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HP Insight Control server health monitoring provides server administrators with a comprehensive set of tools to monitoring and report server health. Based on HP Systems Insight Manager (SIM), Insight Control server health monitoring provides hardware event notification for HP servers, running most operating systems, in either a virtualized or physical server environment.

Insight Control 6.0 will be available for download in January 2010. Click here to be notified about product availability.

Components

HP Insight Control server health monitoring includes several key functions for delivering comprehensive hardware event management.

SIM is the clear choice for managing HP servers and storage because it’s the easiest, simplest and least expensive way for HP system administrators to maximize system uptime and health. It provides proactive notification of actual or impending component failure alerts and also enables users to configure the necessary action(s) to be taken on a specific failure, such as notifying appropriate users or execute scripts.

Remotely monitor your systems for hardware events using secure, proven technology and avoid problems before they occur. HP Insight Remote Support Advanced software is integrated with HP Systems Insight Manager to deliver secure remote support for your HP servers, storage, network SAN environments and selected multi-vendor devices 24x7.

Insight Control performance management

Insight Control detects, analyzes, and explains hardware bottlenecks on HP ProLiant servers. It provides the tools you need to receive proactive notification of building bottleneck conditions and debug existing performance issues, and can monitor performance on one or more servers.

Additional benefits include:

  • Prevent performance issues with server configuration analysis, proactive notification and interactive analysis
  • Solve after-hours performance problems with data logging and playback tool
  • Extend the useful life of a server by identifying the exact component causing performance issues with an explanation of the issues
  • Justify server replacement with inventory, data logging and summary reporting
  • Server consolidation by monitoring and logging for detailed analysis of candidate systems, as well as monitoring after the fact to guard against incompatible workloads  

Insight Control virtual machine management

HP Insight Control seamlessly merges hardware and heterogeneous virtualization management of VMware® ESX, Microsoft® Hyper-V, Citrix® XenServer, and Xen (on RHEL & SLES) platforms from one comprehensive user interface.

This helps you raise operational efficiency by unifying management of virtual and physical servers with physical-host-to-virtual-machine association, minimize downtime by proactively relocating VMs before hardware failures occur (based on HP SIM pre-failure alerting) and benefit from additional power savings by enabling the safe and orderly shutdown of VMware ESX hosts working in tandem with VMware Distributed Power Management.

Additional benefits include:

  • Easy identification of VMs or host servers reaching high CPU, memory or disk utilization levels
  • Highly flexible move capabilities that allows live moves and moves to dissimilar host resources
  • Create & restore templates, back up, alternate-host capabilities that enable restoration of VMs on any available host under failed-host-recovery conditions
  • Automatically respond to predictive hardware failures on host servers by relocating VMs before a server fails thus reducing downtime