ISS Technology Update, Volume 7 Number 3 - Newsletter

ISS Technology Update Volume 7, Number 3
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• Discovery of VM hosts and guests. Beginning with 5.2, HP SIM no longer requires the VMM plug-in be installed in order to
discover VM hosts and guests for VMWare ESX. The VMM plug-in is, however, still required in order to manage these in
Insight Manager.
Keeping you informed of the latest ISS technology
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Other new support
In addition to the significant new features described above, HP SIM 5.2 also incorporates support for the following:
• Support for WMI agents. HP SIM now supports the new WMI-based agents for ProLiant servers running Windows, as well as
continuing to support SNMP-based agents for those devices (such as iLO) that do not yet have WMI-based providers.
Improved HP-UX support. Users can now search on software and firmware versions for HP-UX machines as well as for
Windows-based machines being managed by HP SIM. Additionally, property pages for HP-UX systems now include
information on cooling, po
wer, disk drives, HBAs, and Multi-processing.
Additional resources
For more information on Systems Insight Manager 5.2 and HP management software in general, please visit the following links:
Resource URL
Main page for HP Systems Insight
Manager
www.hp.com/go/hpsim
New HP Infrastructure Software
blog
www.hp.com/blogs/managementsoftware
HP Software Customer Connection.
This resource offers a consolidated
view of tips and best practices,
events and additional tools
regarding HP software.
www.hp.com/go/swcustomerconnection
Using Virtual Connect and non-Virtual Connect modules in the same HP
BladeSystem c-Class enclosure
Virtual Connect technology simplifies the setup and administration of server connections to the network. However, there may be
some cases in which customers want to install both Virtual Connect and non-Virtual Connect interconnect modules in the same
enclosure. Non-Virtual Connect interconnect modules can be installed in the BladeSystem c-Class enclosures, but these modules
and corresponding server connections do not inherit the benefits of Virtual Connect. Switches and Pass-Thru modules will
operate according to their default configurations. If server network interface controllers or host bus adapters are connected to
non-Virtual Connect modules, any changes to the server connectivity will require reconfiguration on the local area network
(LAN) and/or storage area network (SAN). Such changes include migrating existing servers and deploying new servers. The
Virtual Connect Manager will only manage server connections that are attached to the Virtual Connect modules.
To combine Virtual Connect (VC) and non-Virtual Connect interconnect modules, customers should follow these general
guidelines:
• In all Virtual Connect configurations, an HP 1/10Gb VC-Ethernet Module or an HP 1/10Gb-F VC-Ethernet Module must be
included in interconnect bay 1 because the Virtual Connect Manager software runs on a processor that resides on these VC-
Ethernet modules.
• To support redundancy of the Virtual Connect environment, HP recommends that VC-Ethernet Modules be used in interconnect
bays 1 and 2.