Requests for this ProLiant Software release are due back to HP no later than:

August 1, 2008

 

Insight Control Management DVD 2.00

      • The Insight Control Management DVD and integrated installer now supports five management suites:

      – HP Insight Control Environment (for ML/DL servers)

      – HP Insight Control Environment for BladeSystem (for BL servers) —NEW

      – HP Insight Control Data Center Edition (for BL servers) – only with select c-Class enclosures

      – HP iLO Power Management Pack (for ML/DL servers)

      – HP iLO Power Management Pack for BladeSystem (for BL servers) —NEW

      • The blade suites now support all HP ProLiant c-Class and p-Class blade servers. For the complete list of servers supported by each management suite, see the HP Insight Control Management Support Matrix.

      • The Insight Control Management licensing menu has moved. Select the appropriate menu as follows:

      – To access the Insight Control Environment licensing menu, select Deploy>Insight Control Licenses>Insight Control Environment (ML/DL).

      – To access the Insight Control Environment for BladeSystem licensing menu, select Deploy>Insight Control Licenses>Insight Control Environment (BL).

– To access the Insight Control Data Center Edition licensing menu, select Deploy>Insight Control Licenses>Insight Control Data Center Edition (BL).

      – To access the Insight Power Manager licenses that are included with iLO Power Management Pack and iLO Power Management Pack for BladeSystem, select Deploy>Licenses menu.

                  NOTE: You must run the Insight Control Management Integrated Installer to install Insight Control Management Services, which also installs the Insight Control Management menu.

      • Insight Control Management provides integrated installation or upgrade of the following component versions:

      – HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) 5.1 SP1 with:

            • HP System Management Homepage 2.1.8 (updated)

            • HP Version Control Repository Manager 2.1.8 (updated)

            • WMI Mapper 2.3

      – HP BladeSystem Integrated Manager 2.4 (updated)

      – HP Insight Power Manager 1.20 (updated)

      – HP Services Essentials Remote Support Pack

      – Extensions for HP SIM on Microsoft® Windows® —NEW

 


 

      – HP Performance Management Pack 4.5 (updated)

      – HP Rapid Deployment Pack 3.60 (updated)

      – HP Vulnerability and Patch Management Pack 2.1 (updated)

      – HP Virtualization Management Software 2.2 (updated)

      – HP Insight Control Environment Advisor 1.0 —NEW

      • You can select installation components by suite or by component. HP SIM, Insight Power Manager, HP BladeSystem Integrated Manager, and Insight Control Management Services are the only required components for installation. All components previously installed are required selections for upgrade.

      • Upgrade support from Insight Control Data Center Edition 1.0, 1.0.1, and 1.0.2. Upgrade support from Insight Control Management 1.10 and 1.11.

      • The Insight Control Management Software Update utility connects to the HP website to check for new releases of the components installed by Insight Control Management. For each component, the utility provides the latest version number, installation status, and release date, in addition to links to download the standalone installer or the DVD ISO image. This utility is now scheduled by default to run one time by the integrated installer and again every Monday at 8:00 a.m. From HP SIM, you can run or modify the scheduled weekly task by selecting Tools>Insight Control Management> Software Updates...

      The new Insight Control Environment (ICE) Advisor automatically verifies that the target platform complies with installation prerequisites. The advisor runs a series of tests on the server and identifies issues that might affect the Insight Control Management suite installation or operation. HP recommends running the ICE Advisor to verify your environment before starting an installation or upgrade.

                        • Starting in July 2007, all Insight Control suites and selected ProLiant Essentials software products will include one year of 24 x 7 Software Technical Support and Update Services with purchased licenses. You must register your purchased licenses to receive Software Technical Support and Update Services. For more information, go to http://www.hp.com/services/insight.

                        • Help has been added for each screen of the integrated installer. Click ? to access the installer help.

                        • The Insight Control Management Integrated Installer checks for prerequisites based on the components selected for installation.

                        • You can now install all components on Microsoft Windows 2003 SP2 (Standard or Enterprise Editions).

      • A progress bar has been added for tracking installation progress.

      • The following items have been translated to Japanese:

      – Insight Control Management Integrated Installer and help files

      – Insight Control Management Services—licensing user interface, software update utility, and help files

      – Insight Control Environment Advisor

 


 

Component updates

      • Extensions for HP SIM on Microsoft Windows have been added to the integrated installer. The extensions add menus to HP SIM that access server management tools for HP-UX and Linux. The server management tools run on HP-UX and Linux managed systems, and include OpenView GlancePlus and HP-UX tools such as Ignite-UX, Software Distributor-UX, HP-UX configuration tools, and HP-UX Workload Manager.

      • Virtualization Management Software (VMS) version 2.2—Virtual Machine Management Pack (VMM) and Server Migration Pack (SMP):

      – Server Migration Pack supports additional servers for virtual-to-physical (V2P) migrations

      – New upgrade option from VMM–SMP 1.x, 2.0.x, or 2.1.x to VMM–SMP 2.2, including Virtual Machine Management Pack database migration

      • HP BladeSystem Integrated Manager version 2.4:

      – Graphical view of HP BladeSystem

      – Rack and enclosure view of HP BladeSystem

      – Operating system and virtual server information for each server blade

      • Rapid Deployment Pack (RDP) version 3.60:

      – Added operating system support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 for x86, AMD64 and Intel® EM64T (scripted installation only)

      – Removed operating system support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3

      • Performance Management Pack (PMP) version 4.5:

      – Scales to monitor up to 1,000 systems

      – Supports Microsoft Windows Server™ 2003 SP2 and Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 Standard and Enterprise Editions

      • Insight Power Manager (IPM) 1.20:

      – Graphing of c-Class enclosures, Power Consumption and Inlet Air Temperature data

      – Setting a Power Cap (in Watts, Btu/hr or Percentage) on a single server or a collection of servers

      – Updating CPU Performance Graph to show the impact of a Power Cap

      – Setting the HP Power Regulator state on c-Class blades (selected ML and DL servers were supported in IPM 1.0)

      • Vulnerability and Patch Management Pack (VPM) version 2.1:

      – Resolves some existing issues with the installer and the tool

      – VPM version 2.1 supports Red Hat Linux AS 2.1, 3, and 4 as target operating systems

      – VPM version 2.1 requires HP SIM version 5.1 or later

      • System Management Homepage (SMH) version 2.1.8:

      – Added support for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP2 and Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 DataCenter Edition (DCE)

      • HP Version Control Repository Manager (VCRM) version 2.1.8:

      – Added support for Microsoft Windows Server2003 SP2 for Windows Vista

 

HP Server Migration Pack Physical to ProLiant 1.30

 

Additional platform support. For more information, see the HP ProLiant Essentials Server Migration Pack – Physical to ProLiant Edition Support Matrix on the HP ProLiant Essentials Server Migration Pack – Physical to ProLiant Edition (SMP – P2P) CD.

 

A white paper describing how to perform physical to ProLiant application migrations provides detailed information on how to configure domain controller and exchange servers. This white paper, Performing Physical to ProLiant application migrations with the HP ProLiant Essentials Server Migration Pack – Physical to ProLiant Edition, is available through your HP account manager.

 

HP Insight Control Linux Edition 1.60

 

·         Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 5 support added

·         Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 support added

·         SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 support added

·         SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 PSP task chain enabled

·         Australian 2007 daylight savings time support added

·         Capture/deploy of OS images with greater than 4 Partitions issue fixed

·         SLES Interactive task chain issue fixed

·         End User License Agreement changes

·         One year 24x7 support services included with new purchases