HP Insight Dynamics – VSE suite for ProLiant Continuously analyze and optimize your adaptive infrastructure.
Table of contents Executive summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 New management challenges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Lower cost. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Accelerate speed of change. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Executive summary HP Insight Dynamics – VSE suite for ProLiant is the world’s first integrated solution that lets you continuously analyze and optimize your physical and virtual resources in exactly the same way. It combines the best of the industry-leading HP infrastructure management portfolio—including HP Systems Insight Manager, HP Insight Control, and HP Virtual Server Environment— into one integrated offering for HP BladeSystem and HP ProLiant servers.
Accelerate speed of change. Unifying management of virtual and physical resources Virtualized environments can easily become silos that require their own tools, skills sets, and processes. This is often the case. Many virtualized data centers have one team to manage virtual machines and another to manage physical servers. Each team has its own processes and many organizations employ more than one type of virtualization technology. That kind of duplication is costly.
Bringing the flexibility of virtualization to physical servers A logical server profile is easily created and freely moved across physical and virtual machines. Logical servers can be physical blade servers, virtual machines, or offline templates.
“Application hosting is a very competitive business. Using HP Insight Dynamics – VSE, we are able to deliver a substantially higher level of service than our competitors.” —Pete Simpson, Vice President Business Technology, Micros Fidelio Europe, Africa, Middle East Key product capabilities The HP Insight Dynamics – VSE suite for ProLiant includes four key capabilities that drive value across your data center.
Enable cost-effective availability. Provision infrastructure consistently. With the combination of the advanced visualization, real-time planning, and the speed and ease of moving resources with logical servers, HP Insight Dynamics – VSE helps you achieve higher levels of availability and better quality of service more economically than with traditional clustering solutions.
Services and delivery Lifecycle services HP offers services to assist with virtualization in each phase of the technology lifecycle. HP services professionals will help with installation and ongoing support of HP Insight Dynamics – VSE, while evolving your virtualization initiative to make it a strategic enabler of the business. Lifecycle services include: • Strategize to understand the potential of HP Insight Dynamics – VSE and assess its impact on your existing virtual and physical environment.
server, you can simulate different workload configurations on different sets of server resources. You can automatically find best-fit solutions for dozens of servers, or even more. And you can easily see which alternatives use the least computing power, the least space, even the least energy. Then HP Insight Dynamics – VSE gives you the information you need to quickly rebalance and repurpose infrastructure based on changing technology and b usiness priorities.
“Freeze” and “thaw” profiles. A blade profile can be stored as ready-to-use, or “freeze-dried.” Then in the event of unplanned downtime, you can use a spare blade (either locally or at a distance using the Insight Recovery option) to get the profile up and running, or “thawed,” in about the time it takes to re-boot a system. These same capabilities help you maintain a vailability during planned maintenance.
This means standard IT services don’t have to be provisioned from scratch. Instead, when you receive a request for resources, you can select an appropriate standardized template from your catalog of infrastructure services. In addition, you can authorize people who frequently need IT resources, such as test and development specialists, to request their own resources from your self-service portal and its standard catalog of infrastructure services.
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