, HP SIM provides the basic management features for the following:
System discovery and identification
Single-event view
Inventory data collection
Reporting
HP SIM uses the following:
WBEM to deliver the capabilities required to manage all HP server platforms
SMI-S to discover and manage the storage systems it supports