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.
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
Key HP Insight Control for Microsoft System Center features include:
- The HP ProLiant and BladeSystem Management Packs integrate with System Center Operations Manager to expose the native capabilities of ProLiant and Blade System servers and enclosures. This provides greater visibility of ProLiant and BladeSystems using Operations Manager Diagram, System, State, and Alert Views, enabling quick root cause analysis with graphical characterization.
- The new HP ProLiant Linux and VMware Management Pack provides the ability to monitor hardware health and configuration, as well as to receive HP hardware alerts, on ProLiant servers running Linux and VMware ESX. Customers can now use System Center Operations Manager to manage the health of ProLiant servers running supported versions of Windows, Linux, and VMware ESX, all from the same console.
- The HP ProLiant Server Operating System Deployment (OSD) module tightly integrates with System Center Configuration Manager to automatically deploy bare metal servers. This includes support for pre-deployment hardware and BIOS configuration, and post-OS driver and agent installation.
- The HP ProLiant Hardware Inventory Tool uses native System Center Software Distribution to provide detailed component level inventory of every managed server.
- The HP Server Updates Catalog uses System Center Configuration Manager to install and update ProLiant drivers and firmware using a rules based model.
- The HP Performance Resource Optimization (PRO) Management Pack works in conjunction with System Center Operations Manager and System Center Virtual Machine Manager to proactively guide and automate movement of virtual machines based upon pre-failure hardware alerts.
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!
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