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HP Systems Insight Manager |
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HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) is the foundation
for the HP unified server-storage management strategy. HP SIM is a hardware-level
management product that supports multiple operating systems on HP ProLiant,
Integrity and HP 9000 servers, HP StorageWorks MSA, EVA, XP arrays, and
third-party arrays. Through a single management view of Microsoft®
Windows®, HP-UX 11iv1, HP-UX 11iv2, HP-UX 11iv3, and Red Hat, and
SUSE Linux, HP SIM provides the basic management features of system discovery
and identification, single-event view, inventory data collection, and
reporting. The core HP SIM software uses Web Based Enterprise Management
(WBEM) to deliver the essential capabilities required to manage all HP
server platforms.
HP SIM can be extended to provide systems management with plug-ins for
HP client, server, storage, power, and printer products. HP Insight Control
and Insight Dynamics build on and complement the HP SIM capabilities with
deployment, migration, power and performance management, remote monitoring
and control, integrated support for virtualization, infrastructure provisioning
and optimization, and continuity of services protection. Plug-in applications
for workload management, capacity management, virtual machine (VM) management,
and partition management using HP Integrity Essentials enable you to choose
the value-added software that delivers complete lifecycle management for
your hardware assets.
Most IT organizations understand that ongoing administration and maintenance
of existing infrastructure consumes the lion's share of their IT budgets,
while hardware and software acquisition costs only account for about 20%
of overall expenditures. How can you reduce your IT expenses? By streamlining
your processes and reducing complexity. With HP Systems Insight Manager
and optional Insight software, HP delivers a heterogeneous multi-OS server
and storage management solution that enables you to holistically monitor
and control your environment which improves operational efficiency and
reduces costs.
Unified infrastructure management from HP:
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Enhances your ability to troubleshoot complex problems
that span server and storage infrastructure
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Provides a single source for server and storage asset
information
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Provides a comprehensive selection of Insight Software
suites, Integrity Essentials, and Storage Essentials value-added plug-ins
for extended management HP ProLiant, Integrity, and StorageWorks platforms.
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Enables effective cross-training across domains of
expertise
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Allows your IT organization to focus less on daily
maintenance and more on meeting future business needs
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| Product Features |
HP SIM management
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- Fault management and event handling. HP SIM provides proactive
notification of actual or impending component failure alerts. Automatic
Event Handling enables you to configure actions to notify appropriate
users of failures through e-mail, pager, or Short Message Service (SMS)
gateway, and enables automatic execution of scripts or event forwarding
to enterprise platforms, such as HP Network Node Manager software or
HP Operations Manager software.
- Consistent multisystem management. HP SIM initiates a task
on multiple systems or nodes from a single command on the CMS. This
functionality eliminates the need for tedious, one-at-a-time operations
performed on each system.
- Two user interfaces. HP SIM provides the option of a browser-based
GUI or a command line interface (CLI) to make it easy to incorporate
HP SIM into your existing management processes.
Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) indications for HP-UX, Linux,
and Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) devices. HP SIM
enables you to use the GUI or CLI to subscribe and unsubscribe to WBEM
indications.
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Security
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- Role-based security. HP SIM enables effective delegation of
management responsibilities by giving system administrators granular
control over which users can perform specific management operations
on specific systems.
- Manage Secure Shell (SSH) keys. The SSH Keys feature enables
you to view and manage, from the CMS, the public SSH keys stored in
the known_hosts file. The SSH keys enable the CMS to authenticate a
secure connection with a managed system.
- Secure remote management. HP SIM leverages operating system
security for user authentication and uses Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
and Secure Shell (SSH) to encrypt management communications.
- Configure or Repair Agents. This feature enables you to repair
credentials for SNMP settings, System Management Homepage, or Management
HTTP Server trust relationships on Windows, Linux, and HP-UX systems
supported by HP SIM.
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Installation
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- Easy and rapid installation. HP SIM can be installed, quickly
and easily, on HP-UX 11i v1, HP-UX 11i v2, or HP-UX 11i v3 on PA-RISC/Integrity
server platforms, or on ProLiant platforms running Windows or Linux.
- First Time Wizard. HP SIM provides you with step-by-step, online
instructions for performing the initial configuration of HP SIM. The
wizard helps you configure HP SIM settings on the Central Management
Server (CMS).
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Discovery
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- HP SIM can automatically discover and identify systems attached to
the network. Discovery filters enable you to limit discovery to specific
network segments or IP address ranges. Use discovery filters to prevent
discovery of unwanted system types.
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Custom tools
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- HP SIM defines tools using simple XML documents that enable you to
integrate off-the-shelf or custom tools. These tools can be command
line tools, web-based applications, or scripts. Access to these integrated
tools is governed by role-based security.
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Reporting
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- Data collection and inventory reports. HP SIM performs comprehensive
system data collection and enables you to quickly produce detailed inventory
reports for managed systems. Reports can be generated in HTML, XML,
or CSV format. Data collection and reporting has been added for HP Superdome
systems and other cellular complexes. Data that can be collected includes
information on enclosures, cabinets, cells, memory, Integrity virtual
machines, non-Integrity virtual machines, virtual partitions (vPars),
and hard partitions (nPars). The type of data collected depends on what
filters are selected.
- Snapshot comparisons. HP SIM enables you to compare configuration
snapshots of up to four different servers, or compare configuration
snapshots of a single server over a period of time. This functionality
assists IT staff in pinpointing configuration issues that can contribute
to system instability. Snapshot comparisons can also be used to save
a picture of a standard configuration for comparisons to other systems.
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| HP Insight Control suite 6.0 |
Building on HP Systems Insight Manager, Insight Control suite delivers
comprehensive management for ProLiant ML/DL and BladeSystem servers. For
detailed information on HP Insight Control suite, go to: http://www.hp.com/go/insightcontrol.
- Server deployment automates the process of server configuration
and software deployment, enabling users to quickly and easily adapt
to changing business demands by bringing servers to production quicker.
- Server migration provides an automated, accurate and affordable
way to migrate existing servers and their content to the latest HP BladeSystem
or ProLiant server technologies or the latest virtualization platforms
from VMware, Microsoft, and Citrix.
- Virtual machine management unifies the management of physical
and virtual server resources and provides central management and control
of VMware ESX, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer and Xen on Linux
virtual machines.
- Power management helps IT administrators optimize usage of
data center power and cooling resources. It accurately measures maximum
and average power consumption and air temperature for select HP ProLiant
and BladeSystem servers and allows IT administrators to establish power
policies - including the option to establish power consumption limits
- across customer defined groups of systems.
- Performance management detects, analyzes, and explains hardware
configuration issues and performance bottlenecks on HP ProLiant servers,
HP Integrity servers and MSA shared storage. It provides the tools you
need to receive proactive notification of building bottleneck conditions,
and to debug existing performance issues.
- Remote management, featuring HP iLO Advanced, provides for
a no-install, comprehensive Lights-Out remote management capabilities
for ProLiant servers. Everything you can do if you are physically at
the server, you can do remotely with iLO Advanced, anytime, regardless
of server or operating system condition. Capabilities include: graphical
remote access (Virtual KVM), team collaboration, server boot and fault
video footage, on-demand video record/playback, virtual media and virtual
folders, just to name a few.
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| HP Insight Dynamics |
HP Insight Dynamics analyzes and optimizes your adaptive infrastructure
to accelerate complex IT projects and simplify daily operations. HP Insight
Dynamics supports select HP ProLiant servers, HP Integrity servers, and
non-HP servers (x86), and uses an integrated installer to deploy, configure
and integrate HP management components as a single process. For detailed
information on Insight Dynamics suites visit: http://www.hp.com/go/insightdynamics.
- Capacity planning for planning server capacity and power. Through
the new Smart Solver technology, it collects and analyzes historical
data across thousands of variables on virtual and physical resources
and generates plans for consolidation and rebalancing of existing workloads.
- Configuration management visualizes physical and virtual infrastructure
for ProLiant, BladeSystem, and Integrity servers and allows you -- through
logical server management -- to manage physical and virtual servers
in the same way. Logical servers are server profiles, which are easily
created and freely moved across physical and virtual machines.
- Infrastructure orchestration enables rapid and consistent infrastructure
provisioning. It uses a drag-and-drop visual design tool to easily design
simple or complex infrastructure templates, comprised of physical and
virtual servers, storage, and network resources. It automatically provisions
from a library of templates through a web-based self-service portal.
It integrates with existing tools and processes using the included workflow
automation engine powered by HP Operations Orchestration.
- Recovery management provides for automated disaster recovery
of logical server environments. With a simple mouse click, it transfers
application environments, running on HP BladeSystem or in virtual machines,
to a remote recovery site. It utilizes the data replication capabilities
of HP storage environments to ensure that application data is properly
transitioned to the recovery location and that the overall transition
is measured in minutes, not days. Insight Recovery is not supported
on HP Integrity or on non-HP servers.
- Workload management for HP Integrity servers to automatically
move resources based on business priorities.
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| Minimum Hardware
and Software Requirements for HP Systems Insight Manager |
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a VM (Virtual Machine). HP SIM is an i/o intensive application at times
(when it is doing data collection/inventory, when doing discovery, when
doing large scale deployments) and as such isn't recommended above 750-1000
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Windows Central
Management Server
NOTE: This section contains the minimum
requirements for the Windows operating system that is used for the CMS |
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Windows Central Management Server
NOTE: This section contains the
minimum requirements for the Windows operating system that is used for
the CMS
Operating systems:
- Windows Server 2008 Standard
- Windows Server 2008 Standard SP2
- Windows Server 2008 Standard x64 Edition
- Windows Server 2008 Standard x64 Edition SP2
- Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard
- Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard x64
- Windows Server 2008 Enterprise
- Windows Server 2008 Enterprise SP2
- Windows Server 2008 Enterprise x64 Edition
- Windows Server 2008 Enterprise x64 Edition SP2
- Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise
- Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise x64
- Windows Small Business Server 2008
- Windows Small Business Server 2008 SP2
- Windows Web Server 2008
- Windows Web Server 2008 SP2
- Windows Small Business Server 2003 SP2
- Windows Vista Business and Enterprise
- Windows Vista Business and Enterprise with SP2
- Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard SP2
- Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard SP2 64-bit
- Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise
- Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise SP2 64-bit
- Windows Server 2003 Standard SP2 32-bit
- Windows Server 2003 Standard 64-bit
- Windows Server 2003 Standard SP2 64-bit
- Windows Server 2003 Enterprise SP2
- Windows Server 2003 Enterprise SP2 64-bit
- Supported 32-bit Windows operating system running as guest on the
following VMware systems:
- VMware ESX v3.0.2
- VMware ESX v3.0.3
- VMware ESX v3.5 Update 3
- VMware ESX v3.5 Update 4
- VMware ESX v3.5 Update 5
- VMware ESX v3i Update 3
- VMware ESX v3i Update 4
- VMware ESX v3i Update 5
- VMware ESX v4.0
- VMware ESX v4.0 Update 1
- VMware ESX v4i
- VMware ESX v4i Update 1
- Microsoft Hyper-V running guest Windows 2003 Standard and Enterprise
- Microsoft Hyper-V running guest Windows 2008 Standard and Enterprise
- The Central Management Server supports Microsoft Windows 2003 International
Server - French, German, Italian, Spanish, Korean, Chinese, and Japanese
(latest service pack available for each language).
Hardware:
Any HP ProLiant with the following configuration:
- Minimum: 1.5-GHz processor with 1 GB RAM
- 1 GB free disk space recommended
- Recommended: 2.4-GHz processor with 2 GB RAM
NOTE: The ProLiant ML/DL 100 series
servers do not support HP Insight Remote Support Advanced. If you are
using HP Insight Remote Support Advanced, you must use a ProLiant 300,
500, 700, or Blade Server. If Microsoft SQL Server is installed on the
CMS, an additional 512 MB of RAM should be installed. HP Netserver platforms
can be used for the Central Management Server as long as the Instant Toptools
software is not installed and all other requirements are met.
Software:
Database software:
- Microsoft SQL Server 2005 with Service Pack 3 (remote or local)
- Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express
- Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express with Service Pack 1
- Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Standard or Enterprise
- Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Standard or Enterprise with Service Pack
1 (remote or local)
- Oracle 9i
- Oracle 10g version 10.2.0.3 or later
- Postgres 8.2.1
Browser software:
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0
- Mozilla Firefox 3.0.10
- Mozilla Firefox 3.1
- Mozilla Firefox 3.5
Networking:
- Static or dynamic host name resolution
- TCP/IP
- SNMP
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HP SIM can provide some level of manageability for non-HP systems (including
servers, storage, printers, routers, etc) as follows:
- For devices that are using Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP),
- HP SIM can provide Status polling (up/down), device identification
and events collection (SNMP traps). In order to use SNMP traps for event
collection, users must compile and register the related MIBs
- For devices that are using WBEM/WMI HP SIM provides some data collection.
- For HTTP/HTTPS devices it provides Web server identification and link
population.
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| Windows managed systems |
- Windows Server 2008, Standard Edition
- Windows Server 2008 R2, Standard Edition
- Windows Server 2008, Standard Edition SP2
- Windows Server 2008, Standard Core
- Windows Server 2008, Standard x64 Edition
- Windows Server 2008, Standard x64 Edition SP2
- Windows Server 2008 R2, Enterprise Edition
- Windows Server 2008, Enterprise Edition
- Windows Server 2008, Enterprise Edition SP2
- Windows Server 2008, Enterprise Core
- Windows Server 2008, Enterprise x64 Edition
- Windows Server 2008, Enterprise x64 Edition SP2
- Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 Edition
- Windows Server 2008, Datacenter Edition
- Windows Server 2008, Datacenter Edition SP2
- Windows Server 2008, Datacenter Core
- Windows Server 2008 Small Business Sever
- Windows Server 2008 Small Business Sever SP2
- Windows Server 2008, Web Edition
- Windows Server 2008, Web Edition SP2
- Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-based systems
- Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-based system SP2
- Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition
- Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition SP1
- Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition SP2
- Windows Server 2003, Standard x64 Edition
- Windows Server 2003, Standard x64 Edition SP1
- Windows Server 2003, Standard x64 Edition SP2
- Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition
- Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition SP1
- Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition SP2
- Windows Server 2003, Enterprise x64 Edition
- Windows Server 2003, Enterprise x64 Edition SP1
- Windows Server 2003, Enterprise x64 Edition SP2
- Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition for Itanium based systems
- Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition SP1 for Itanium-based systems
- Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition SP2 for Itanium-based systems
- Windows Server 2003, Web Edition
- Windows Server 2003, Web Edition SP1
- Windows Server 2003, Web Edition SP2
- Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition
- Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition SP1
- Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition SP2
- Windows Server 2003, Datacenter x64 Edition
- Windows Server 2003, Datacenter x64 Edition SP1
- Windows Server 2003, Datacenter x64 Edition SP2
- Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition for Itanium-based systems
- Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition SP1 for Itanium-based systems
- Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition SP2 for Itanium-based systems
- Windows 2003 R2, DataCenter
- Windows 2003 R2, DataCenter SP2
- Windows Server 2003 R2, Standard Edition
- Windows Server 2003 R2, Standard Edition SP2
- Windows Server 2003 R2, Standard x64 Edition
- Windows Server 2003 R2, Standard x64 Edition SP2
- Windows Server 2003 R2, Enterprise Edition
- Windows Server 2003 R2, Enterprise Edition SP2
- Windows Server 2003 R2, Enterprise x64 Edition
- Windows Server 2003 R2, Enterprise x64 Edition SP2
- Windows Server 2003 R2, Datacenter x64 Edition
- Windows Server 2003 R2, Datacenter x64 Edition SP2
- Windows 2000 (Server and Advanced Server) SP1-SP4
- Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
- Windows NT4 Service Pack 6
- Windows Small Business Server 2003
- Windows Small Business Server 2003, SP1
- Windows Small Business Server 2003, SP2
- Windows Vista Business
- Windows Vista Business, SP1
- Windows Vista Business, SP2
- Windows Vista Enterprise
- Windows Vista Enterprise, SP1
- Windows Vista Enterprise, SP2
- Windows XP Professional, SP1
- Windows XP Professional, SP2
- Windows XP Professional, SP3
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managed systems |
- HP-UX 11i v1 (11.11)
- HP-UX 11i v2 (11.23 IA only)
- HP-UX 11i v2 Update 2 (11.23 PI-PA)
- HP-UX 11i v3 (11.31 IA/PA)
- HP Tru64 UNIX
- HP NonStop Kernel
- OpenVMS
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| Linux managed systems |
- Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.3 x86
- Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.3 AMD64/EM64T
- Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.2 x86
- Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.2 AMD64/EM64T
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 IPF, Update 4
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 x86, Update 4
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 AMD64/EM64T, Update 4
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 IPF, Update 3
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 x86, Update 3
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 AMD64/EM64T, Update 3
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 IPF, Update 2
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 x86, Update 2
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 AMD64/EM64T, Update 2
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 IPF, Update 1
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 x86, Update 1
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 AMD64/EM64T, Update 1
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 IPF, Update 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 x86, Update 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 AMD64/EM64T, Update 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 IPF, Update 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 x86, Update 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 AMD64/EM64T, Update 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 IPF, Update 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 x86, Update 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 AMD64/EM64T, Update 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 IPF, Update 9
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 x86, Update 9
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 AMD64/EM64T, Update 9
- Red Hat Linux 9 Workstation
- Red Hat Linux 8 Workstation
- Red Hat Linux 7.3 Workstation
- SUSE Enterprise Linux 11 IPF
- SUSE Enterprise Linux 11 x86
- SUSE Enterprise Linux 11 AMD64/EM64T
- SUSE Enterprise Linux 10 IPF, SP3
- SUSE Enterprise Linux 10 x86, SP3
- SUSE Enterprise Linux 10 AMD64/EM64T, SP3
- SUSE Enterprise Linux 10 IPF, SP2
- SUSE Enterprise Linux 10 x86, SP2
- SUSE Enterprise Linux 10 AMD64/EM64T, SP2
- SUSE Enterprise Linux 10 IPF, SP1
- SUSE Enterprise Linux 10 x86, SP1
- SUSE Enterprise Linux 10 AMD64/EM64T, SP1
- SUSE Enterprise Linux 9 IPF, SP4
- SUSE Enterprise Linux 9 x86, SP4
- SUSE Enterprise Linux 9 AMD64/EM64T, SP4
- SUSE Enterprise Linux 9 IPF, SP3
- SUSE Enterprise Linux 9 x86, SP3
- SUSE Enterprise Linux 9 AMD64/EM64T, SP3
- SUSE Enterprise Linux 8 IPF
- SUSE Enterprise Linux 8/UnitedLinux 1.0
- Debian 5.0
NOTE: Operating systems with only IPX
enabled are not identified by an HP-UX or Linux Central Management Server
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| VMware managed systems |
- VMWare ESX v3.0.3
- VMWare ESX v3.0.2
- VMWare ESX v3.0.1
- VMWare ESX 3.5 Update 5
- VMWare ESX 3.5 Update 4
- VMWare ESX 3.5 Update 3
- VMWare ESX 3.5 Update 2
- VMWare ESX 3.5 Update 1
- VMWare ESX 3i Update 5
- VMWare ESX 3i Update 4
- VMWare ESX 3i Update 3
- VMWare ESX 3i Update 2
- VMWare ESX 3i Update 1
- VMWare ESX 4.0 Update 1
- VMWare ESX 4.0
- VMWare ESX 4i Update 1
- VMWare ESX 4i
- Xen on RH 5
- Xen on SLES 11
- Xen on SLES 10
- Citrix XenServer Enterprise
- VMWare GSX 3.2.1
- VMWare GSX 3.2
- Integrity VM Windows (running guest OS Windows)
- Integrity VM Linux (running guest OS Linux)
- Integrity VM HP-UX (running guest OS HP-UX 11i v2)
- Integrity VM HP-UX (running guest OS HP-UX 11i v3)
- Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1
- Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2
- Microsoft Hyper-V running guest Windows x86
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| SUN managed systems |
- Solaris 9 Sparc
- Solaris 10 Sparc
- Solaris 10 Intel Platform
- Solaris 9 Intel Platform
- Solaris 8 Intel Platform
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| IBM managed systems |
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