HP INSIGHT DYNAMICS T8671-91017 - Manual (Page 5)

1 Introduction to HP Insight Dynamics
This document provides an overview of HP Insight Dynamics. It is intended to be used by system
administrators and other technical professionals involved with data center operations,
administration and planning.
• Chapter 1 describes the product features and the available configurations.
• Chapter 2 (page 15) describes the licensing model and license mangement procedures.
• Chapter 3 (page 21) describes initial setup steps to get started with Insight Dynamics.
• Chapter 4 (page 25) describes the tools available to set up managed systems correctly and
diagnose and correct common configuration problems.
• Chapter 5 (page 29) provides a list of support resources and a comprehensive list of Insight
Dynamics documentation.
• The Command reference (page 35) provides command reference pages for the vseassist(1M)
and vselicense(1M) commands that are mentioned elsewhere in this document.
• The Glossary (page 47) provides definitions of key terms used in this document. Initial
occurrences of terms with glossary definitions appear in italics. If you are viewing this
document in electronic form, click the italicized term to jump to the glossary definition.
HP Insight Dynamics is an integrated command center that enables you to continuously analyze
and optimize your adaptive infrastructure. It builds on the HP infrastructure management
portfolio, including HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) and HP Insight software.
Insight Dynamics provides an integrated graphical environment for managing physical servers,
logical servers , virtual machines , server blades , nPartitions , virtual partitions , applications, and workloads .
You can dynamically resize virtual servers and migrate resources where they are needed, based
on service-level objectives and business requirements.
For information about the changes in this release of Insight Dynamics, see the HP Insight Dynamics
6.2 Release Notes. For a complete list of Insight Dynamics documentation and the web sites where
these documents can be found, see
“Related information” (page 29) .
IMPORTANT: The information in the following sections is a summary. Specific supported
hardware and software configurations are provided in the HP Insight Software 6.2 Support Matrix,
available at
http://www.hp.com/go/insightdynamics/docs .
Components of HP Insight Dynamics
The Insight Dynamics software is installed on a Central Management Server (CMS) running HP
SIM, which provides a browser-based user interface. A single CMS can be used to manage
different types of systems. The software is installed on the CMS once, regardless of how many
or what types of
managed system licenses are purchased. The following CMS installations are
supported:
• Insight Dynamics can be installed on the following types of CMS running Microsoft Windows:
— HP ProLiant server
—
HP BladeSystem c-Class ProLiant server blade
— Virtual machine running under VMware ESX or Microsoft Hyper-V on HP ProLiant or
supported non-HP server
On a CMS running Microsoft Windows, Insight Dynamics is installed as part of the Insight
software family of products. For installation and configuration information, see HP Insight
Software 6.2 Preinstallation Worksheet, HP Insight Software 6.2 Quick Installation Guide, and HP
Insight Software 6.2 Installation and Configuration Guide. For an introduction to Insight software,
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