Technologies in HP ProLiant Gen8 c-Class server blades

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 Integrated with HP Insight Remote Support, HP SIM also provides contracts and warranty management, and
automates remote support.
 For previous-generation servers, the Version Control Agent (VCA) was responsible for determining whether the server
is out of date with its assigned baseline. A baseline is a set of software and firmware that has been tested to work
together on a particular server. That required a VCA on every server. On ProLiant Gen8 servers running HP SIM 7.0,
users can assign the software and firmware versions that should be installed. The software column of the SIM system
list indicates the status of the ProLiant server compared to the assigned baseline.
For ProLiant Gen8 server blades, HP SIM will discover the iLO Management Engine and its host server without software
agents. You do not need to install Insight Management agents or WBEM providers. The iLO Management Engine will
detect core error conditions within the server and report those error conditions as SNMP alerts to HP SIM or other
management consoles.
HP Insight Control for systems managment
HP Insight Control and Matrix Operating Environment build on and complement the HP SIM capabilities with deployment,
migration, power and performance management, and remote monitoring and control. You also get integrated support
for virtualization, infrastructure provisioning and optimization, and continuity of services protection. Plug-in
applications are available for workload management, capacity management, and virtual machine (VM) management.
HP Insight Control suite provides essential management for enterprise data centers that rely on centralized
management of HP ProLiant servers. HP Insight Control, based on HP SIM, provides a unified, secure and extensible
platform to centrally manage servers, storage, and other infrastructure devices across heterogeneous operating system
environments. For example, HP Insight Control can manage server nodes running both Windows and Linux operating
systems. HP Insight Control lowers the operating cost of your HP ProLiant servers with server management that unlocks
the potential of ProLiant servers. Increase server deployment speed, reduce unplanned downtime, optimize data center
capacity, and reduce system admin expenses and travel costs with complete remote control.
With Insight Control you can expect to realize the following management benefits:
 Deploy and migrate ProLiant servers quickly and consistently
 Manage ProLiant server health and performance proactively
 Control your ProLiant servers from anywhere (iLO Advanced included)
 Optimize power
 Integrate and extend your HP Software, Microsoft System Center®, and VMware vCenter™ Server environment
HP Insight Control delivers complete lifecycle management for HP ProLiant and BladeSystem infrastructure. Delivered
on DVD media, Insight Control software uses an integrated installer to deploy and configure HP SIM and essential
infrastructure management software rapidly and consistently, reducing manual installation procedures and speeding
time-to-production. HP Insight Control provides a single, consistent management environment for rapid deployment of
the operating system and hardware configuration. HP Insight Control also allows you to migrate physical and virtual
servers to new servers without regard as to whether the new servers are virtual or physical. You can also convert
between virtualization platforms from various vendors. In addition, Insight Control provides proactive health and
performance monitoring, power management, performance analysis, Lights-Out remote management, and virtual
machine management for HP ProLiant servers and HP BladeSystem infrastructure. Insight Control also provides
seamless single-console integration with Microsoft System Center® and VMware vCenter Server™ for users who have
standardized on those management consoles.
HP Insight Control uses HP SIM as the primary management console and includes an iLO Advanced license. HP Insight
Control runs on a Windows-based central management server (CMS) and can manage server nodes running both
Windows and Linux operating systems.
We offer HP Insight Control for Microsoft System Center for customers that have chosen Microsoft System Center as
their primary console. Based on HP Insight Control, it adds several extensions to make the ProLiant management
information available through the System Center consoles, and also adds monitoring, alerting, proactive virtual machine
management, and ProLiant OS deployment and update capabilities to the System Center consoles.
We offer HP Insight Control for VMware vCenter Server for customers that have chosen VMware vCenter Server as their
primary console. Based on HP Insight Control, it adds several extensions to make the ProLiant management information