HP Integrity rx2600 HP Insight Software Installation Checklist - Page 15

3 HP Insight Software installation and configuration parameters The Insight Software DVD supports installation and upgrade of individual products as well as the following suites: • HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) • HP Insight Control Environment (ICE) • HP Insight Control Environment for BladeSystem (ICE-BL) • HP Insight Dynamics - VSE • iLO Power Management Pack (iPMP) • iLO Power Management Pack for BladeSystem (iPMP-BL) HP Insight software uses an integrated installer to quickly and accurately deploy, configure, integrate, and update HP Insight software suites and individual management products. This wizard-based installer enables you to predefine installation and configuration preferences for HP management software, including access credentials, performance settings, and discovery parameters. Using the integrated installer, you can install all components as a single integrated process that requires minimal intervention. Component summary You can install the following components using the HP Insight Software Integrated Installer: • HP Integrated Lights-Out 2 Advanced Pack-Integrated management processor for shared remote consoles that delivers remote control performance and ease of use suitable for routine and emergency server administration. • HP Integrated Lights-Out 2 Advanced for BladeSystem-Integrated management processor for ProLiant BL servers that delivers remote control performance and ease of use suitable for routine and emergency server administration. • HP Insight Software Integrated Installer-A wizard-based installer used by HP Insight software suites to simplify the installation, configuration, and integration of HP SIM and Insight Essentials. • HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM)-Provides unified foundation management services for HP servers, storage, and network resources from a single console. HP SIM delivers centralized fault, configuration, inventory, performance management, warranty details, automated service call initiation and troubleshooting information. HP SIM is built according to industry standards to manage HP and third-party infrastructure resources. • HP Insight Power Manager (IPM)-Extends HP SIM with power consumption and thermal output monitoring to optimize data center power and cooling. Includes power regulation policies for groups of HP ProLiant servers. • HP Insight Rapid Deployment software (RDP) -Configures and deploys multiple servers quickly and predictably in an unattended fashion using scripts and system images. Includes predefined scripts to configure HP server hardware and deploy operating systems for Windows®, VMWare ESX™, and Linux platforms. • Insight Software Advisor-Automatically verifies the target platform for compliance with installation prerequisites. The Advisor runs a series of tests on the server and identifies issues that might affect the HP Insight software integrated installation or operation. NOTE: The Insight Software Advisor was formerly called the HP Insight Control Environment Advisor. • HP Performance Management Pack (PMP)-Enables HP SIM to proactively detect, analyze, and report performance bottlenecks on HP ProLiant and Integrity servers, Modular Storage Array storage, and VMware™ and Microsoft Virtual Server virtual machines to ensure server workloads run at peak performance levels. Component summary 15