Virtual Machine Management Pack

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HP ProLiant Essentials Virtual Machine Management Pack 3.6 Customer Presentation

2 April 10, 2023

Optimize your time and resources by unifying physical and virtual management

• Part of HP Insight Control management

• Extends HP Systems Insight Manager to manage virtual machines

• Supports heterogeneous virtualization platforms−VMware

−Microsoft

−Citrix XenServer

Virtual Machine Management Pack 3.6

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What does VMM do?

• Association of VM guests to host servers

• VM control functions− Start, Stop, Pause, Suspend

• VM recovery functions− Copy, Move, Back up, Template

• Flexible move options − Initiate VMware VMotion

− SAN fast moves (VMware only)

− File-copy moves

• Consolidated Event collection (VMware ESX and VirtualCenter)

• Failed Host recovery (VMware only)

• Performance indicators for Host and VMs

− Set thresholds and receive alerts for CPU, memory, and more

• Predictive-failure actions – move VMs before hardware fails (VMware only)

• Integration with VMware VirtualCenter

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Predictive Failure Alert Handling

Resource Pool

• Monitored by HP SIM with VMM

• Pre-failure alerts: fan failure, high temperature, disk errors, memory errors

• VMware HA only has the ability to react to hardware failures and restart VMs

• VMM can now enable VirtualCenter to react to a predictive failure by relocating VMs before hardware failure

• Leveraging VMware DRS allows easy load-balancing of the relocated VMs

Systems Insight ManagerVirtual Machine Manager

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Reduce downtime and improve your virtualization

ROI!

VMM is the only solution available with “out of the

box” predictive failure actions and that leverages

VMware DRS

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What’s new in VMM 3.6?

Support for − Microsoft Hyper V

− Xen on RHEL/SLES

− New VMware ESX versions

− Integrated Citrix XenServer 5.0

− SIM 5.3

− Linux CMS

− SQL Server 2008

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HP and VMware management—why both?

• Best in class physical server management – manage all servers, not just VM hosts

• Unified physical and virtual server management – admins understand virtual context of servers they manage

• Heterogeneous VM management – VMware, Microsoft, and Citrix

• React automatically to predictive failures to reduce downtime

• Collect events from ESX and VirtualCenter in HP SIM for a consolidated event console

• Provide server admins with limited VM control without having to give access to full VirtualCenter console

Plus, with HP Insight Control, you get remote management, power management, and more!

7 April 10, 2023

Embedded Software Technical Support and Updates

• One year 24 x 7 support and update service included with software license purchase with option to purchase extensions

• Speedy access to trained technicians for rapid problem analysis and resolution

• 3 levels of engineering support for complex error isolation and troubleshooting

• Proactive notification and delivery of latest software updates

• Software download or media based delivery

• Single portal for access to contract status and update services

8 April 10, 2023

Next steps

• Visit

www.hp.com/go/tryinsightcontrol to try Virtual Machine Management Pack

− 60 day licenses available

• Ordering VMM− Available standalone per host server

− Available as part of Insight Control Environment

− Available as part of VMware + Insight Control bundle from HP