HP Insight Control

HP Insight Control is essential server management that unleashes the management capabilities built into every HP ProLiant server. The result is superior management of physical and virtual servers, from any location. Insight Control integrates specific management functionality into HP Systems Insight Manager to manage server health, deploy and migrate servers quickly, optimize power consumption and performance, and control servers from anywhere.

With Insight Control, you can manage HP servers running Microsoft Windows, Red Hat and SUSE Linux, VMware ESX, and Microsoft Hyper-V environments. You can also enjoy single-console access using Insight Control with leading third- party enterprise management consoles, like HP Operations Manager, Microsoft System Center and VMware vCenter. Insight Control is also easy to buy, via standalone licenses or via bundles with HP ProLiant servers and BladeSystem enclosures.

• New HP Proliant Gen 8 servers supported
• Power management enhancements:
• Intelligent Power Discovery for HP BladeSystems
• Under-utilized server reports
• Power & Thermal reporting improvements
• Configurations modifications via ipmimport
• Goal-oriented response to power & cooling events
• VMware ESXi 5.0 management support (including lockdown-enabled mode)
• Server migrations supported across iSCSI, FCoE, and Linux SAN environments
• Performance management enhancements:
• Detect memory-slot config issues with recommended performance optimizations
• Memory configuration recommendations based on HP-specific memory population guidelines
• Configurable monitoring administration page
• Network adapter (NIC) teaming
• Systems Insight Manager (SIM) enhancements
• KVM hypervisor support on RHEL 6.1 and SLES 11
• Updated licensing reports
• HP SUM integration support for software/firmware baselines
• HP SUM integration support for off-line firmware upgrades (tech preview only)
• Discovery & identification of HP Networking A-series products (3COM)

Deploy, migrate and virtualize servers

You have recently purchased 80 new ProLiant servers and need them up-and-running quickly:

• On 25 of the new ProLiant servers you plan to deploy the latest operating systems and new business applications. Using Insight Control server deployment, you deploy new OS and business applications in minutes and get the servers into production.
• You need replace 25 old x86 servers with 25 new ProLiant servers for better performance but you need to retain the data (OS, application, configs, etc.) from the existing servers on the new servers. Insight Control server migration allows you an unlimited number of P2P migrations while preserving the existing/old server data. And Insight Control remote management allows you to track the task status from afar.
• Virtualizing 90 of your old/existing physical servers onto remaining 30 new ProLiant servers will allow better power and space utilization. Insight Control server deployment provisions the VMware ESX and & Microsoft Hyper-V platforms on the new ProLiant servers. Microsoft Hyper-V platforms on the new ProLiant servers. migration (OS, application, config, etc.) from the old physical servers onto the virtual machines ofn the new virtualized ProLiant servers.
• Your environment is now up-and-running with centralized management and monitoring. Insight Control is managing the physical and virtual assets of the heterogeneous environment.

Complete life-cycle management of your HP ProLiant

• Use HP Insight Control to centrally manage servers, storage and other infrastructure devices across heterogeneous operating system environments.
• Use the HP Insight Control remote management feature for emergency remote administration, remote access to server power control and event logs, remote deployment and update of remote servers.
• Use the HP Insight Control power management feature to monitor, manage and dynamically cap power consumption for your servers.
• Use the HP Insight Control performance management feature to detect and resolve server performance bottlenecks based on resource usage and independent of server application.
• Use the HP Insight Control virtual machine management feature to manage and gauge the health of physical and virtual servers.

Minimize downtime by proactively relocating virtual machines

Use HP Insight Control to detect pre-failure hardware alerts on the HP ProLiant servers and initiate relocating virtual machines to other host servers before any downtime occurs. You can use Insight Control to handle the pre-failure alerts in conjunction with virtualization vendor.

Single-console integration from Microsoft System Center

For customers that are standardized on Microsoft System Center, the Insight Control extensions for Microsoft System Center make the management and deployment capabilities of Insight Control available from their System Center console.

Single-console integration from VMware vCenter Server

For customers that are standardized on VMware vCenter Server the Insight Control extensions for VMware vCenter Server make the management and deployment capabilities of Insight Control available from their vCenter console.

HP Insight Control is essential server management software that unlocks the management capabilities built into your HP ProLiant server.

»	Deploy and Migrate Servers in a Quickly
»	Monitor iInfrastructure Health Continuously
»	Manage Performance Proactively
»	Control Servers from Anywhere
»	Optimize Power and Energy Effectively

	Deploy and Migrate Servers in a Quickly

• Use a fast, single drag-and-drop solution tool to completely 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, and Microsoft HyperV 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.

	Monitor iInfrastructure Health Continuously

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

Prevent virtual machine failures

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

Easy to implement

• Use the Insight Control installer or use HP Services to you get up and running quickly

	Manage Performance Proactively

• Quickly pinpoint and resolve bottlenecks with processors, memory, NICs, PCI buses to tune your existing server infrastructure for maximum performance.

Analyze issues accurately

• Compare actual performance with the known capabilities of each component, and determine --in real time-- which components are experiencing performance issues

Report performance promptly

• Log server performance data and replay it in off-line analysis, or report on server performance utilization, or analyze and report on problem component configurations.

	Control Servers from Anywhere

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

Capture and replay video

• Automatically capture video footage of failure sequences as well as complex configuration operations to assist in troubleshooting. 

Deploy servers remotely

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

Manage virtual machines

• Unify management of physical and virtual infrastructure. Associate VMware and Microsoft virtual machines with host servers. Deploy, monitor, control, and move virtualized assets. 

	Optimize Power and Energy Effectively

• Measure power usage for groups of servers to know how many servers can be deployed per rack.

Regulate power usage

• Reduce the cost of operating servers. Reduce power usage during peak power times to help lower energy bills.

Increase the capacity of your existing data center 

• Dynamic Power Capping. safely optimizes power usage to fit more servers within your existing power and thermal capacity, without affecting performance or electrical risk

Ensure uptime to critical services  

• Data Center Power Control ensures power and cooling delivery to critical services and workloads even during times of infrastructure failure. 

Manage rack & power planning

• Identify areas in your data center where you are electrically overloaded -- and where there is available capacity.

Improve energy allocations

• Accurately identify and eliminate areas of power waste, including under-utilized servers.
• Visualize data center thermals to find hotspots and identify at-risk services.
• Intelligent Power Discovery increases uptime and eliminates human error by using automatic power discovery during installations to associate servers to power circuits.
• Share power measurements from server environments with Facilities planning to accurately plan power and cooling capabilities using industry-leading software.

HP Insight Control is essential server management software that unlocks the management capabilities built into your HP ProLiant server.