HP Insight Management Software

HP TechCircle Proaktives Server 

Management 

Sascha Neff 

Server Technology Consultant 

Server System Management Ambassador 

sascha.neff@hp.com 

Massimo Sallustio 

Senior Server Technology Consultant 

Swiss Server Blade Ambassador 

massimo.sallustio@hp.com 

© Copyright 2012 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. 

The information contained herein is subject to change without notice.

Agenda 

• Insight Management Overview 

• HP Firmware Management 

• Service Pack for ProLiant 

• HPSUM & FW Management Demo 

• HPSIM and Version Control 

• HP iLO4 Management Engine 



Admin 

Efficiency 

Hardware 

Events 

Reporting 

HP Systems Insight Manager 

Free System Management 

Free Integration Packages for: 

Blade 

Viewer 

Firmware 


Remote 

Support 

HP Operations 

HP Network Node Manager 

MS System Center 

IBM Tivoli 

CA Unicenter 

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Server 

Deployment 

Performance 


HP Insight Control Environment 

Licensed Additional Management Features 

Admin 

Efficiency 

Hardware 

Events 

Reporting 



Server 

Migration 

Virtualization 

Managment 


Blade 

Viewer 

Firmware 


Remote 

Support 




IBM Tivoli 

CA Unicenter 

Remote 

Control 

Power and 

Cooling 

Integration into vCenter, SCOM, SCCM, SCVMM 

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HP Matrix Operating Environment 

Licensed Automation Features 

Insight 

Orchestration 

Server 

Deployment 

Hardware 

Events 

Performance 


HP Insight Control Environment 

Licensed Additional Management Features 


Admin 

Efficiency 

Reporting 


Server 

Migration 

Virtualization 

Managment 


Capacitiy 

Advisor 

Blade 

Viewer 

Remote 

Control 

Firmware 


Remote 

Support 

Power and 

Cooling 




IBM Tivoli 

CA Unicenter 

Integration into vCenter, SCOM, SCCM, SCVMM 

Insight 

Recovery 

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Licensing 

HP Insight Control Environment (incl. iLO Advanced) 

HP Insight Control for ProLiant and Blade Servers SFr. 565.- 

Including 1yr 24x7 Technical Support and Updates Electronic License T9074BAE 

HP Insight Control bundled with ProLiant ML/DL/BL SFr. 470.- 

Including 1yr 24x7 Technical Support and Updates Electronic License TC278AAE 

iLO Advanced License 

HP iLO Advanced for ProLiant ML/DL and Blade Servers SFr. 410.- 

Including 1yr 24x7 Technical Support and Updates Electronic License TA850AAE 

HP iLO Advanced for Blade Servers SFr. 305.- 

Including 1yr 24x7 Technical Support and Updates Electronic License TA851AAE 

HP Matrix Operating Environment 

HP Matrix Operating Environment for ProLiant IC incl. 1yr 24x7 Support SFr. 2’700.- 

Including 1yr 24x7 Technical Support and Updates Electronic License TC222A 

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Insight Control for Dummies 

The premier HP ProLiant essential server management guide 

• An easy-to-read overview of the HP Insight 

Control product & its capabilities and benefits. 

• Includes a couple cartoons for light humor! 

Download the e-book from 

www.hp.com/go/ic4dummies 

-OR- 

Visit the Insight Control website at 

www.hp.com/go/insightcontrol 

Don’t delay – 

Get Insight Control for Dummies today! 

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HP Systems 

Insight Manager 7 



HP Insight End-to-End Infrastructure Management 

iLO Management 

Engine 

Insight Control 

Insight Online 

On Board On Premise Online 

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HPSIM 7.1 

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HP Insight Remote 

Support 7 

and Insight Online 



HP Insight Online 

Monitor, manage & support your IT infrastructure online via HP Support Center 

Personalized 

dashboard 

Manage & 

organize devices 

Manage 

HP support 

Remote Support 

Monitor device 

health, events & 

support status and 

easily navigate to 

details* 

Organize devices for 

easier management 

and share with other 

IT admins 

Proactively manage 

contracts & warranty 

and check service 

credit balance 

Monitor autogenerated 

hardware 

events and support 

cases online* 

New capability integrated into HP Support Center and Insight Remote Support 

www.hp.com/go/insightonline *HP Insight Online + Insight Remote Support 7.x 

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Contract & Warranty 

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HP Insight Control 7 

Essential infrastructure management 

for Gen8 servers 



Intelligent Power Components 

Power data communication in power supply, iPDU and power cable 

94% Label 

PLC Connectors 



Location Discovery Services 

Optimize workload placement with servers that self-identify and inventory 

• No manual, inaccurate and tedious asset collection 

• Server learns from rack the rack id and server U 

location 

• HP iLO collects and passes this data on to Insight 

Control to auto populate a server location screen 

~100% 

Manual, error prone 

inventory tracking 

eliminated 

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HP Insight Control for Automated Energy Optimization 

Display and act on thermal, location, workload and power information 

Show and control 

• System, rack, row temperature 

• System location and space use 

• Power use, capacity, settings 

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Power and Thermal Reporting 



Enhanced power/thermal reporting 



Goal-oriented response to power/cooling events 

using Data Center Power Control 

• Reduce power consumption 

due to power/cooling and 

disaster recovery events to 

a specified goal 

• Conditionally stop rule 

execution if the expected 

power consumption goal 

has been achieved 

• Rule summary provided to 

state when power 

consumption goal has been 

met 



Insight Control VMM 

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Insight Control PMP 

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HP Service Pack 

for ProLiant (SPP) 



Transition timeline to SPP and HPSUM 

1H2011 2H2011 1H2012 2H2012 

Insight Foundation 

(PSP, Firmware DVD, BladeSystem Release Sets) 

Development 

complete 

Remains available for 

download 

Service Pack for ProLiant 

(Inc. HP SUM 5) 

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Consolidated Release Process 

1 st Release 2 nd Release 

3 rd Release 

1 Year Release Cicle 

Firmware release sets are released approximately every 3-4 

months and tested for a minimum of 6 weeks. 





3 rd Release 


Updates/bug fixes 


Bug fixes and updates might be released between release sets 

to resolve issues reported by customers. 




Updates/bug fixes collected into maintenance 

releases, updates & new server releases 


3 rd Release 




Grouped together and… 






1 st Release w/updates 2 nd Release w/updates 

3 rd Release w/updates 




Tested for a minimum of 3 weeks against the current and two 

previous release sets. 






Critical Exception 

1 st Release w/updates 2 nd Release w/updates 

3 rd Release w/updates 




Unless the critical update affects your environment, wait until HP completes 

testing the critical fixes before using these updates as part of a baseline. 



HP Firmware Management 

with SPP, HPSUM and 

Insight Software 



FW and Driver Deployment Overview 

GUI 

CLI 

HPSUM - HP Systems Update Manager 

SPP - Service Pack for ProLiant 

Firmware Management 

iLO4 – Intelligent Provisioning 

Server Infrastructure 

VCRM - Version Control Repository Manager 

HP Systems Insight Manager with Version Control 

HP Insight Control – MS SCCM and VMWare vCenter Integration 

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HP Service Pack for Proliant 

Confidently implement the fully tested and consolidated firmware and software 

Bootable ISO File 

Non-Bootable 

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The information contained herein is subject to change without notice. 

SPP Download page: www.hp.com/go/spp/

HP SPP – Best Practices and Video Library 

www.hp.com/go/spp 

http://www.hp.com/go/CoffeeCoaching 

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HPSUM Guides and Best Practices Guides 



http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/service_packs/documentation/index.html

Other updates to the Web-Experience 

Server Support Guide 

This handy document lists all of the components included in the SPP and the 

servers that they are supported on. 

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www.hp.com/go/spp/download

Other updates to the Web-Experience 

SPP Content Report 

This report lists the following 

information for all of the 

components included in the SPP: 

• Description 

• or Product Name 

• Version 

• Filename 

Note: This document is also found 

on the root of the SPP ISO/DVD as 

contents.html 

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www.hp.com/go/spp/download


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HP Smart Update Manager (HPSUM) Capabilities 

Firmware and software updates with dramatically reduced downtime 

• Agentless remote deployment 

• Intuitive Graphical User Interface (GUI) 

• Extensive CLI 

• Multiple, shareable baseline repositories 

• Pulls updates from web 

• Schedule & deploy updates, aligning with 

service windows 

• Interdependency checking 

− Within system (FW and SW) 

− Between systems and enclosures 

• Automatically deploys updates in the 

right sequence 

• Comprehensive compliance-oriented reporting 

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Virtual Connect 1 Virtual Connect 2 

iLO 2 

iLO 4 

iLO 3 

FW Management - Offline 

Offline Firmware Upgrade 

Baremetal G6 

Blade Server 

• Use Boot ISO on USB Stick together with OA 

• Use Boot ISO with iLO 

• Gen8, use Intelligent Provisioning 

• Use HPSUM Remote (only OA and VC) 

Upgrade 

Onboard Admin. 

Upgrade 

Virtual Connect 

Baremetal G7 

Blade Server 

Upgrade 

Baremetal Blade 

Baremetal Gen8 

Blade Server 

Boot ISO File 

Repository 

SPP/PSP 

Onboard Admin. 1 Onboard Admin. 2 

Blade Enclosure 

HPSUM 5 

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Without an OS, the order is blade infrastructure (OA, VC, etc.), then blades (offline)


iLO 

iLO 

iLO 

FW Management - Online 

Online FW & Driver Upgrade 

Windows 

Blade Server 

Dependency Check for: 

• OA, VC and iLO FW 

• Firmware to Drivers 

• Health Component Requirements 

• Operating System Libraries 

Linux 

Blade Server 

ESX 

Blade Server 

Windows Remote Server 

Repository 

SPP/PSP 



Dependency Check 


Standalone 

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LIVE DEMO… 



HPSUM Failed Dependencies 

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HPSUM Reporting Engine 

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HPSUM CLI 

HPSUM 5.2 User Guide 

http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/service_packs/documentation/index.html 

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HPSUM for Linux 

HPSUM Linux Whitepaper 

http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/service_packs/documentation/index.html 

http://downloads.linux.hp.com/SDR 

Using HP SUM as an RPM package 

In addition to getting the HP SUM deliverable 

from the /hp/swpackages directory on the SPP, 

you can also find hpsum-*.rpm in native RPM 

format on the SDR. There is a version of the 

hpsum-*.rpm for each supported OS and 

architecture type. 

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HPSUM Security 

Whitepaper: http://h20564.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay/docId=emr_na-c03345481 

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FW Update for Blades 

through… 

…Onboard Administrator 




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LIVE DEMO… 



Enclosure Firmware 

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The new HPSIM Version 

Control… 

…without VCA 




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iLO 

iLO 

iLO 4 

FW Management with HPSIM 


Version Control Baseline through HPSIM 7 

Windows 

Blade Server 

VCA 

Linux 

Blade Server 

VCA 


Only FW via 

iLO Embedded Intelligent Smart Provisioning 

Start 




HPSIM 7 

VCRM 

Repository 

SPP/PSP 


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LIVE DEMO… 



Select your Version Control Repository 

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Select the Managed Server Software Baseline 

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Update to Baseline 

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Update to Baseline 

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Create your own Baseline… 

…Tips and Tricks 



VCRM Custom Baseline 

Scan a sample server with HPSUM and copy the desired packages to a folder. 

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• For ease of use, install a 

separate VCRM Server in a VM. 

• Copy the packages needed for 

the baseline into a separate 

folder. 

• Point VCRM to the folder with 

your packages. 

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• Create a custom software 

baseline 

• Check your packages 

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• VCRM generates automatically 

the required description files 

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• Copy the folder with your 

baseline to your main VCRM 

server 

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The new HPSIM Version 

Control… 

…with VCA 




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iLO 

iLO 

iLO 4 

FW Management with HPSIM and VCA installed 


Version Control Agent installed 

Windows 

Blade Server 

VCA 

Linux 

Blade Server 

VCA 


Only FW via 

iLO Embedded Intelligent Smart Provisioning 

Start 




HPSIM 7 

VCRM 

Repository 

SPP/PSP 


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What you get without VCA 

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What you get with VCA in addition 

• Get detailed package and 

revision history informations 

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Disadvantage with VCA Agent intalled 

• You should not point the VCA to 

another VCRM than the 

referenced VCRM on HPSIM 

• If the HPSIM admin is changing the VCRM reference server, it will not automatically be 

reflected on the VCA! 

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HPSIM, VCRM and VCA 

HPSIM is referenced to his own VCRM. 

• Machine one VCA points to another VCRM. 

• Machine two VCA points to HPSIM VCRM. 

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VCA User Settings 

• On the Domaincontroller create 

a user, for example, “vcadmin” 

and a group “vcadmins” and 

add the user to the group. 

• On the Version Control Repository 

Server, add the 

“domain\vcadmins” group to the 

local administrators group. 

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Wizard to configure VCA 

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Configure or Repair Agents to configure VCA 

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Manual configure VCA 

• Reference the VCA to the 

VCRM 

• Choose your Baseline 

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Replicate Agent Settings to configure other VCAs 

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Where to go for Driver and 

FW Management 

http://www.hp.com/go/SPP 

http://downloads.linux.hp.com/SDR 

http://vibsdepot.hp.com 



HP Insight Control for 

VMware vCenter Server 



Seamless management for virtual and physical 

environments 

HP Insight Control for 

VMware vCenter Server 

Servers 

Power & cooling 

Single pane of glass from 

VMware vCenter server to 

your HP Converged 

Infrastructure 

HP Insight 

Software 

Storage 

Network 

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What’s new 

• Simplified management enablement with support of new HP ProLiant Gen8 servers 

Agentless Management that delivers health monitoring and configuration data without 

the need for loading Insight Control agents or CIM providers on the VMware hosts 

• Enhanced bare-metal deployment: Deploy ESX/ESXi on our newest HP ProLiant 

Gen8 servers from Vmware vCenter using the HP Insight Control Deployment Wizard 

• Complete refresh of the user interface delivering a amazing new experience for 

managing your physical environment in VMware vCenter: 

− Optimized view of the converged infrastructure health and configuration dashboards 

− Grouping of all the plug-in actions and control capabilities under one button 

− Integration of a News Feed in the main area to deliver updates on health, configuration changes 

and actions results 

• Integrated installer that delivers a simplified process for installing the server and 

storage modules 

• Support for Active Directory accounts with role based security 

• Architectural changes to scale to larger environments 

Subject to changes 

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Architecture overview 

VMware vCenter 

and vSphere 

Client 

HP Insight 

SIM / RDP 

HP Insight Control for VMware vCenter 

vSphere API 

VMware 

ESX or ESXi 

CIM Providers 

SNMP Agents 

ProLiant 

Server 

CPUs 

Memory 

Network 

Storage 

iLO + 

Embedded 

Mgmt 

ProLiant 


Fans 

Power 

Supplies 

Virtual Connect 

Modules 

Onboard 

Administrator 

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LIVE DEMO… 



Demo 

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ESXi Image and Drivers from HP 

Download: 

http://vibsdepot.hp.com/ 

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VMware Update Manager (VUM) Integration 

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HP ProLiant Server and Option Firmware and Driver Support Recipe 

Download: 

http://vibsdepot.hp.com/hpq/recipes/ 

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HP Customized VMware Image Downloads 

Download: 

http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/software/vmware/esxi-image.html 

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HP Customized Image Contents 

Download: 

http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/software/vmware-esxi/driver_version.html 

HP ESXi 5.0 Management Providers 

bundle - includes the latest HP 

Common Information Model (CIM) 

Providers, HP Integrated Lights-Out 

(iLO) driver, HP Compaq ROM Utility 

(CRU) driver, and the new HP 

Agentless Management Service 

(AMS) 

HP ESXi 5.0 NMI bundle - Non 

Maskable Interrupt (NMI) driver used 

to write VMware® errors to the Insight 

Management Log (IML) 

With the VMware ESXi 5.0 Hypervisor, the vStorage API for Array Integration (VAAI) offers off-loading functions from the 

target VMware host to the storage array. With the tasks being performed more efficiently by the array instead of the target 

VMware host, performance is greatly enhanced. http://h20195.www2.hp.com/v2/GetPDF.aspx/4AA3-5025ENW.pdf 

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HP VIBS Depot Downloads 

Download: 

http://vibsdepot.hp.com/hpq/ 

A file with the VIB file extension is an update, or 

“bulletin,” file for the VMWare ESX virtual server. VIB 

files are installed using the service console on the 

ESX host. You must log into the system as “user 

root," so you must have administrative privileges on 

the virtual server to install VIB updates. VIB updates 

may be bundled together in a ZIP file; the ESX 

update tool uses the bundled ZIP file, in addition to 

the VIB file format, to install the updates. Running 

the ESX Update command automatically installs all 

applicable VIB files and bundled VIB files that are 

found while running the scan. 

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HP Agentless Management Service Offline Bundle 


A service that provides support for Agentless Management and Active Health 

Agentless Management provides 

Integrated Lights Out (iLO) based 

robust management without the 

complexity of OS-based agents. 

Agentless Management Service 

provides a wider range of server 

information (e.g. OS type and 

version, installed applications, IP 

addresses) allowing customers to 

complement hardware 

management with OS information 

and alerting. 

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HP VMware Utilities 

Documentation and Whitepapers: 

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DocumentIndex.jspcontentType=SupportManual&lang=en&cc=us&docIndexId=6417 

9&taskId=101&prodTypeId=18964&prodSeriesId=420496 

• HPONCFG 

‣ Command line utility used for obtaining and setting ProLiant iL O configurations. 

• HPBOOT CFG 

‣ Command line utility used for configuring ProLiant server boot order . 

• HP ACUCLI (ESX-I 5.0 and 5.1 only) 

‣ Command line utility used for configuration and diagnostics of ProLiant server SmartArrays. 

• HP Remote System Management Utility 

‣ Currently, HP RSM is not supported with VMware hosts that are in lock-down mode. 

‣ The HP Remote System Management (RSM) utility is a Windows command line tool. HP RSM 

provides a view into a server's configuration and health. This tool displays data collected by the 

server's CIM providers. The data gathered by RSM can be reported either in XML or in text formats. 

HP RSM is designed to run on Microsoft Windows 7 and Windows Vista. 

HP RSM Download: 

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsplang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=15351&prodSeriesId=4091412&pro 

dNameId=4091432&swEnvOID=4115&swLang=8&mode=2&taskId=135&swItem=MTX-b677f47e08794b8cba62d12c3f 

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HP System Management & VMware Security 


• Secure Shell (SSH) 

‣ HP SIM uses SSH to run commands on managed systems. These commands include the 

command-line tools plus many HP-UX and Linux management tools. 

‣ The Insight Control virtual machine management plug-in to HP SIM requires SSH on the virtual 

machine host system to deploy the virtual machine management agent. 

‣ You can also add your own tools that use SSH. 

• WBEM 

‣ WBEM uses HTTPS to provide a secure TCP connection from the CMS to the managed system. 

WBEM uses its own port (5989 for SSL connections) and is supported through firewalls. 

‣ Firewalls should be configured to allow the HPSIM to communicate with managed systems through 

default port 5989. If you have modified the default port setting for your WBEM provider, you must 

configure your firewall for the port number your WBEM provider on which it is actually configured. 

• WMI 

‣ WMI is Microsoft’s implementation of WBEM. WMI runs over DCOM, which in turn, uses RPC. 

‣ The WMI Mapper is an application that provides translation from WMI (a DCOM-based interface) to 

a standardized WBEM interface (CIM XML/HTTP). This is a two-way translation. 

‣ The WMI Mapper is required for HP SIM to manage Windows computers, including ProLiant 

servers running the Insight Providers for Windows. 

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HP System Management & VMware Security 


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ESX5i Firewall Settings 



ESX Host Discovery 



VCenter Credentials 



ESX Host in HPSIM 



Managed System Setup Wizard 



Managed System Setup Wizard 



Add iLO to Vcenter Power Management 



Insight Control vCenter Installation 

Install Server and Storage components upfront. 

• There is no possibility to install the Storage part later. 

• Install Storage later, means uninstall the Server part and 

reinstall everything. 

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IC vCenter Installation – Storage Integration 

Add CV-EVA in order to add the Storage Array. 

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IC vCenter Installation – Server Integration 

Start the “HP Insight Control Server Administrator for vCenter” Application 

and add all your vCenter Servers. 

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IC vCenter Installation – VC Network Diagram 

If the iLO was configured 

in Power Management, 

the V-Center Integration 

should find the server 

automatically 

For the ESX host, you will need to add 

a SNMP Community String: 

In the “Server Password Management” 

page. Use “*” for both the Username and 

Host field. Specify the community string 

in the Password field, and select the 

“SNMP Community String” in the type 

dropdown. 

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IC vCenter Installation – VC Network Diagram 

In order to see the Virtual Connect Network Diagram, add a second/special 

user for VC Network Diagram scan. It should not be the Admin user! 

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IC vCenter Installation – VCND with VCEM 

Virtual Connect Network Diagram does not show up in a VCEM configuration 

1. Stop “HP Common Services” (on the server where ICE4VCenter is installed) 

2. Put VCEM Domain in Maintenance Mode 

3. Start HP common services, it will/should start HPICVCSERVER service as well 

4. Move out from VCEM Maintenance Mode 

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IC vCenter Installation – Problems fixed 

If you dont get the vCenter Integration to work, install the Visual C++ 2008 SP1 

Redistributable Package and reinstall the vCenter Integration 

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Refresh of the UI – Main area 

Related actions and control for 

the server and storage 

available in this pull down 

menu 

This pull down menu replaces 

the three view to navigate the 

different areas of the plug in 

New consolidated news feed 

delivering status information for 

the host selected and 

associated external storage 

Launch links replaced by 

these icons 

New UI allows maximization of the real 

estate available to show full Converge 

Infrastructure information inside individual 

portlets 

Quick view to level of 

access based on role 

assigned in VMware 

vCenter 

Subject to changes – early development screenshots 

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HP iLO4 

Managment Engine 






iLO Mobile Application 

• Server Management in your pocket 

• ProLiant G7 (iLO3) and Gen8 (iLO4) 

• iOS and Android 

• Phones and Tablets 

Features: 

• Remote Console 

• Power Button 

• Web-based Virtual Media 

• Server Health Status 

• Launch XML Scripts 

• QR Code Reader 

• Links to iLO web UI 



Generational comparison 

iLO 2 iLO 3 

iLO Management Engine 

(iLO 4) 

CPU 66 Mhz NEC v850 400 Mhz ARM 926 400 Mhz ARM 926 

Memory 

4MB Flash 

16MB SDRAM 

8MB Flash 

128MB DDR3 

(56MB after ECC & video) 

16MB Flash 

256MB DDR 3 

(112 MB after ECC & 

video) 

Network 10/100 Mbps 10/100 Mbps 1Gbps 

USB 1.1 2.0 2.0 

Video 

ATI ES1000 (external) 

• 1280 x 1024 (32 bpp) 

• 1600 x 1200 (16 bpp) 

Matrox G200 (embedded) 

• 1280 x 1024 (32 bpp) 

• 1920 x 1200 (16 bpp) 

Matrox G200 (embedded) 

• 1280 x 1024 (32 bpp) 

• 1920 x 1200 (16 bpp) 

DVR Color 12 bpp (4096 colors) 15 bpp (32,768 colors) 15 bpp (32,768 colors) 

NAND 

Storage 

4GB 



HP iLO Management Engine 

Core lifecycle management functions built in for instant availability 

HP Intelligent 

Provisioning 

HP Agentless 


HP Active Health 

System 

Ready to deploy and 

update out-of-box without 

the need for HP discs or 

downloads 

Base hardware health 

monitoring and alerting 

without OS agents 

Continuously running 

diagnostics to minimize 

downtime 

Cloud-enabled embedded management throughout all ProLiant Gen8 platforms 






Provisioning 




System 




downloads 






downtime 

No License Fee 



iLO4 – Active Health 

Search: fan module 

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Provisioning 




System 




downloads 






downtime 


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Agentless Management 




How does it work 

Bare Metal (OS not installed) 

• Agentless Management is provided by the iLO 

Management Engine for hardware status 

− Memory, Processor, Power and cooling 

HP SIM 

7.0 

ProLiant Gen8 Server 

Bare metal 

iLO 


Engine 

OS installed 

• A new service or daemon, Agentless 

Management Service is running on the host to 

provide software information to the iLO 

Management Engine 

HP SIM 

7.0 

ProLiant Gen8 Server 

OS installed 

iLO 


Engine 

Host 

Agentless 


Service 



Agents and Agentless Comparison 

AGENT-BASED 

AGENTLESS MANAGEMENT 

SNMP Agents Agentless Management With Agentless Management Service 

Server 

Health 

− Fans 

− Temps 

− Power supplies 

− Memory 

− CPU 

− Fans 

− Temps 


− Memory 

− CPU 

− Fans 

− Temps 


− Memory 

− CPU 

Storage 

− Smart Array 

− SAS/SATA HBA 

− Fibre Channel and iSCSI 

− SMART Drive Monitoring 

− Tape 

− External storage 



− Internal HDDs attached to 

Smart Array 


− SAS/SATA HBA 


− Internal HDDs attached to Smart Array 

NIC 

− Standup and embedded 

− MAC and IP address 

− Link Up/Down 

− Teaming information 

− VLAN information 

− MAC Addresses 

− Standup and embedded 

− MAC and IP address 

− Link Up/Down traps 

Other 

− Operating system 

information (Host MIB) 

− iLO data 

− Performance data 

− Configurable thresholds 

− Logging events to 

operating system logs 

− Clustering information 

− iLO data 

− Firmware inventory 

− iLO data 

− Operating system information (Host 

MIB) 

− Firmware inventory 

− Driver/Service inventory 




iLO4 View – No AMS 

iLO4 View – With AMS 

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HPSIM 7.0 for full Gen8 Server Support 



DL380 Gen8 with iLO4 SNMP Agentless Management 






Provisioning 




System 




downloads 






downtime 




HP Intelligent Provisioning Webpage 



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www.hp.com/go/intelligentprovisioning

iLO4 – Gen8 Boot Screen 



Gen8 Intelligent Features 






























iLO Licensing Features 

Free 

Licensed 

HP iLO 4 and iLO 3 HP iLO 2 HP iLO 4 and iLO 3 HP iLO 2 

Advanced Advanced Advanced for BladeSystem Advanced for BladeSystem 

Virtual KVM Full text and graphic modes (pre-OS) Full text and graphic modes (pre-OS) Full text and graphic modes (pre-OS & OS) Full text and graphic modes (pre-OS & OS) 

Virtual KVM Full text and graphic modes (pre-OS & OS) Full text and graphic modes (pre-OS & OS) Full text and graphic modes (pre-OS & OS) Full text and graphic modes (pre-OS & OS) 

Global Team Collaboration (Virtual KVM) Up to 6 Server Administrators Up to 4 Server Administrators Up to 6 Server Administrators Up to 4 Server Administrators 

Console Record and Replay • • • • 

Virtual Power • • • • 

Virtual Media • • Browser Only Browser Only 

Virtual Media • • • • 

Virtual folders • • • • 

Terminal Services Pass-Through • • 

Remote Serial Console SSH only • SSH only • 

Virtual Unit Indicator Display • • • • 

ROM-Based Setup Utility(RBSU) • • • • 

Option ROM Configuration for Arrays (ORCA) • • • • 

Blade Setup Wizard • • 

Present power reading • • • • 

Power usage reporting • • • • 

Ambient temperature reporting • • • • 

Dynamic Power Capping • • • • 

Power supply high-efficiency mode • • • • 

Sea of sensors • • • • 

POST and failure sequence replay • • • • 

iLO and server integrated management log • • • • 

Advanced Server Management (ASM) • • • • 

Alert Administrator (SNMP Pass-through) • • • • 

System health & configuration display • • • • 

Directory Services Authentication • • • • 

Two-Factor Authentication • • 

Locally Stored Accounts • • • • 

Browser • • • • 

Command Line • • • • 

XML/PERL scripting • • • • 

WS Management scripting • • 

Secure Socket Layer • • • • 

Secure Shell • • • • 

AES • • • • 

RC4 (Virtual KVM) • • • • 

Dedicated NIC • • • • 

Shared Network Port • • • • 

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