HP Insight Management 7.3 Getting Started Guide

Insight Control licensing and reporting
The licensing software is required to apply Insight Control licenses to any supported device. Installing
this licensing software component is not optional.
The reports software adds enhanced Insight Control inventory reports that extend the reports shipped
with Systems Insight Manager.
Insight Control performance management
Insight Control performance management detects, analyzes, and explains hardware configuration
issues and performance bottlenecks on HP ProLiant servers, virtual machines, and MSA shared
storage. It provides the tools you need to receive proactive notification of building bottleneck
conditions and to debug existing performance issues.
Insight Control power management
Insight Control power management software accurately measures maximum and average power
consumption, CPU utilization, and air temperature for select HP ProLiant, Integrity and HP
BladeSystem servers. It allows IT administrators to establish power policies, including the option
to establish power consumption limits via power capping and power regulator settings, across
user defined groups of systems. It supports Intelligent Power Discovery (IPD) for BladeSystem
enclosures through HP Intelligent PDU (iPDU) with c7000 Intelligent Power Module. It also facilitates
to define the data center physical topology with racks containing systems, enclosures, and devices,
and provides ease of managing, monitoring, and positioning the racks in a data center.
Insight Control server provisioning
Insight Control server provisioning is a virtual appliance used to install and configure HP ProLiant
servers. Insight Control server provisioning uses resources such as OS Build Plans and scripts to
run deployment jobs.
IC server provisioning allows you to:
• Install Windows, Linux, and ESXi on ProLiant servers
• Update drivers, utilities, and firmware on ProLiant servers using the HP Service Packs for
ProLiant (SPPs)
• Configure ProLiant system hardware, iLOs, BIOS, and HP Smart Array
• Deploy to target servers without using PXE (HP ProLiant Gen8 and later)
• Run deployment jobs on multiple servers simultaneously
• Customize your ProLiant deployments via an easy to use browser-based interface
Download the HP Insight Control server provisioning installation instructions from http://
www.hp.com/go/insightupdates
Insight Control server migration
Insight Control provides an automated, accurate, and affordable way to migrate existing servers
and their content to the latest HP BladeSystem or HP ProLiant server technologies or the latest
virtualization platforms from VMware and Microsoft.
Insight Control virtual machine management
Insight Control includes central management and control of VMware ESX, Microsoft Hyper-V, Xen
on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and Xen on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) virtual machines
and offers the following capabilities:
• Host-to-virtual machine association
• Easy identification of virtual machines or host servers reaching high CPU, memory, or disk
utilization levels
12 HP Insight Management component descriptions