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system to both local and SAN-based boot drives. Applications are installed consistently through Server Automation software policies. Planning and analysis During the Planning and Analysis phase, the system administrator must understand the hardware, software, and performance characteristics of the current systems. The inventory reports in HP SIM show detailed information about the hardware in use; PMP indicates the historical performance of CPU, memory; and input and output and HP Server Automation shows what software is installed on the systems. Based on this data, the system administrator can develop a consolidation plan. HP Systems Insight Manager HP SIM capabilities include: Health Monitoring, Event Notification, Distributed Task Execution, and Inventory. In this example, the company uses HP SIM to gather hardware inventory information. Standard and custom inventory reports show data such as server model, operating system, processor type and speed, amount and type of memory, network interfaces, logical drive space usage, and physical drive information (Figure 10). These reports help the system administrator understand the current characteristics of the systems. Figure 10: HP SIM Sample Inventory Report 19