HP Insight Control Integrations

The Microsoft System Center family of integrated solutions enables data center managers to optimize resources, improve visibility of IT assets and issues, meet service levels, and increase efficiencies - all while decreasing costs. HP has been delivering core management packs for the Microsoft System Center ecosystem for many years, and with HP Insight Control for Microsoft System Center, HP and Microsoft customers can take advantage of in-depth infrastructure monitoring and management directly from the Microsoft System Center consoles.

New! Support for Microsoft System Center 2012:

• System Center Operations Manager 2012
• System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012

HP Insight Control for Microsoft System Center provides seamless integration of the unique ProLiant and BladeSystem manageability features into Microsoft System Center. Licensed as part of HP Insight Control, these extensions deliver comprehensive system health and alerting, driver and firmware updates, OS deployment, detailed inventory, and proactive virtual machine management in a flexible, easy to install package. And HP Insight Control for Microsoft System Center is backed by HP Service and Support, ensuring timely service when you need it most.

By integrating the server management features of HP ProLiant and HP BladeSystem into Microsoft System Center consoles, administrators can gain greater control of their technology environments. This provides consistency for software deployment and updates and enables a faster response in the event of server failure, reducing the risk of downtime.

HP Insight Control for Microsoft System Center extends the best-managed ProLiant experience for customers who have standardized on a Microsoft System Center management platform.

• Prevent problems from occurring with proactive monitoring and management
• Quickly and reliably deploy bare metal servers
• Ensure consistency and maximize uptime with simplified driver and firmware updates
• Reduce unplanned downtime with proactive virtual machine movement
• Fully integrated into System Center means one less tool to learn and manage

System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) support:

• The HP ProLiant and BladeSystem Management Packs expose the native capabilities of ProLiant and BladeSystem servers and enclosures to help prevent problems from occurring by proactively monitoring and managing hardware health and intelligently responding to hardware events on servers running Windows.
• The HP ProLiant Agentless Management Pack manages the health of ProLiant Gen8 servers without the need for loading OS-based SNMP agents or WBEM providers. It can also be used to monitor the health of servers that do not have an OS yet loaded, as well as ProLiant Gen8 servers running any operating system that has a supported Agentless Monitoring Service (such as VMware ESXi).
• The HP ProLiant Linux and VMware Management Packs provide the ability to monitor hardware health and configuration, as well as to receive HP hardware alerts, on ProLiant servers running Linux and VMware ESX.
• Supports SCOM 2007 and SCOM 2012 for all HP SCOM management packs.

System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) support:

• The HP Performance Resource Optimization (PRO) Management Pack reduces unplanned downtime by proactively automating live migration of Hyper-V virtual machines based upon HP pre-failure and predictive hardware alerts from ProLiant servers. Supports SCVMM 2008.
• New HP SCVMM 2012 Integration Kit provides HP WinPE and production drivers for ProLiant servers to assist with OS deployment via SCVMM 2012.
• The HP ProLiant Updates Catalog can be used by SCVMM 2012 to provide simplified Windows driver and firmware updates via a rotating, automated workflow for Hyper-V clusters.

System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) support:

• The HP ProLiant Server Operating System Deployment (OSD) feature provides quick and reliable Windows deployment to bare metal HP servers, including pre-deployment hardware and BIOS configuration, and post-OS HP driver and agent installation.
• The HP ProLiant Updates Catalog ensures consistency and maximizes uptime with simplified Windows driver and firmware updates using the HP Service Pack for ProLiant.
• The HP ProLiant Hardware Inventory Tool provides detailed component level inventory of every managed HP Windows server.
• Supports SCCM 2007. SCCM 2012 support is planned for a future release.

HP Insight Control for Microsoft System Center is also a key management element for HP Virtual Systems for Microsoft. HP VirtualSystem for Microsoft is a new portfolio of virtualization solutions for your data center that simplifies the selection, purchase and delivery of virtualized infrastructure sized to the capacity and performance requirements of your organization.

The HP Storage Management Pack for System Center provides seamless integration with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (including SCOM 2012) by integrating predefined discovery and state monitoring policies, event processing rules and tasks. This comprehensive integration solution complements HP Insight Control for Microsoft System Center, and allows administrators to proactively streamline IT operations and increase systems availability by monitoring ProLiant server environments and HP Storage products through a common console.

A core component of HP Insight Control, the Microsoft System Center extensions are included with HP Insight Control, which can be purchased as a single license, in bulk quantities, or bundled with HP ProLiant and BladeSystem hardware. Existing Insight Control customers who are under a current Technical Support and Software Updates contract can even download the extensions free of charge!