HP BladeSystem c-Class architecture Technology brief, 4th edition

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Figure 13: Relationship between Insight Control and Matrix Operating Environment
Insight Control provides an integrated management solution for physical and virtual servers. Insight
Control can integrate with Microsoft System Center and VMware vCenter Server environments if your
IT environment has already standardized on those management platforms. For Linux-centric
environments, we offer Insight Control for Linux.
Matrix Operating Environment is optional, advanced infrastructure-management software that builds
on Insight Control and Systems Insight Manager. It lets you instantly adjust to varying business
demands. Insight Dynamics can help consolidate workloads, perform energy-aware capacity
planning, and provision infrastructure
For more information, see
www.hp.com/go/insightcontrol and www.hp.com/go/insightdynamics.
HP Virtual Connect and Virtual Connect Flex-10 technology
The BladeSystem c-Class architecture reduces the complexities of connection management in a blade
environment through Virtual Connect technology. Virtual Connect virtualizes the server connections to
LANs and SANs so you can configure connections only once. When installing a server blade, you
can assign the necessary LAN and SAN connections for that server. There’s no longer a need to wait
until LAN and SAN administrators are available to reconfigure connections for a server.
With Virtual Connect Flex-10 technology, you can allocate a 10 GbE connection into up to four
connections and adjust the bandwidth of each connection. With Virtual Connect FlexFabric modules,
one of the four connections can be allocated to a storage connection (FlexHBA) to support Fibre
Channel over Ethernet or iSCSI traffic.