HP Insight Software 6.1 Support Matrix

Management capabilities of a CMS with a maximum tested configuration
Table 2-5 lists the management capabilities supported by the recommended x64 CMS configuration running
8 processing cores at 2.4 GHz with 24 GB RAM and 50 GB disk space and a separate remote database
server running with 8 processing cores at 2.4 GHz with 16 GB RAM and 50 GB of disk space.
Table 2-5 CMS management capabilities
Maximum configuration on an x64 CMSItem
• Systems Insight Manager: 5,000
• Insight Control: 5,000
• Insight Dynamics: 1,500
Managed systems (physical servers and
virtual machines)
15 concurrent users running general operations and one admin taskConcurrent users on the Systems Insight
Manager console
Up to 70 virtual machine hosts. See the VMware technical documentation website for specific
guidelines on the number of supported guests per host:
Virtual machines
Simultaneous analysis of 2000 managed systemsMonitoring (by Systems Insight Manager
and Insight Control performance
management)
1500 managed systems; 300 monitored PDUs/PDRsPower management
Failover support for 250 logical serversDisaster recovery
1500 managed systems with 60 overlapping provisions of 1 logical server each, and 6
overlapping provisions of 5 logical serves each
Logical servers
• Collect capacity planning data for 1,500 nodes
• Automated recommendations for 500 workloads in <15 minutes
• Detailed reports for 150 systems in <15 minutes
• Summary reports for 1000 systems in <10 minutes
Capacity Advisor Data Collection
Up to 250 single or multi-enclosure domains, up to a total of 1,000 BladeSystem c-Class
enclosures
Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager
domains
CMS software requirements
This section lists software requirements for the CMS.
Supported Microsoft Windows Server OSs
Table 2-6 lists the Microsoft Windows Server OSs that are supported on the CMS.
In addition to United States English, the CMS supports Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and 2008 Server
- French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Japanese (the latest service pack available for each language).
See “Memory requirements” (page 13) for information about enabling the Physical Address Extension (PAE)
feature on Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and 2008 to overcome memory limitations.
Table 2-6 Microsoft Windows Server OS support on a CMS
Insight software
Insight Remote
SupportVCEM
Insight
Dynamics
Insight
Control
Systems
Insight
Manager
Integrated
Installer
Operating system version
1
✓✓✓✓✓✓Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Standard
2
and Enterprise Editions SP2, x86
✓✓✓✓✓✓Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Standard
and Enterprise Editions SP2, x64
3
✓✓✓✓✓✓Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2,
Standard
4
and Enterprise Editions
3
✓✓Microsoft Windows Small Business Server
2008
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