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- HP BL680c | HP Server Automation complements HP Insight Control to manage HP Bla - Page 1
...6 Service Essentials Remote Support Pack 6 Vulnerability and Patch Management Pack 7 Optimize...7 HP Insight Power Manager ...7 HP Virtual Machine Mangement Pack 7 Integrate ...7 Enterprise Management Integration Solutions 7 HP Server Automation ...8 Baseline ...8 Change and configuration - HP BL680c | HP Server Automation complements HP Insight Control to manage HP Bla - Page 2
Software compliance ...14 Example 2: Solving a cooling problem 15 BladeSystem visualization...15 Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager 16 Server Automation Compliance Check 17 Example 3: Server consolidation...18 Planning and analysis ...19 HP Systems Insight Manager...19 Performance Management Pack - HP BL680c | HP Server Automation complements HP Insight Control to manage HP Bla - Page 3
start to finish. Thousands of applications on Windows®, Linux, HP-UX, and more are available to be hosted within the enclosure. BladeSystem infrastructure can support a combination of virtual machines, HP storage and server blades-ProLiant, Integrity, and StorageWorks-and can connect to a variety - HP BL680c | HP Server Automation complements HP Insight Control to manage HP Bla - Page 4
address conflicts. Group-based configuration can streamline enclosure administration across your organization. HP Insight Control HP Insight Control offers a set of capabilities that simplify the management of HP BladeSystem server blades, covering the entire server lifecycle from deployment to - HP BL680c | HP Server Automation complements HP Insight Control to manage HP Bla - Page 5
the ProLiant Integration Module and Integrity Integration Module. These modules consist of software optimizations for HP servers, including HP scripting toolkits, configuration jobs for leading industry standard operating systems, and HP server support packs containing software drivers, management - HP BL680c | HP Server Automation complements HP Insight Control to manage HP Bla - Page 6
Protect A key IT function is to minimize risk to servers. HP Service Essentials Remote Support Pack (RSP) analyzes hardware faults and initiates support calls as necessary to avoid unplanned downtime. Service Essentials Remote Support Pack If a predictive failure indication is found, customers with - HP BL680c | HP Server Automation complements HP Insight Control to manage HP Bla - Page 7
Service Essentials Remote Support Pack ships at no additional charge with ProLiant and Proliant server blades advice for problem resolution. VPM smaller IT environments where HP Server Automation has not been implemented or host servers reaching high central processing unit (CPU), memory, or disk - HP BL680c | HP Server Automation complements HP Insight Control to manage HP Bla - Page 8
Server Automation supports a distributed architecture that enables global scalability. It can manage tens of thousands of servers in different subnets in data centers around the world. Server Automation manages servers running Windows, Linux, VMware, and various UNIX operating systems, including HP - HP BL680c | HP Server Automation complements HP Insight Control to manage HP Bla - Page 9
policies are generated daily from the National Vulnerability Database (NVD). Because these policies are configured as HP Server Automation policies, view policies. For virtual server environments, Server Automation supports provisioning and control of VMware ESX server and Sun Solaris 10 containers - HP BL680c | HP Server Automation complements HP Insight Control to manage HP Bla - Page 10
are extensive, when you use Insight Control in conjunction with Server Automation, you can reduce the time and effort spent managing HP BladeSystem servers and associated workloads. Server Automation application and configuration features give you more control over the consistency of software - HP BL680c | HP Server Automation complements HP Insight Control to manage HP Bla - Page 11
, just illustrative. The first of three examples shows how Insight Control and Server Automation are used together to identify and solve a CPU performance problem. The second example illustrates how features specific to server blades make it easy for you to respond to a cooling issue. In the - HP BL680c | HP Server Automation complements HP Insight Control to manage HP Bla - Page 12
ES (Event Status) column represents the most critical, uncleared event that the HP SIM central management server has received for that system. The SW column reflects recommended updates to ProLiant drivers, firmware, and management agents. Other status columns reflect additional information in areas - HP BL680c | HP Server Automation complements HP Insight Control to manage HP Bla - Page 13
. In this case, the system administrator notes that the CPU utilization problem is not just a spike, but an ongoing issue (Figure 5). To continue gathering information to troubleshoot this problem, the administrator looks at Server Automation to verify if the system configuration has not changed. 13 - HP BL680c | HP Server Automation complements HP Insight Control to manage HP Bla - Page 14
Server Automation has a powerful automation engine that supports the creation of policies to define the software installation and configuration , which might include patch and application configuration policies, in addition to software package specification. In addition to the policy compliance - HP BL680c | HP Server Automation complements HP Insight Control to manage HP Bla - Page 15
to expected levels. Example 2: Solving a cooling problem In this example, a system administrator receives a page generated by HP SIM that is used for routine monitoring in the data center and discovers that several server blades in a particular enclosure have exceeded a predefined temperature - HP BL680c | HP Server Automation complements HP Insight Control to manage HP Bla - Page 16
to use an available server blade in another enclosure to add a server to the database cluster to ensure adequate performance and redundancy while the administrator investigates the problem. This RAC cluster is part of a horizontally scalable application and was configured with additional database - HP BL680c | HP Server Automation complements HP Insight Control to manage HP Bla - Page 17
another enclosure and uses VCEM to assign one of the inactive server blade profiles for the Oracle RAC cluster and then boots the server blade. Server Automation Compliance Check The server blade profile is configured to boot the server from a pre-existing SAN-based boot partition that contains an - HP BL680c | HP Server Automation complements HP Insight Control to manage HP Bla - Page 18
an effort to reduce IT expenses, a company has decided to move the majority of its existing rackbased servers to HP BladeSystem server blades. Some server blades are running commercial applications like Microsoft Exchange and Citrix, while others run applications that were developed inhouse. First - HP BL680c | HP Server Automation complements HP Insight Control to manage HP Bla - Page 19
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 - HP BL680c | HP Server Automation complements HP Insight Control to manage HP Bla - Page 20
, content, scripts, and configuration files. When these policies are associated with the right servers, you can provision them. HP SIM and PMP, enables the system administrator to determine the appropriate set of server blades to replace the current server blades. After the BladeSystem server blades - HP BL680c | HP Server Automation complements HP Insight Control to manage HP Bla - Page 21
quickly and easily deploys operating systems to server blades and clients using either image or script-based methods. The system administrator creates jobs, such as Deploy ProLiant ML/DL/BL + Windows 2003 Enterprise, containing a series of tasks that configure the hardware in the preboot environment - HP BL680c | HP Server Automation complements HP Insight Control to manage HP Bla - Page 22
Server Automation discovers the newly created server blades, and the HP Server Automation agent is deployed to each one. After the server blades , detach the policy from the server blades and remediate again. If rules are configured to automatically assign server blades to device groups, such as - HP BL680c | HP Server Automation complements HP Insight Control to manage HP Bla - Page 23
of large numbers of heterogeneous server blades and applications through its policy-based configuration and auditing capabilities. Today, Insight Control and Server Automation complement each other to make data center management more efficient. HP continues to investigate ways to improve - HP BL680c | HP Server Automation complements HP Insight Control to manage HP Bla - Page 24
.com/go/insightcontrol or http://www.hp.com/go/insightdynamics HP Server Automation: http://www.hp.com/go/hpsa © 2008 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
HP Server Automation complements HP Insight Control to
manage HP BladeSystem servers
Introduction
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HP BladeSystem
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Virtual Connect
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HP Insight Control
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Deploy
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HP Server Migration Pack – Universal Edition
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HP Rapid Deployment Pack
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Monitor
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HP Systems Insight Manager
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HP BladeSystem Integrated Manager
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HP Performance Management Pack
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System Management Homepage
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Control
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HP Integrated Lights-Out Remote Management
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Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager
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Protect
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Service Essentials Remote Support Pack
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Vulnerability and Patch Management Pack
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Optimize
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HP Insight Power Manager
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HP Virtual Machine Mangement Pack
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Integrate
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Enterprise Management Integration Solutions
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HP Server Automation
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Baseline
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Change and configuration management
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Compliance management
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Upgrade and provision
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Process automation
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Using Insight Control and Server Automation together
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Managing with Insight Control and Server Automation: Examples
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Example 1: Solving a CPU performance problem
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