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What is HP Insight Dynamics suite for ProLiant? |
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HP Insight Dynamics is advanced infrastructure management software that helps you to provision infrastructure in minutes, optimize infrastructure confidently, and protect continuity of services. It is a single toolkit to accelerate complex IT projects, simplify daily operations, and manage data center capacity and power proactively. |
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What are the benefits of HP Insight Dynamics? |
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HP Insight Dynamics lets enterprises cut operational costs and adapt their infrastructure as their business grows. For example, HP estimates this software will reduce the cost of common data center tasks by as much as 40%. It will help accelerate top IT project schedules by weeks or months, easily repurpose resources to match their business priorities, and extend the life of their datacenters with energy-aware capacity planning. |
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What are the use cases for Insight Dynamics? |
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HP Insight Dynamics creates new possibilities for tackling your toughest IT project. Here are a few of the ways to put the software to work to drive better business outcomes:
- Continuous consolidation—Plan large scale consolidations in hours and then continuously optimize your resources by rapidly repurposing and balancing your
infrastructure.
- Energy-aware capacity planning—Extend the life of your data center by quickly identifying and consolidating inefficient servers onto fewer, more power efficient ones.
- Everyday high availability—Enjoy fast and affordable protection and shorter maintenance windows by easily moving logical servers to spare capacity
- Dynamic infrastructure provisioning—Accelerate time to production by quickly repurposing test and development hardware without complicated re-installation and archiving test environments for re-use in minutes.
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How do I buy HP Insight Dynamics? |
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HP ProLiant customers should buy the HP Insight Dynamics suite for ProLiant, which includes capacity planning, configuration management, infrastructure orchestration and recovery management. For customers with Insight Control already installed, we offer a convenient upgrade package. |
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How does Insight Dynamics for ProLiant servers relate to HP Systems Insight Manager, HP Insight Control and HP Insight Dynamics for Integrity servers? |
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HP Insight Dynamics for ProLiant builds on HP Systems Insight Manager, HP Insight Control and HP Insight Dynamics for Integrity. By combining the best of HP’s industry-leading infrastructure management portfolio into one, powerful offering, you now have a single toolkit to accelerate complex IT projects and simplify daily operations. |
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What key functionality does HP Insight Dynamics deliver? |
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HP Insight Dynamics delivers 4 key capabilities for HP platforms:
- Capacity planning
- Configuration management
- Infrastructure orchestration
- Recovery management
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Can I get Insight Dynamics functionality on both ProLiant and Integrity servers? |
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Enter Content Here: Yes, the capabilities of HP Insight Dynamics are available for both ProLiant and Integrity servers. For ProLiant, they are part of the HP Insight Dynamics suite for Integrity. For Integrity, they are delivered through the HP Insight Dynamics suite for Integrity. The capacity planning and visualization capabilities of Insight Dynamics are identical across both platforms. |
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If I use VMware, what does Insight Dynamics add? |
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HP Insight Dynamics works in conjunction with Virtual Center and lets you move server profiles across both physical servers and virtual machines. Utilizing the logical server capability for physical blades, you can move the server profile of the VMware host, and restart the guests on the host on a spare resource. This contributes to higher levels of availability and service. Since Insight Dynamics is able to capture detailed hardware metrics like power, it makes it easier to optimize your workloads to minimize power consumption. By supplementing VMware Virtual Center with HP Insight Dynamics you can manage your physical and virtual servers in the same way. |
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How is the HP Insight Dynamics suite for ProLiant servers licensed? |
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The HP Insight Dynamics suite is licensed per server. HP BladeSystem enclosure customers can also buy convenient 8-server and 16-server licensing packs, similar to Insight Control suites for HP BladeSystem. |
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What support and services are available for the HP Insight Dynamics? |
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Each purchased license for HP Insight Dynamics includes one year of 24 x 7 HP Software Technical Support and Update Service, ensuring rapid access to HP support staff and proactive delivery of software updates. |
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Where can I learn more about HP Insight Dynamics? |
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Visit the following web pages to learn more about HP Insight
Dynamics:
www.hp.com/go/insightdynamics.
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