HP Insight Dynamics for ProLiant v6.3

HP Insight Dynamics is advanced infrastructure management software that helps you to provision infrastructure in minutes, optimize infrastructure confidently, and protect continuity of services. It is a single toolkit to accelerate complex IT projects, simplify daily operations, and manage data center capacity and power proactively.

HP Insight Dynamics builds on HP Insight Control, delivering a powerful and single integrated by-design toolkit to accelerate complex IT projects and simplify daily operations. By continuously analyzing and optimizing an adaptive infrastructure, Insight Dynamics can reduce the cost of common data center tasks up to 40%.

For version 6.3:

With the release of version 6.3 of Insight Dynamics, HP continues to make is easier to gain the benefits of a private cloud today.

• Feature: Support for 3PAR FC for Storage Provisioning Manager (in addition to XP & EVA).
• Benefit: Expanded support of storage pool management and easier to manage storage pools.
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• Feature: 4X increase in scalability for service-catalog-based auto-provisioning in 'federated mode'.
• Benefit: With ever increasing virtual machine density and the need to manage more-and-more template-based workloads from a single-pane of glass, Insight Dynamics offers you the ability to orchestrate up to 6000 VMs using a 'federated CMS' environment (Central Management Server). Aggregated management results in more money saved, and greater efficiency.
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• Feature: Increased multi-tenancy and chargeback including user-group support and location code.
• Benefit: Capacity planning and chargeback-ready tools now include the ability to sort by location or group so that chargeback tracking – or even links extended to billing – allows for better segmentation and control of multiple "tenants" within a cloud environment making tracking and chargeback more straight-forward with direct attribution to the actual users.
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• Feature: New Cloud Maps. (details at www.hp.com/go/cloudmaps)
• Benefit: Accelerates automation of business applications so you can reliably and consistently fast track the implementation of service catalogs. Saves days or weeks of time architecting infrastructure and ensures that every time you implement an environment, it's consistent.
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• Feature: HP Utility Ready Computing - Pay per use acquisition model for Matrix.
• Benefit: Server capacity that never runs out, priced as you use it and easy to procure.

Ideal for...

Capacity planning

• Collects and analyzes historical data across variables on virtual and physical resources
• 5-Star ratings make it easy to identify best fit candidates for workloads
• Automatically generates plans for consolidation and load balancing including power

Configuration management 

• Visualizes the physical and virtual infrastructure for HP ProLiant, BladeSystem and Integrity servers
• Manages physical and virtual servers in the same way

Infrastructure orchestration 

Visually design infrastructure services

• Visual drag-and-drop design tool makes it easy for an architect to configure required infrastructure components
• Captures requirements for servers, storage, and networking into a template which can include multiple servers and be physical and virtual.
• Templates can be saved as "best practices" and published to a library

Automated provisioning through self-service portal

• Using the web-based self-service portal, users such as application teams can request infrastructure services from a template library based on their user role.
• After approval, the requested infrastructure service will be automatically provisioned from an available pool of resources.
• Resource Lease periods allow requestors to specify a time at which resources can be returned back to the resource pools.

Integrate and automate with workflow automation

• Enables integration with existing management processes and tools such as trouble ticket systems through a library of available connectors.
• Creates custom workflows with visual designer to automate pre- and post-provisioning tasks.

Extend Insight Dynamics with HP Software solutions

• Integrates with the latest HP Server Automation software for more comprehensive server lifecycle management, including patch and compliance management, application provisioning, and HP and 3rd-party server OS provisioning  

Recovery management  

Provides disaster recovery with the push of a button

• Automates disaster recovery of server and virtual machine environments.
• Simple GUI-based configuration tools allows easy creation of recovery profile based on primary profile information
• Site "role-reversal" allows for remote site to now become the primary site, and allows the ability to set up failover scenarios back to original site, when availability exists again

Protects both physical and virtual server environments

• Supports VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V environments
• Cost savings through physical to virtual recovery management for VMware (P2V and V2P)

Utilizes established data replication technologies for long-distance recovery

• Integrates with and utilizes established data replication technologies to ensure remote failover of application and system data.
• Supports HP EVA Continuous Access across the full spectrum of EVA storage array solutions for metropolitan distance recovery
• Supports HP XP Continuous Access across the full spectrum of XP storage array solutions for both metropolitan and as continental distance recovery

Important: HP Insight Dynamics recovery management is only supported on HP ProLiant servers.  

	Provision infrastructure in minutes

• Reduces costs of common data center tasks up to 40% (costs associated with capacity planning, provisioning, upgrades and changes as well as energy)

Provision Consistently

• Provision infrastructure consistently and automatically from pools of shared resources using standardized templates and a self-service portal (infrastructure orchestration)

Save time 

• Reduced application deployment time by 50%

	Optimize with confidence

• Reduces complexity by managing physical & virtual resources in the same way from the same console for ProLiant, Integrity, non-HP, and multi-OS

Reduce power needs 

• Real time energy-aware capacity planning for continuous analysis and optimal workload placement

Plan capacity 

• Most advanced real-time capacity planning tool – it can collect and analyze more than a thousand data points per server per day (physical and virtual resources)

Find best fit placements 

• Smart Solver technology finds best fit placement for workloads

See your head room capacity 

• 5-star rating system shows head-room capacity for optimal fit

	Protect continuity of services

• On-demand movement of server profiles from one physical blade to another, bringing the flexibility of virtualization to physical servers

High-availability 

• Extend HA to more servers and applications for fast and affordable recovery and maintenance

Tight integration 

• Tight integration between management, partitioning and HA

Application protection 

• Protects and recovers critical application environments (recovery management)