HP ProLiant Essentials Foundation Pack

• ProLiant Essentials Foundation Pack includes 2 SmartStart (one for x86 32-bit and one for x86 64-bit operating systems), ProLiant Support Pack for Windows (Included in the StartStart CD), ProLiant Support Pack for Linux (included in the SmartStart CD), 1 Management CD
• Pack contains the essential software every customer needs to install, configure, and manage ProLiant servers as part of an adaptive infrastructure.
• Ships standard with every ProLiant server.
• Single, comprehensive source for all ProLiant server support software.
• Features a wide selection of essential software tools, including: HP Systems Insight Manager, SmartStart, ActiveUpdate, and much more.
• Regular enhancements and upgrades are included as standard.
• Subscription service available to keep customers always up-to-date.
• Additional HP ProLiant Core Management Software includes: Firmware Maintenance CD, HP BladeSystem Firmware Development Tool, and SmartStart Scripting Toolkit.

Ideal for...

Customer Problem

• All customers require a dependable method to take their servers to a fully deployed, operational, and managed status within their IT infrastructure quickly, consistently, reliably, using minimal precious resources

Typical Use

• One to any number of ProLiant servers
• New deployments and re-deployments of existing servers
• Any size customer infrastructure: small to massive, single office to worldwide enterprises, basic to highly complex
• New infrastructure build-outs or expansions of existing ones
• Implement total server management from anywhere at anytime
• Consolidating workloads and applications into fewer and fewer servers often necessitates the need for increased network adapter bandwidth and physical ports
• Any customer experience level: first time server owners to full-time IT administrators

HP Solves the Customer Problem

• HP delivers one complete, easy to use set of tools engineered to address any customer scenario and also provides standard installation support for all ProLiant servers with more comprehensive, custom agreements available to meet any customer business need worldwide

• "Driven By" HP Smart Update Manager > ProLiant Support Pack, Firmware Maintenance CD, BladeBlaster CD.
• HP Smart Update Manager technological trends assist with reducing the complexity for system administrators for provisioning and updating HP ProLiant Servers, Options and Blades within the datacenter
• HP Smart Update Manager provides a Graphical User Interface (GUI) and a command-line, scriptable interface for deployment of firmware for single or one-to-many servers. Has a hardware and software discovery engine that will discover the firmware and software versions on target servers, this prevents it from sending components to a target node that may not be needed, reducing the overall network traffic needed to deploy updates. HPSUM also has logic in it to break circular and semi-circular dependencies. It also contains logic to prevent version-based dependencies from derailing an installation, will prevent a downgrade in this situation to prevent the loss of user credentials. HPSUM does not require an agent for remote installations as it copies a small SOAP server to the target server for the duration of the installation. Once the installation is completed, the SOAP server is removed along with all remote files associated with the installation; the log files from the remote targets are copied back to the system where HPSUM is executed
• Key Features:
  • Agent-less solution
  • Dependency checking - ensure appropriate install order and dependency between components
  • Intelligent deployment - only deploy the update necessary components
  • Firmware & Software can be combined and deployed together
  • Improved deployment performance
  • Local or remote (1-to-many) online deployment
  • Local offline deployments
  • Remote offline deployment when used with the SmartStart Scripting Toolkit or iLO Virtual Media
  • GUI or CLI/Scriptable with extensive logging
  • Remote command-line deployment