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

HP Virtual Machine Man
gement Pack
Virtual Machine Management Pack
(VMM) optimizes server utilization by providing centralized
performance monitoring
and control of VMware and Microsoft virtual machines
.
VMM
shows
physical
host
to virtual machine association and makes it easy to
identify
virtual machines (VM)
or host servers
reaching high
central processing unit (
CPU
)
, m
emory
,
or disk utilization levels.
VMM
has
highly
flexib
le move capabilities allowing
live moves
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and mov
es to
different
host resources.
The
backup,
template
,
and
alternate host capabilities enable restoration of VMs on any available host.
VMM is the
only
out of the box
solution available that can initiate VMware
Distributed Resource Scheduler (
DRS
)
to relocate VMs based on hardware predictive failure alerts.
Inte
grate
Because it is built on HP
SIM
, Insight Control provides management of an entire HP storage and
server infrastructure
through
a single console.
Several
integration solutions connect the information
provided by Insight Control with other management to
ols used for enterprise management.
Enterprise Management Integration Solutions
Insight Control exchanges inventory information and events directly between HP SIM and a number of
HP enterprise management products, such as HP Network Node Manager, HP Operat
ions Center
,
and HP ServiceDesk.
Additionally, integrations are available to allow access from CA Unicenter,
Microsoft System Center
,
and Tivoli Enterprise Console to information and events from the ProLiant
Agents and
SMH,
which are installed on each HP m
anaged server.
HP Server Automation
Server Automation software provides the depth and
breadth of capa
bilities
you need
to manage
day
-
to
-
da
y IT operations across servers
and
applications. It is enterprise software that provide
s
automation
capabilities for
operating system and
application provisioning, patching, configuration
management,
audit and compliance, reporting
,
and
a host of other IT operations. HP Server Automation
has helped
customers address their
security and compliance management
, data center c
onsolidation, and
virtualization
initiatives
while simultaneously improving their operational
efficiencies and
responsiveness to change.
Server Automation supports a distributed architecture that enables global scalability.
It can manage
tens of thousands
of servers in different subnets in data
centers around the world.
Server Automation manages servers running Windows, Linux, VMware, and various UNIX operating
systems, including HP
-
UX 11i, across hardware from a multitude of vendors.
Its main features when
managing a BladeSystem environment are automatic baselining of the hardware and software
configurations, policy
-
based provisioning, and application
-
level auditing and remediation.
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Requires VMWare VMotion