HP Insight Control and HP Systems Insight Manager

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HP offers platform management software with HP servers. Foundational unified server management is provided by HP Systems Insight Manager (SIM), which provides support for HP ProLiant, Integrity, and BladeSystem servers; HP-UX, Windows, and Linux operating environments; HP Storage; and other industry standard servers.
HP SIM enables critical management functions such as hardware fault monitoring and alerting; hardware configuration, data collection, and reporting; and BIOS, firmware, and driver updates. HP Insight Control extends the capabilities of HP SIM with lifecycle functions. According to one customer, "HP SIM and HP ProLiant Management Packs give you predictive failures for hardware, and they also give you the exact diagnosis of the hardware faults."

HP Insight Control provides integrated management functions for HP ProLiant and HP BladeSystem servers and is founded on HP SIM and includes a number of additional components that plug into SIM. Management functions include automated server software deployment and migration, proactive health monitoring and performance management, complete remote management (with HP iLO Advanced), and energy optimization using power management and virtualization management. Similar capabilities are integrated for Linux-hosted environments. According to one customer, HP Insight Control along with SIM has streamlined server deployment considerably. "To deploy a server without SIM and Insight Control server deployment would take 2–3 hours," the customer reports. "Now we can do it in 20–30 minutes."
HP Insight Control software is deployed on a central management server that controls the core functions of deployment, monitoring, control, optimization, and integration. Managed servers are instrumented via the HP iLO management processor using HP Insight Management Agents, or using agentless management support on the latest generation of ProLiant servers.

HP Insight Control Functions

  • Deploy. Deployment facilities are based on the HP Insight Control server deployment software, which provides bare metal server deployment out of the box and enables servers to be built from defined profiles. Deployment includes on-the-fly server configuration and provisioning of operating system and application images. Firmware updating is integrated using HP Smart Update Manager (SUM) technology in SIM. HP Insight Control server migration software provides an easy-to-use wizard to migrate existing server images to new server hardware or to virtual server images and supports physical-to-physical (P2P), physical-to-virtual (P2V), virtual-to-physical (V2P), and virtual-to-virtual (V2V) migrations.
  • Manage. HP Insight Control and SIM provide centralized facilities for monitoring server and storage hardware. Alerts can be generated to notify actual or pending hardware problems, and these alerts can be forwarded from SIM to an enterprise management system. HP SIM also integrates with HP SUM for agentless firmware update distribution and supports software baselines. HP Insight Control performance management detects and troubleshoots hardware performance bottlenecks with real-time and offline analyses.
  • Optimize. Optimization reduces operational costs. Key capabilities include power management that can contribute to significant savings in utility costs and potentially eliminate capital outlays for new datacenters, and virtualization management that provides core capabilities for managing virtual environments to maximize performance and improve overall server utilization. Integration of Insight Control power management with leading facilities management solutions enables IT personnel to optimize energy use in data centers in cooperation with facilities groups.
  • Control. Remote control is provided by advanced management software based on innovative iLO Advanced features, now updated with a fourth-generation iLO release. Key capabilities include keyboard virtual mouse (KVM) for remote system console, virtual media for remote software update and file copy, and embedded system health monitoring.
  • Integrate. Key integrations provide single-console views through the management console of choice by using HP Insight Control for Microsoft System Center and HP Insight Control for VMware vCenter Server. The Microsoft System Center integration supports OS deployment and updates, HP ProLiant and BladeSystem management and alerting, proactive virtual machine management, and enhanced inventory reporting. The HP Insight Control VMware vCenter Server integration provides detailed server and enclosure configuration information, and this information is made available directly to virtualization administrators within the vCenter console. In addition to these management console integrations, HP SIM provides additional choices for integration with the HP Universal Configuration Management Data Base (UCMDB) or HP Operations Manager Software.

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