End-to-end management

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1 Brochure End-to-end management HP ProLiant servers with Insight Control

2 Make the most of your investments in servers, staff, and facilities The server management challenge Let s face it. Managing servers can be a huge time crunch. We hear customers say things like: Deployment is taking too much time. Monitoring is insufficient and unreliable. Unplanned downtime costs too much time and money. There s no travel budget to fix remote-site servers. Our servers are very underutilized. I need a solid infrastructure foundation for my cloud efforts. The solution: Use Insight Control to manage your HP ProLiant servers Address the management challenges of cost, time, and energy by deploying your infrastructure on ProLiant servers, which are designed from the ground up to be the best-managed servers in the industry. ProLiant servers with Insight Control enable you to simplify day-to-day operations and make the most of your investment on server assets, staff, and facilities. Imagine what you could be doing with the savings in operational costs. 2

3 What is HP Insight Control? HP Insight Control is essential server management that enables you to fully utilize the management capabilities built into your HP ProLiant servers. HP Insight Control gives you more from every dollar, hour, and watt invested in your ProLiant servers. With Insight Control and related services, you can deploy new ProLiant servers quickly and reliably, catalog your environment accurately, proactively monitor server health to pinpoint failures before they result in unplanned downtime, manage ProLiant servers remotely from any location, and optimize power usage confidently. As a result, you can reduce unplanned downtime and deliver stable IT services to your line-of-business users. You can also respond to pressing business needs faster by facilitating the rapid rollout of new IT services and optimizing the utilization of compute resources and data center facilities. Insight Control provides single-console integration with the leading virtualization technologies applications. Insight Control for VMware vcenter Server delivers powerful HP hardware management capabilities to virtualization administrators without ever having to leave the vcenter console. HP Insight Control for Microsoft System Center provides seamless integration of the unique ProLiant and BladeSystem manageability features into the Microsoft System Center consoles. Insight Control for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) provides HP infrastructure management capability from within the RHEV management console. With these extensions, Insight Control allows you to help maximize your investment in existing systems management tools. Consider just a few examples of savings in cost, risk, and people time when you deploy ProLiant servers with Insight Control. The payback period when you invest in Insight Control is just 4.2 months with a 642 percent ROI. 1 Reduce expenses by up to $73,482 USD per 100 users 2 Increase deployment speed by 12-fold: 20 minutes vs. four hours 3 and migration speed by 4-fold 4 Decrease downtime by up to 83 percent 5 Eliminate server maintenance-related travel expenses 6 Server software updates are 4-fold faster 7 Manage 33 percent more servers without adding staff 8 Increase the capacity of your data center by up to three times with Dynamic Power Capping 9 1, 2, 5 IDC: Gaining Business Value and ROI with HP Insight Control Management Software, March TTX Company success story, July , 7 HP migration engineering team 2007 benchmark. 6 Remote management with HP Integrated Lights- Out Advanced (ilo). 8 Atlantic Health success story, February HP Performance Engineering Team, 2008 benchmark: Percentage increase in server density compares the number of servers deployed using Dynamic Power Capping with the number of servers deployed using server faceplate values. Density improvements may vary based on how customers budget power and cooling resources. 3

4 HP Insight Control helps you respond to critical server management challenges Provision and migrate servers quickly Speed in deployment is critical. When your business needs new compute power, the infrastructure must respond quickly. With Insight Control, ProLiant servers can be rapidly deployed in a consistent manner. Turn resource-intensive manual server provisioning into unattended, repeatable, and highly automated tasks Use a fast, simple-to-use solution to complete almost everything from hardware configuration through OS and application deployment Automate the migration of workloads from existing physical and virtual servers to the latest HP ProLiant servers or to the virtual machines on VMware ESX and Microsoft Hyper-V Produce reliable and consistent configurations across multiple servers and even multiple sites while lowering overall IT resource requirements during large-scale deployments 4

5 Simplify data center management. Watch this demo and learn first-hand how HP Insight Control for Microsoft System Center can make it happen. Control servers from anywhere Take total control of your ProLiant server at any time, regardless of location, which results in reduced travel budgets and improved system recovery time. HP ProLiant servers feature the next generation of Integrated HP Lights-Out (ilo). With ilo Advanced, included with Insight Control, you can: Work even faster and experience turbo-charged performance, a streamlined user interface, and enhanced standards support, including Remote Console and Virtual Media Share a remote console with up to six system administrators to view and share control of a session for collaborative troubleshooting Automatically capture video footage of failure sequences, as well as complex configuration operations Use virtual folders to simplify file copy operations between local desktops or notebooks and remotely managed HP ProLiant servers or BladeSystem enclosures 5

6 Insight Control for Microsoft System Center HP Insight Control for Microsoft System Center extends the best-managed ProLiant experience for customers who have standardized on a Microsoft System Center management platform. Prevent problems from occurring by proactively monitoring and managing the health of ProLiant servers (running Microsoft Windows, Linux, VMware, and ProLiant Gen8 agentless) and BladeSystem enclosures, and intelligently responding to hardware events Deploy bare metal servers quickly and reliably, including pre-deployment hardware and BIOS configuration, and post-os driver and agent installation updates Provide detailed component level inventory of managed Windows servers Maintain consistency and increase uptime with simplified ProLiant driver and firmware updates Manage server health proactively There is less to worry about with HP ProLiant servers. Monitor your ProLiant servers with one simple, integrated interface and receive proactive notification of impending or actual failures. Monitor system health and performance through HP Systems Insight Manager (SIM) and forward alerts to other enterprise management systems Reduce complexity and help meet availability expectations with comprehensive, consistent HP Foundation Care 24x7 hardware and software services, including online connectivity to HP plus warranty and service contract reporting Update software and firmware easily using SIM integrated with Software Update Manager, with the ability to set software and firmware baselines Receive automated notifications of issues or potential issues, accurate problem diagnosis, remote troubleshooting, and technicians dispatched for on-site service with Insight Remote Support Pinpoint and resolve performance bottlenecks quickly to get the most from your existing server infrastructure 6

7 Optimize server power confidently Deploy your data center on ProLiant and make the most of power by accurately measuring consumption, reducing usage, reclaiming unused power and cooling resources, and up to triple the capacity of your data center. Measure and regulate power usage, allowing you to know how many servers can be deployed per rack and reducing the cost of operating servers Cap power usage safely to fit more servers within your existing power envelope Reduce power consumption during critical times and quickly respond to catastrophic failure events by lowering the power state of non-critical servers or gracefully taking them offline, ensuring your mission-critical services stay up and running Discover and map servers automatically to specific power outlets using Intelligent Power Discovery, allowing you to accurately correlate equipment and power data, verify redundancy, and eliminate human errors all with simplified routine tasks and processes to save time and money. Automate configuration using HP Location Discovery Services, the first solution that merges the physical rack with IT equipment to provide automated location awareness of installed servers. Insight Control for VMware vcenter Server The HP Insight Control for VMware vcenter Server extension enables converged infrastructure to be the best-managed infrastructure for VMware administrators. From a single pane of glass, provision, monitor, and manage the HP servers, storage, and networking infrastructure that support your virtualized environment Receive pre-failure and failure alerts and invoke HP management tools, such as Systems Insight Manager, ilo, Virtual Connect Manager and Onboard Administrator, in-context, to control and troubleshoot HP servers Visually trace and monitor your Virtual Connect network end-to-end, from the host, all the way to the individual network modules connected within your domain Monitor and provision storage components of the HP Storage Array portfolio, as well as volume and LUN connections to your virtual machines or ESX server hosts 7

8 Developing solutions for major social and environmental challenges hp.com/hpinfo/globalcitizenship Insight Control for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization HP Insight Control for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization extends the best-managed ProLiant experience for customers who have standardized on the RHEV management console. Monitor and manage the HP ProLiant and BladeSystem infrastructure that supports your virtualized environment all from a single screen Visually trace and monitor your end-to-end Virtual Connect network from the RHEV-defined logical network, all the way to the physical switches Access trusted HP tools with single sign-on to ilo, Virtual Connect, and OnBoard Administrator Display alerts, events, and notifications in real time from a dedicated newsfeed Take control of your server infrastructure HP Insight Control will help you proactively manage your server infrastructure by unleashing the powerful management capabilities built into every HP ProLiant server. Visit hp.com/ go/insightcontrol to learn how you can use this essential management for your server infrastructure. Learn more at hp.com/go/insightcontrol Sign up for updates hp.com/go/getupdated Share with colleagues Rate this document Copyright 2007, Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice. The only warranties for HP products and services are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services. Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty. HP shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein. Microsoft and Windows are U.S. registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. 4AA1-4346ENW, November 2013, Rev. 11