HP Insight Dynamics - VSE is the world's first integrated solution that lets you analyze and optimize physical and virtual resources in the same way. By combining the best of the HP infrastructure management portfolio into one, HP Insight Dynamics - VSE gives you a powerful toolkit to accelerate complex technology projects and simplify daily operations. It makes your infrastructure more adaptive, with the freedom and flexibility of virtualization delivered across your physical infrastructure. With advanced planning and visualization, it makes change more predictable and easier to manage. HP Insight Dynamics - VSE is the ideal tool to help you continuously consolidate and optimize your infrastructure, build a more dynamic test and development infrastructure, provide fast and affordable high availability where it was not cost-effective before, and perform energy-aware capacity planning.

The Insight Dynamics - VSE Suite for HP ProLiant platforms is integrated by design, delivering capabilities greater than the sum of its parts. HP Insight Dynamics - VSE is based on proven technologies from HP, such as HP Virtual Server Environment, HP Insight Control, and HP Virtual Connect, plus new innovations such as Smart Solver technology for capacity planning and logical servers, for increased productivity in deploying and managing your physical and virtual infrastructure. The new software seamlessly plugs into HP Systems Insight Manager, the world's most popular platform management tool.

The Insight Dynamics - VSE Suite includes the new logical server and capacity planning capabilities, Server Migration Pack - Universal Edition, and HP Insight Control. Customers that have Insight Control can buy convenient upgrade packages. For customer infrastructures that include Virtual Connect, Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager (purchased separately) is strongly recommended for use with Insight Dynamics - VSE.

One Insight Dynamics - VSE license is required for each HP ProLiant server to be managed, and licenses may not be transferred once assigned to a server. Licenses include 1 year of HP Technical Support and Software Updates, and care pack options are available to further extend this Service. Insight Dynamics - VSE Installation and Startup Service is mandatory for the instance of HP SIM to be installed, setup, and configured to run and manage servers with the software. After HP SIM is fully installed and operational with Insight Dynamics - VSE, customers may purchase and add-on more Insight Dynamics - VSE licenses themselves, as their business needs require.

• Support for 8 and 16 license entitlements for HP ProLiant servers
• Support for HP Consolidation Pack for HP ProLiant Flexible Licenses

NOTE: The HP Insight Dynamics - VSE Suite is licensed per server. One server license is required for every managed server. Licenses are non-transferable. Full details are contained in the End User License Agreement.

For each purchased license, a license entitlement certificate will be delivered. The license entitlement certificate contains information needed to redeem license activation key(s) online or via fax. For more information, please visit: http://www.hp.com/go/ICE-license.

The HP Insight Dynamics - VSE Suite is provide on DVD media included in the Insight Control Management Software Media Kit, and can also be downloaded from: http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/fpdownload.html

NOTE: For more information regarding HP Insight Dynamic - VSE visit: www.hp.com/go/insightdynamics

HP Insight Dynamics - VSE lets enterprises cut operational costs and adapt their infrastructure as their business grows. For example, it helps them accelerate their top IT project schedules by weeks or months, easily repurpose resources to match their business priorities, extend the life of their datacenters with energy-aware capacity planning and free untapped resources for use where they are needed most. Specifically, HP Insight Dynamics - VSE helps enterprises:

• Reduce costs: HP estimates the software will reduce the cost of common data centre tasks by as much as 40 percent, reducing costs associated with capacity planning, provisioning, upgrades and changes, and energy. Enterprises can realize the cost benefits of virtualization faster by cutting analysis time for capacity planning and consolidation from months to days. Manually created Excel spreadsheets or resource intensive services engagements can be replaced by instantly available data.
• Increase speed of change: By collapsing steps and saving administrative time with key tasks, enterprises can accelerate key IT projects. Administrators can reduce tasks associated with provisioning, upgrades and changes from weeks to days or even hours. For example, moving a workload from one server to another with a simple drag and drop takes minutes, while traditional approaches can take days or weeks, and often requires extensive coordination between server, storage, networking and facilities groups.
• Improve quality: Insight Dynamics - VSE software enables everyday high availability previously unavailable to many applications due to complex and redundant clustering requirements. By easily redeploying logical servers in the event of hardware failure, customers can enjoy fast and affordable protection.
• Manage energy : Insight Dynamics - VSE makes the energy consumption of different data centre configurations visible. In consolidation projects we typically see up to 40 % power savings which can be realized through the optimized hardware architecture you implement based on energy usage patterns and projections.

• Bring the flexibility of virtualization to physical servers through logical servers:
  • A server profile that is easily created and freely moved across physical and virtual machines
  • Can be physical blade servers, virtual machines or offline templates
  • Bring logical server on-line quickly for increased capacity, new projects or server recovery
  • Shorten maintenance window by rapidly moving server profile
  • Drag and drop capability to move logical servers
• Real-time capacity planning for servers and power to optimize utilization
  • Measure utilization for CPU, memory, network, disk and power
  • Collect more than a thousand data points per server per day
  • New Smart Solver technology developed by HP Labs automates consolidation or re-balancing analysis
  • New 5-star rating system for best-fit placement
  • Create inventories and reports
  • Eliminates guesswork and months of tedious capacity planning and research
  • Make decisions faster, matching your business priorities
• Control physical and virtual resources in the same way
  • Based on HP Systems Insight Manager, the infrastructure management platform used by more companies than any other
  • Visualize and manage logical servers whether they are built on physical or virtual machines, eliminating the management silos
  • Designed to work with virtual machine technologies
  • Get detailed configuration and utilization information at a glance with simple metres that show real-time use of processors, memory, network, storage and power
  • Simplify processes with a single interface to manage virtual and physical environments without breaking existing organizations and processes.

Many customers are still using spreadsheets to do capacity planning. Many resources, even after virtual machines are deployed are still at less than 40% utilization on average. Most tools do not give administrators real data that they can use to make decisions and act with confidence. Performance, consolidation, cost and power are usually rough estimates, validated only by trial and error.

Benefits:

• Lower cost of IT operations: fewer systems, smaller footprint, fewer software licenses and lower power requirements.
• Maintain higher service levels throughout the life of the applications.
• Up to 40% savings in capacity planning efforts (based on HP estimates)
• Key Take-Away : By optimizing utilization continuously, you can save valuable real estate, avoid costly expansion projects and extend the life of your data centre

Benefits:

• Accelerate time to production by quickly repurposing test and development infrastructure
• Up to 30% increase in productivity for provisioning and change tasks.(based on HP estimates)
• Key Take-Away: By quickly creating servers for development or test environments and retiring or repurposing them as needed, you can significantly reduce the number of idle resources, and accelerate the time the time it takes to develop software and set up and conduct testing.

High system availability is now an imperative for an increasing number of applications. If your business depends on certain applications, it can't tolerate downtime for those applications. Yet in many cases the use of high availability (HA) failover is restricted to a limited number of business-critical applications in complex, clustered configurations.

Benefits:

• Higher quality of service with lower risk
• Fast and affordable HA for non-mission-critical applications
• Shorter maintenance windows resulting in higher application up-time
• Key Take-Away: You can now protect more of your systems and shrink maintenance windows using spare capacity that is fast and affordable to set up, using existing virtual machines or physical servers.

Power, cooling and space are top expenses and limitations in today's data centres. Energy not only costs more, but data centres are using more of it. It's no surprise then that energy expenditures are taking an ever larger bite out of operating expenditure (OPEX) budgets. And, regardless of the cost issues, some data centres are having trouble acquiring sufficient power to meet their energy needs. In this new era, power and cooling becomes a key consideration when planning an IT environment or adding hardware to an existing data centre.

Benefits:

• Reduced energy consumption and cost
• Analyze power needs more efficiently
• By quickly identifying and consolidating inefficient servers onto fewer, more power efficient ones, you can reduce energy consumption, cut costs and extend the life of your data centre.
• Key Take-Away: Power consumption analysis and planning saves on operating expenses.

HP will replace defective delivery media replacement for a period of 90 days following the date of purchase.

HP offers a number of software support services, many of which are provided to customers at no additional charge.

Software Technical Support and Update Service
The HP Insight Dynamics - VSE includes one year of 24 x 7 HP Software Technical Support and Update Service. This service provides access to HP technical resources for assistance in resolving software implementation or operations problems. The service also provides access to software updates and reference manuals either in electronic form or on physical media as they are made available from HP. (Customers who purchase an electronic license to use are eligible for electronic updates only.) With this service, HP Insight Dynamics - VSE customers will benefit from expedited problem resolution as well as proactive notification and delivery of software updates. For more information about this service, see: http://www.hp.com/services/insight.

Installation & Startup Service
HP Insight Dynamics - VSE Suite for HP ProLiant is not considered to be "customer installable/configurable". Installation and Start-up services are required for each Central Management Server (CMS) where HP Insight Dynamics - VSE will be deployed. Installation and Start-up Services are offered by HP Services and Authorized Business Partners.

Online Support Resources
HP Service Essentials incorporates industry-leading service tools that notify you when a significant system even has occurred or may potentially occur. You can configure and customize alert notification status for key hardware components including HP ProLiant servers. Integration of the Service Essentials Remote Support Pack with HP SIM brings you a comprehensive "phone home to HP" capability. For more information, please visit: http://www.hp.com/go/serviceessentials.

Registration for Software Technical Support and Update Service
If the license information you received for your product instructs you to register for Software Technical Support and Update Service, please follow the instructions so that you will be eligible for telephone support and product updates.

How to Use Your Software Technical Support and Update Service
Once registered, you will receive a service contract in the mail containing the Customer Service phone number and your Service Agreement Identifier (SAID). You will need your SAID, when calling for technical support. Using your SAID, you can also go to the Software Update Manager (SUM) web page to view your contract online and elect electronic delivery for your updates.

Software and Drivers Download Pages
For selection of your country or region for localized technical support information please visit: http://www.hp.com/support Selecting "Servers" provides latest software and drivers for your HP ProLiant products.

Join the Discussion (http://www.itrc.hp.com)
The HP Support Forum is a community-based, user supported tool for HP customers to participate in discussions amongst the customer community about HP products. For discussions related to Insight Control and HP ProLiant Essentials software, see the "Management Software and System Tools" area.

Management Security (http://www.hp.com/servers/manage/security)
HP is proactive in its approach to the quality and security of all its management software. Be sure to check the website often for the latest down-loadable security updates.

Obtain the Latest SmartStart Release (http://www.hp.com/servers/smartstart)
The SmartStart, Management, and Firmware CD/DVD's are now freely available for download following a simple registration from the SmartStart web site. If you wish to receive physical kits with each release you can order single release kits from the SmartStart web site. To receive proactive notification when SmartStart releases are available, subscribe to Subscriber's Choice at: http://www.hp.com/go/subscriberschoice.

HP Worldwide Customer Service contact numbers are available at:
http://www.hp.com/country/us/en/wwcontact.html.

• VMware ESX Server
  • ESX Server 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.0.2 U1and 3.5 U1 for HP ProLiant ML/DL Servers and BladeSystems
  • Virtual Centre 2.0.1, 2.0.2,2.0.2 U1 and 2.5 U1 for HP ProLiant ML/DL Servers and BladeSystems
  • For Logical Server Management, ESX Server v3.0.2 or higher for HP ProLiant ML/DL Servers and BladeSystems
• Microsoft Virtual Server for HP ProLiant ML/DL Servers and BladeSystems
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2003 OS /MS Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1
  • No Logical Server Management support

• HP ProLiant DL/ML rackmount and tower server series 300, 500 and 700
  • Microsoft Windows 2003 R2 Standard SP2
  • Microsoft Windows 2003 R2 Standard SP2 (x64) - 32 bit mode
  • Microsoft Windows 2003 R2 Enterprise SP2
  • Microsoft Windows 2003 R2 Enterprise SP2 (x64) - 32 bit mode
  • Microsoft Windows 2003 Standard SP2
  • Microsoft Windows 2003 Standard SP2 (x64) - 32 bit mode
  • Microsoft Windows 2003 Enterprise SP2
  • Microsoft Windows 2003 Enterprise SP2 (x64) - 32 bit mode
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Standard
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Standard (x64) - 32 bit mode
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Enterprise
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Enterprise (x64) - 32 bit mode
• HP ProLiant c-Class BladeSystems
  • Microsoft Windows 2003 R2 Standard SP2
  • Microsoft Windows 2003 R2 Standard SP2 (x64) - 32 bit mode
  • Microsoft Windows 2003 R2 Enterprise SP2
  • Microsoft Windows 2003 R2 Enterprise SP2 (x64) - 32 bit mode
  • Microsoft Windows 2003 Standard SP2
  • Microsoft Windows 2003 Standard SP2 (x64) - 32 bit mode
  • Microsoft Windows 2003 Enterprise SP2
  • Microsoft Windows 2003 Enterprise SP2 (x64) - 32 bit mode
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Standard
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Standard (x64) - 32 bit mode
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Enterprise
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Enterprise (x64) - 32 bit mode

• Hardware
  • HP ProLiant DL/ML rack-mount and tower server series 300, 500 and 700, G3 or higher recommended
  • HP ProLiant c-Class BladeSystems
• Operating Systems
  • Microsoft Windows 2003 Standard SP2
  • Microsoft Windows 2003 R2 Standard SP2
  • Windows 2003 Enterprise SP2
  • Microsoft Windows 2003 R2 Enterprise SP2
• Virtualization Platforms
  • ESX Server 3.0.1, 3.0.2, or 3.0.2 U1 guest running supported Windows operating system
• HP SIM 5.2.1
• Servers with at least 2 cores, min processor speed 1.6 GHz (2GHz recommended)
• At least 4 GB of memory (up to 6GB if reaching max nodes of 500)
• 900 MB of free disk space or more to install HP SIM
• 800 MB of free disk space to install HP Insight Dynamics - VSE management software
• Capacity Advisor requires a maximum of 4 GB of disk space for every 100 workloads to maintain 4 years of historical data.
• At least 6GB of paging and swap space
• Supported browsers:
  • IE6 SP2 or IE7
  • FireFox 1.5 or 2.0
    NOTE: FireFox is not supported for SMP Universal migrations

HP Systems Insight Manager Windows Central Management Server can manage the following supported platforms:

• HP ProLiant ML/DL
• HP ProLiant Blades
• HP Integrity Servers
• HP Integrity Blades

NOTE: A Windows-based SIM CMS on HP ProLiant is required to support all of the functionality for HP Insight Dynamics - VSE. It is also capable of managing all of the HP Virtual Server Environment for Integrity.
NOTE: While operating a CMS in a VM is a supported configuration, for best performance, HP highly recommends using dedicated hardware for the CMS.
NOTE: SMP Universal Edition has requirements for specific generations of supported destination servers. Please refer to the Server Migration Pack Universal Edition Support Matrix for specific information.
NOTE: VCEM and Logical Server Management (LSM) are only supported on a Microsoft Windows CMS.
NOTE: A separate HP-UX Integrity CMS can manage Integrity BladeSystems and Servers (No VCEM, LSM support).
NOTE: Insight Dynamics - VSE functionality is delivered for HP Integrity servers and blades through the HP Virtual Server Environment Suite.

• Software
  • Insight Control Environment V2.30 or higher
  • Insight Control Environment for BladeSystems V2.30 or higher
• Hardware

The following infrastructure elements are required to enable logical server management capabilities on physical (bare metal) blade servers:

• Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager (VCEM) v.1.1
• Virtual Connect on BladeSystem (VC-Ethernet or VC-Fibre Channel)
• c7000 or c3000 enclosure(s)
• Storage Area Network (boot from SAN)
  • HP MSA 1000, 1500 and 2000
  • HP EVA 3000,4000,5000,6000 and 8000

Options:

• NIC Options - c-Class embedded GbE adapters and mezzanine cards
• HBA Options - c-Class mezzanine FC HBAs (QLogic and Emulex)

Hewlett-Packard offers end-of-life HP product return, trade-in, and recycling programs in many geographic areas. For trade-in information, please go to http://www.hp.com/go/green. To recycle your product, please go to: http://www.hp.com/go/green or contact your nearest HP sales office. Products returned to HP will be recycled, recovered or disposed of in a responsible manner.

The EU WEEE directive (2002/95/EC) requires manufacturers to provide treatment information for each product type for use by treatment facilities. This information (product disassembly instructions) is posted on the Hewlett Packard web site at: http://www.hp.com/go/green. These instructions may be used by recyclers and other WEEE treatment facilities as well as HP OEM customers who integrate and re-sell HP equipment.

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