HP Insight Dynamics for ProLiant v6.0

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%.

• Automated application provisioning through integration with HP Server Automation
• Significant availability and cost savings through P2V disaster recovery
• Inclusion of infrastructure orchestration and recovery management with Insight Dynamics Advanced consolidation planning reports
• Electronic Software Delivery (eSD) for a faster, easier, more efficient and environmentally friendly way to fulfill your software order

Ideal for...

Capacity planning

• Capacity planning component enables detailed server capacity and power planning
• Smart Solver technology collects and analyzes historical data across thousands of variables on virtual and physical resources
• 5-Star ratings makes it easy to identify best fit candidates for workloads
• Automatically generated plans for consolidation and load balancing
• Estimation of the power consumption of different configurations
• Support for HP ProLiant, BladeSystem and Integrity servers

Configuration management 

• Virtualization management visualizes physical and virtual infrastructure for HP ProLiant, BladeSystem and Integrity servers
• Logical server management – which allows you 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 

Visually design infrastructure services

• Visual drag-and-drop design tool makes it easy for an infrastructure or application architect to configure required infrastructure components
• Captures requirements for servers, storage, and networking into a template. Templates can include multiple servers, which can be a mix of physical and virtual.
• Templates can be saved as "best practices" and published to a library
• Templates are automatically validated by the design tool to assure the template is viable

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. Users can view status and progress of their requests.
• Lease periods allow requestors to specify a time at which resources can be returned back to the resource pools.
• Support HP ProLiant and Integrity server blades for physical server provisioning and VMware ESX and Microsoft Hyper-V hosts for virtual server provisioning.

Integrate and automate with workflow automation

• Powered by HP Operations Orchestration software, a proven workflow automation tool.
• Enables integration with existing management processes and tools such as trouble ticket systems through a library of available connectors.
• Create custom workflows with visual designer to automate pre- and post-provisioning tasks.

Extend Insight Dynamics with HP Software solutions

• Integrates with 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 logical server environments.
• Simple GUI-based configuration tools allows easy creation of recovery profile based on primary profile information
• Coordination of system resources along with storage resources insures coordinated recovery actions
• Recovery initiated at remote location with a single action, resulting in remote location becoming fully active
• 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

• Taking advantage of logical servers can recover both physical server environments as well as virtual environments enabled by key virtualization technologies
• Support VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V environments
• Supports HP ProLiant server blades for physical and VM failover, and HP ProLiant ML and DL servers for VM failover.

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 while helping to eliminate or minimize any data loss
• 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 not supported on HP Integrity servers nor on non-HP servers. It is only supported on HP ProLiant servers and server