HP Insight Control - Manual (Page 10)

Insight Control features and capabilities
A full installation of all Insight Control components provides the following features and capabilities:
NOTE: If you did not install all components of Insight Control the list of features will vary for your
environment.
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Rapid OS deployments Insight Control provides a server deployment solution that facilitates the
installation, configuration, and deployment of high-volumes of servers. Server configuration time is
reduced, making it possible to scale server deployments to high volumes in a rapid fashion.
Insight Control also enables you to perform remote operations on the server such as turning power on
or off and rebooting. The only physical intervention required by your IT staff is installing the server into
the rack, connecting the server to the network, and reading the server's integrated lights out (iLO)
network information tag.
See Chapter 5 “Deploying operating systems to managed systems” for more information about deploying
OSs to servers.
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Virtualized environment management Insight Control virtual machine management capabilities provide
tracking, monitoring, and control functions for organizing an effective virtualized environment.
Key benefits include the ability to manage physical and virtual servers from one user interface, being
able to gauge the health of the complete infrastructure using performance indicators for hosts and virtual
machines, and automatic responses to predictive hardware failures on hypervisor host servers by
relocating virtual machines before a server fails, reducing downtime.
See Chapter 6 “Managing a virtual machine environment” for more information about managing virtual
machines.
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Robust power management Insight Control includes a set of power management tools that provide
centralized monitoring and control of server power consumption and thermal output.
See Chapter 7 “Optimizing server power consumption and cooling” for more information about power
management features.
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Robust server performance monitoring and management Insight Control includes a set of performance
management tools that enable you to set performance thresholds, run various performance reports, and
analyze real time performance of one or more servers. Insight Control performance monitoring detects
performance bottlenecks and provides performance improvement recommendations.
See Chapter 8 “Managing and monitoring server performance” for more information about performance
management.
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Automated and accurate server migration Insight Control server migration software enables you to
migrate an existing server to a new physical or virtual server. The migration process is automated,
accurate, affordable, and simple to use. Server migration features enable you to replicate the servers
that are running correctly, but might be under-performing or are over-provisioned, to a new physical
or virtual server in an automated and accurate way. Server migration enables you to easily transfer
the settings from an existing CMS to a new one.
See Chapter 9 “Migrating existing physical or virtual servers to another server” for more information
about migrating servers.
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Scalable monitoring for hundreds of servers Insight Control and Systems Insight Manager can monitor
and manage hundreds of servers with the infrastructure to support hundreds of servers.
Integrated security features
The HP Insight Software Getting Started Guide lists security considerations and best practices recommended
by HP. Review that information to ensure you have implemented an appropriate security solution for your
environment.
10 Introduction to using HP Insight Control