HP BA322 90087 - Manual (Page 245)

D Using HP SIM and vMedia for Provisioning OpenVMS
HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) allows you to provision OpenVMS to one or more Integrity
servers in the network. This means that, from a single location in the network (a Microsoft
Windows ProLiant server designated as the management workstation), you can use HP SIM to
install, upgrade or configure OpenVMS on several servers simultaneously.
For installing or upgrading OpenVMS, HP SIM uses either InfoServer utility or virtual media
(vMedia) to provide the booting service over the network. Using the HP SIM interface, you can
initiate the installation or upgrade process, and OpenVMS is then booted from the InfoServer or
vMedia. While the installation or upgrade continues in the background, you can monitor the
process from your console or attend to other tasks. Using InfoServer, you can provision up to
eight servers simultaneously. Using vMedia, you can provision one server at a time. HP SIM
provisioning facilitates installing or upgrading OpenVMS on Integrity servers that do not include
a CD/DVD drive.
You can also use HP SIM provisioning to configure OpenVMS servers. HP SIM provisioning
supports applying OpenVMS licenses and configuring TCP/IP (for HP TCP/IP Services for
OpenVMS) on up to eight servers simultaneously.
You can also use vMedia independently of HP SIM to install or upgrade OpenVMS on a server.
When using vMedia, the bootable image can be stored on a network drive, or on the system from
where you browse to access the server. Unlike HP SIM provisioning, using vMedia independently
of HP SIM to install or upgrade OpenVMS, you interactively perform the procedure, specifying
answers to prompts (as documented in
Chapter 3 (page 45) and Chapter 6 (page 103) .
This appendix explains how to do the following:
•
Enable and use HP SIM provisioning to install, upgrade or configure OpenVMS on one or
more servers (
HP SIM Provisioning of OpenVMS ).
• Enable and use vMedia to install or upgrade OpenVMS ( Using vMedia Independently of
HP SIM ).
D.1 HP SIM Provisioning of OpenVMS
D.1.1 About HP SIM and Provisioning
HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) is the foundation for HP's unified server-storage
management strategy. It provides simplified, centralized management of multiple servers and
platforms through a web-based, unified (“single-pane-of-glass”) interface. HP SIM provides the
basic tools needed to identify, discover, monitor, and deploy systems and other assets on the
network. The core HP SIM software uses WBEM to deliver essential capabilities required to
manage HP server platforms.
HP SIM running on a Microsoft Windows ProLiant server supports provisioning of OpenVMS
on selected HP Integrity rack and blade servers. For information on prerequisites for HP SIM,
see
“Prerequisites for HP SIM Provisioning” (page 246) . An OpenVMS provisioning plug-in for
HP SIM must be installed on the ProLiant server. You can access HP SIM from a browser on
your PC. With provisioning support, HP SIM installs or upgrades OpenVMS quickly and easily
on one or more servers in the network, in much the same way as HP-UX supports provisioning.
You can also use provisioning support to apply OpenVMS licenses (Product Authorization Keys)
and to configure OpenVMS TCP/IP on one or more servers in the network simultaneously.
You use HP SIM to initiate the provisioning, after which the installation, upgrade or configuration
process occurs automatically in the background. To install or upgrade OpenVMS over the network
with HP SIM provisioning, you can use network services provided by the InfoServer utility and
TCP/IP services for OpenVMS, or you can use the vMedia feature provided with your Integrity
server firmware. Currently, HP SIM provisioning does not support booting from a shadowed
system disk.
To use the InfoServer software utility, you must create a service for a bootable image of OpenVMS
(a container file) stored at a location on the network that is accessible to the InfoServer. The
OpenVMS InfoServer utility serves for provisioning in much the same way as does the HP
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