Transform your data center into best run server infrastructure with HP Insight Control suite - time-smart management software that delivers deep insight, precise control, and ongoing optimization for your ProLiant infrastructure. With the Insight Control suite, you can expect to realize the following management benefits:

• Enhanced infrastructure stability and reduced incidence of unplanned downtime
• Reduced time and cost associated with infrastructure roll-out, change, and update
• Optimized utilization of data center power and cooling facilities
• Efficient use of scarce IT talent.

Insight Control suite for Microsoft System Center (ICE-SC) is the first extensive solution that provides seamless integration of the unique ProLiant and BladeSystem manageability features into the Microsoft System Center consoles. With ICE for System Center you can significantly reduce remediation time when problems arise and maximize server uptime by enabling administrators to proactively manage virtual machine workloads based on pre-failure conditions in underlying host systems. Tight integration with System Center Configuration Manager optimizes administrator time spent on common maintenance tasks by automating deployment and updating of ProLiant and BladeSystem servers. Backed by HP service and support, ICE-SC delivers the best hardware management experience for customers who have standardized on a Microsoft System Center management platform.

Delivered as a single download, the Insight Control suite uses an integrated installer to deploy and configure core management packs for the Microsoft System Center environment and essential infrastructure management software rapidly and consistently, reducing manual installation procedures and speeding time to production. These solutions deliver complete lifecycle management for HP ProLiant and BladeSystem infrastructure. HP Insight Control suite for Microsoft System Center brings a single, consistent user experience for rapid deployment of the operating system and hardware configuration. In addition, Insight Control suite provides health and performance monitoring, power management, performance analysis, lights-out remote control management, and virtual machine management for the HP ProLiant ML/DL 300-700 series servers and BladeSystem infrastructure.

HP Insight Control suite for Microsoft System Center includes one year of 24 x 7 HP Software Technical Support and Update Service ensuring rapid access to HP support staff and proactive delivery of software updates. For more information about this service, please visit: http://www.hp.com/services/insight.

A license entitlement certificate is delivered in place of a license activation key. The license entitlement certificate is delivered via physical shipment for existing product numbers (with the exception of tracking licenses) and via e-mail for the new electronic license product numbers. The license entitlement certificate contains information needed to redeem license activation key(s) online or via fax. This new electronic redemption process allows for easier license management and better service and support tracking. For more information, please visit: http://www.hp.com/go/ICe-license.

At A Glance

Insight Control suite for Microsoft System Center includes several management packs and essential infrastructure management modules, including:

• HP ProLiant Server OS Deployment for Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007
• HP ProLiant PRO Management Pack for Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008
• HP Server Updates Catalog for Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager
• HP ProLiant Server and BladeSystem Management Packs for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007
• HP ProLiant Hardware Inventory Tool for Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007
• HP Systems Insight Manager software
• HP iLO Advanced (in the case of standalone ICE-SC licenses)
• HP Insight Power Manager software
• HP Insight Performance Manager module
• HP Insight Virtual Machine Manager software

With the purchase of ICE-SC, including upgrades from iLO Advanced to ICE-SC, 1 year of 24x7 Technical Support and Updates (TS&U) is included unless it is a tracking license, based on an Activation Key Agreement signed before July 2007 specifically excluding 1 year of TS&U.

When ordering ICE-SC, customers will receive a printed license entitlement certificate via physical shipment. The license entitlement certificate must be redeemed online or via fax in order to obtain the license activation key(s).

HP Insight Control suite for Microsoft System Center, No Media, 1-Server License including 1 year of 24x7 Technical Support and Updates

HP iLO Advanced upgrade to Insight Control suite for Microsoft System Center, No Media, 1-Server License including one year of 24x7 support
NOTE: For use in environments where iLO Advanced Pack is already installed and licensed.
NOTE: The HP iLO Advanced Upgrade License supports HP ProLiant ML/DL 300, 500 and 700 series servers and BladeSystem infrastructure.

Delivered as a single download for simplified installation and licensing. HP Insight Control suite for Microsoft System Center contains core integration packs for the System Center environment, HP SIM and key essentials management software that provide total control, maximum flexibility and tangible savings from your investment in HP ProLiant and HP BladeSystem infrastructure.

HP Insight Control suite for Microsoft System Center includes a single activation key for licensing Insight Performance Manager module, Insight Power Manager software and Insight Virtual Machine Manager software. A separate license key is provided for iLO Advanced.

The integrated installers provide a streamlined, automated process to deploy and configure the integration packs for the Microsoft System Center environment, HP SIM and essential management software more consistently and rapidly, with less manual intervention.

The HP Insight Software Advisor (formerly named HP Insight Control Management Advisor) also checks to ensure that the host central management server meets all installation pre-requites prior to initiating the installation process. Once the installation has completed, use the Insight Software Update Utility to check for available software updates.

HP Insight Control suite for Microsoft System Center delivers a unified and secure plug-in to centrally manage ProLiant and BladeSystem servers within the Microsoft System Center environment.

HP SIM provides core management services that include device discovery and identification, event views, health monitoring, inventory data collection, software version control and reporting. HP SIM is built on industry standards and is extensible with value-added essential management software as well as custom application and scripts to meet individual management needs.

HP Insight Control suite for Microsoft System Center, through iLO Advanced, provides comprehensive lights-out remote management capabilities for ProLiant servers, including high-performance virtual KVM for routine and emergency remote administration, remote access to server power control and event logs, virtual media for simple deployment and update of remote servers, and single server power measurement and regulation.

With the latest versions of iLO Advanced, HP now helps distributed IT teams effectively collaborate to solve complex IT problems. The new shared console capability allows up to four team members to view and share control of a single virtual KVM session. In addition "console replay" captures and saves screen video to enable review of failure sequences and easily document complex configuration administrative tasks.

HP Insight Control suite for Microsoft System Center delivers precise power and thermal measurement and reporting for HP ProLiant ML/DL 300 and 500 series and HP ProLiant BladeSystem Infrastructure. ICE includes dynamic power capping and power management alerts for HP ProLiant and BladeSystem infrastructure. These capabilities increase the number of servers that can be deployed per circuit by as much as 36%. Dynamic power capping for single servers allows you to safely reclaim unused power and cooling capacity by limiting power usage without risk or performance degregation or circuit over-subscription. Dynamics power capping for BladeSystem enclosures delivers additional savings by allowing an enclosure level power budget to be dynamically shared across multiple ProLiant BL servers. Power management alerts help you optimize dynamic power capping settings by informing you when power caps have been reach at the server or enclosure level.

The Insight Power Manager function is supported on a select group of ProLiant servers that ship with the iLO2 management processor. For more information on supported server, please reference the Insight Power Manager QuickSpecs at: http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/12623_div/12623_div.html

NOTE: The power management capability will not function for HP ProLiant DL785 G5 servers.

HP Insight Control suite for Microsoft System Center leverages the Insight Performance Manager module (PMP) to detect impending bottleneck conditions on HP ProLiant servers, HP Integrity servers and HP shared storage. PMP provides proactive notification of building bottleneck conditions, and vital information to help debug and remediate existing performance issues.

Performance data is presented through an interactive graphical interface and can also be logged to a database for later analysis or reporting. PMP includes configurable settings to define monitoring frequency and proactive notification through HP Systems Insight Manager.

HP Insight Control suite for Microsoft System Center delivers a complete deployment solution for HP ProLiant servers through HP ProLiant Server OS Deployment. Tuned specifically for the System Center environment, the process includes server hardware configuration, image or script-based installation of OS and applications, and installation of HP ProLiant Support Pack drivers.

With Insight Control suite for Microsoft System Center in place, server deployments become faster, are more consistent, and less prone to human error.

The HP ProLiant Server and BladeSystem Management Packs for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager expose the native management capabilities of HP ProLiant Servers and BladeSystems through Operations Manager.

• Obtain greater visibility of ProLiant servers and BladeSystems utilizing Operations Manager System, State, and Alert views
• Quick root cause analysis with graphical server and blade characterization down to the subsystem level
• Easily manage custom data for HP ProLiant servers with HP's integrated Custom Data Manager

Hewlett-Packard Server Updates Catalog for System Center Configuration Manager 2007 enables the use of Microsoft Systems Center Configuration Manage (SCCM) RTM, SP1, or R2 for management and distribution of HP ProLiant server system software, firmware, and complete support packs.

Utilizing the Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO) feature in Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008, the HP ProLiant PRO Management Pack delivers the ability to guide and automate virtual machine migrations based upon host system hardware alerts.

Included with HP Insight Control suite for Microsoft System Center, the Insight Virtual Machine Manager software (VMM) delivers unified management and control of VMware®, Microsoft®, and Citrix virtual machines. Capabilities include association of virtual machines with their physical hosts in HP SIM; monitoring performance for easy identification of VMs or host servers reaching high CPU, memory or disk utilization levels; moving VMs between host servers, including initiating live moves (on supported platforms; requires VMotion for VMware VMs); and rapid recovery capabilities that enable restoration of VMs on any available host. Additionally, VMM offers the ability to evacuate virtual machines from VMware ESX host servers upon receipt of hardware predictive hardware failure alerts by initiating moves using VMware DRS and VMotion. This reduces downtime by relocating the VMs before the host server fails.

With unified management of physical and virtual resources, systems administrators now have the ability extend existing processes to the management of their virtualized infrastructure while leveraging best in class technology for virtual machine deployment, monitoring, and control.

HP Insight Control suite for Microsoft System Center supports management of all HP ProLiant ML/DL 300, 500 and 700 series servers and BladeSystem infrastructure. HP Insight Control Environment for BladeSystem standalone software will be discontinued on April 30, 2009 (only very limited ordering is possible) and obsolete (no more ordering allowed) on July 31, 2009. Customer can continue to purchase the Insight Control suite for BladeSystem as part of the c-Class enclosure.

There may be minor discrepancies in hardware support between different software components, so customers are encouraged to consult the detailed Insight Control suite Support Matrix or individual QuickSpecs for the products listed in the "Included Products" section for specifics on platform support.

To enable the power management capabilities of HP Insight Control suite for Microsoft System Center, target servers must have an embedded power meter. For a list of systems that support power management, please consult the Insight Control suite Support Matrix at: http://bizsupport.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c00700722/c00700722.pdf

The central management server hardware hosting Insight Control suite for Microsoft System Center must meet the following minimum requirements.

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 Insight Control suite 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. With this service, Insight Control and essential infrastructure management software 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.

After HP processes your support registration, you will receive a Service Agreement Identifier (SAID). In order to receive the software updates that you are entitled to, you must use your SAID and access the Software Update Manager (SUM) at the HP IT Resource Center (ITRC) home page: http://www.itrc.hp.com

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For support questions in the U.S. that are not covered in any of the above services, please call 1-800-HP-INVENT (1-800-474-6836). (When prompted, say "Insight Manager.") HP Worldwide numbers for HP SIM, Insight Control Environment, and essential infrastructure management software are available at: http://www.hp.com/country/us/en/wwcontact.html.

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