Comprehensive Management - Compaq BL10e - HP ProLiant - 512 MB RAM Introduction Manual

result of the broadened resource pool boundary, administrators will have a simplified workflow
process for a much greater number of resources.
• Enables bulk provisioning of network resources, whether connected to physical machines or virtual
machines.
• Exists side-by-side with virtual machines to provide abstraction and mobility for the widest range of
server resources and applications.
• Improves security by allowing lock-down mechanisms such as port-based zoning to be implemented
in a virtualized environment using physical resource pools. Certain environments that require higher
security in the data center network have resisted using virtual machine environments because of an
inability to lock down network addresses to specific ports on the data center network switch. With
the physical-layer abstraction provided by Virtual Connect, administrators will now have this
capability in a virtualized environment.

Comprehensive management

HP is uniquely positioned in the industry with its partner relationships, broad portfolio of in-house
technology, and professional services to bring together comprehensive management solutions
including a variety of programmatic and graphical user interfaces. The relationships that HP has
established, such as those with hypervisor vendors, will enable HP to recommend partner solutions
that are complementary to the HP solutions. This allows customers to choose whether they want to
establish a "fully HP" solution stack or bring in third-party offerings for specific functions. Customers
can engage with partner solutions at multiple management levels.
HP provides customers the opportunity to seamlessly manage their data center infrastructures, either
by using HP solutions alone or by incorporating partner solutions. HP delivers software that can
manage all logical servers, whether created on physical machines or virtual machines.
To provide such a comprehensive management structure, HP will be incorporating intelligence into
every level of infrastructure:
• Hardware components and platforms
• Infrastructure management software
• Enterprise/application management software
Hardware management includes tools to manage the physical hardware set-up, such as Onboard
Administrator, Integrated Lights-Out, Virtual Connect Manager, and HP StorageWorks Command
View EVA Software. These embedded managers are physically attached to the resource or have a
domain scope that encompasses the physical part of the platform. They give the capability to bind,
manage, and control compute and storage resources through their own user interfaces.
Infrastructure management will include tools such as the HP Insight Dynamics – VSE software and
Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager, both of which are tightly coupled with HP Systems Insight
Manager. These tools, sometimes referred to as domain or centralized managers, can provision the
application/OS, monitor logical servers, visualize the infrastructure, and analyze the server
virtualization technologies. These infrastructure-level tools have control over multiple domains or site to
site.
Enterprise-level, centralized management tools will allow administrators to work cohesively with
multiple management layers to provide business-level monitoring and orchestration. IT administrators
need to make hardware and software decisions based on meeting business objectives or application
performance levels. HP offers software such as HP Server Automation (formerly Opsware Server
Automation System) and HP Operations Center (formerly HP OpenView Operations).
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