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HP Insight Control Environment

 
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Overview

Transform your data center into best run server infrastructure with the Insight Control Environment: time-smart management software that delivers total control, maximum flexibility, and tangible savings for your ProLiant and BladeSystem infrastructure.

Based on HP Systems Insight Manager and ProLiant Essentials software, the Insight Control suites deliver comprehensive system health, remote control, vulnerability scanning and patch management as well as flexible deployment, virtual machine management, and power management in one easy to install package. HP Insight Control Environment provides comprehensive management for ProLiant ML/DL customers, while HP Insight Control Environment for BladeSystem provides delivers the same for HP BladeSystem environments.



What's new

Insight Control is a critical building block for deploying Insight Dynamics - VSE, allowing you to deploy, monitor and control your server infrastructure from almost anywhere. With the latest release of the HP Insight Control management suite, HP delivers updated versions of Rapid Deployment Pack (RDP), Virtual Machine Management (VMM) are available to optimize deployment, virtualization, and migration requirements, allowing you to better control time and your infrastructure. In addition, updated deployment support including Windows Server 2008, VMware ESXi, Citrix XenServer and new Linux Red Hat versions.
  • Virtual Machine Manager, System Insight Manager support of VMware ESXi and Citrix XenServer
  • RDP deployment support including Windows Server 2008, Linux Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 and AS/ES 4.6, VMware ESX server 3.0.2 and 3.5.0

Ideal environment

Ideal for...

Enterprise datacenters that depend on ProLiant and BladeSystem infrastructure
  • Monitor and control your entire ProLiant and BladeSystem infrastructure from a centralized HP Systems Insight Manager console.
  • Implement rapid, repeatable deployment processes through flexible image and script-based deployment mechanisms.
  • Efficiently manage the growing energy impact of your server infrastructure with power measurement and power capping.
  • Unified management of physical and virtual infrastructure for both VMware and Microsoft virtualization platforms (Insight Control Environment for BladeSystem only)
Technical savvy small and medium businesses
  • Wizard-driven integrated installer enables rapid installation and configuration of HP management tools - guided installation reduces the need for extensive IT expertise.
  • Monitoring, remote control, deployment, vulnerability scanning and patch management in a single easy-to-use package.
  • Scalable to meet growing needs: comprehensive unified management small groups of servers or distributed data centers.

Model comparison

Technical Specifications Insight Control Environment Insight Control Environment for BladeSystem
Server health and performance monitoring Yes Yes
Server asset, warranty, and service contract reporting Yes Yes
BIOS, driver, and agent update Yes Yes
Remote control including virtual KVM and virtual media Yes Yes
Rapid image or script-based server deployment Yes Yes
Server vulnerability scanning and patch update Yes Yes
Power measurement, capping and regulation Yes Yes
Unified virtual and physical server management Yes Yes
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