HP Insight Cluster Management Utility v7.1 Release Notes

1 About this product
HP Insight Cluster Management Utility (CMU) is HP's hyperscale cluster lifecycle management
software, providing GUI-based control and display of a cluster as a single entity. HP Insight CMU
enables cluster-frictionless management and cloning, and offers zoom-out displays of cluster health
and performance metrics. A Linux CLI is available for script-based automation and integration with
other Linux tools.
1.1 Operating system support
HP Insight CMU v7.1 supports the RHEL5/RHEL6 and SLES10/SLES11 operating systems supported
by the Cluster Platform family.
Ubuntu is supported on the compute nodes only, on HP Ubuntu certified servers. Contact HP for
support.
Debian is supported on the compute nodes only, but requires active approval and verification from
HP. Contact HP for support.
CentOS and Scientific Linux are supported on the compute nodes and the management nodes,
but require active approval and verification from HP. Contact HP for support.
1.2 Compute node hardware support
HP Insight CMU v7.1 supports the Cluster Platform family which includes most G6, G7, and Gen8
ProLiant systems.
For example, the following Gen8 systems are supported: SL230s, SL250s, SL270s, BL460c,
BL465c, DL160, DL385, DL380, BL685, DL360, DL560, WS460, BL420, DL160, ML350.
IMPORTANT: HP Insight CMU does not qualify management nodes. Any server with a supported
operating system can become an HP Insight CMU management node.
NOTE: The HP CMU team regularly delivers patches to support new systems as they become
available. For hardware enablement patch announcements and validation tests, click the HP IT
Resource Center CMU Forum link on http://www.hp.com/go/cmu or contact HP for more
information. Patches are available for download from the HP Support Center at www.itrc.hp.com.
4 About this product