HP Insight Control 6.0

HP Insight Control helps our customers to quickly and easily determine and put to use the value of HP Insight management software, enabling them to reap the benefit of this software faster than with products from other vendors. » Deploy and migrate servers in a quick and reliable manner » Proactively monitor health of your infrastructure with one simple, integrated interface » Control from anywhere to realize reduced travel budgets and improved system recovery times » Optimize power confidently up to triple the capacity of your datacenter » Faster availability		Product information » Overview & Features » Key benefits » Questions & Answers

	Deploy and migrate servers in a quick and reliable manner

• Use a fast, single drag-and-drop solution tool to complete automate almost everything from hardware configuration through OS and application deployment. Produce reliable and consistent configurations across multiple servers—and even multiple sites

Easy, accurate migration of servers

• Automate migration of workloads from existing servers to the latest HP ProLiant server technologies or to virtual machines on VMware ESX , Microsoft HyperV and Citrix XenServer hosts

Firmware updates 

• Automate update of firmware and OS components together as part of a single task/application

Template-based virtual machine deployment

• Facilitate easy deployment of virtual machines by offering a template function, including all relevant virtual machine disk information needed to create and register a new virtual machine

	Proactively monitor health of your infrastructure with one simple, integrated interface

• Monitor system health and performance through HP SIM, including “phone home” and warranty and service contract reporting functions

Resolve problems quickly

• Quickly pinpoint and resolve bottlenecks to get the most out of your existing server infrastructure with proactive performance management 

Prevent virtual failures

• Take predictive failure actions and move virtual machines before hardware fails in VMware environments 

Easy to implement

• HP Services help you get up and running quickly so you can get the most out of Insight Control 

	Control from anywhere to realize reduced travel budgets and improved system recovery times

• Take control of remote servers from any location whether the OS is running or offline. Up to four administrators can share a single session.

Video Capture and Replay

• Automatically capture video footage of failure sequences as well as complex configuration operations 

Deploy servers remotely

• Perform unattended server deployment with remote deployment and remote operations such as switching the server on and off or rebooting. 

Manage virtual machines

• Unified management of physical and virtual infrastructure: Associate VMware, and Microsoft and Citrix virtual machines with host servers and deploy, monitor, control, and move virtualized assets 

	Optimize power confidently up to triple the capacity of your datacenter

• Measure power usage for groups of servers – so you know how many servers can be deployed per rack

Regulate power usage

• Reduce the cost of operating servers

Reclaim trapped capacity 

• Up to triple the capacity of your existing data center with Dynamic Power Capping, which allows you to safely cap power usage to fit more servers within your existing power envelope, without putting the electrical infrastructure at risk

	Faster Availability

• Electronic Software Delivery (eSD) provides faster availability of HP software products with no paper management for you and zero environmental impact.