HP INSIGHT DYNAMICS T8671-91017 User manual

HP Insight Dynamics 6.2 Getting Started
Guide
HP Part Number: T8671-91017
Published: October 2010
Edition: 1

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Table of Contents
1 Introduction to HP Insight Dynamics.............................................................................5
Components of HP Insight Dynamics....................................................................................................5
HP Insight Virtualization Manager software....................................................................................6
Logical servers...................................................................................................................................6
HP Insight Capacity Advisor software.............................................................................................7
HP Insight Capacity Advisor Consolidation software......................................................................7
HP Insight Orchestration software....................................................................................................8
HP Insight Recovery software...........................................................................................................8
HP Storage Provisioning Manager....................................................................................................8
Application Discovery.......................................................................................................................9
HP Insight Global Workload Manager software for Integrity..........................................................9
HP Instant Capacity Manager...........................................................................................................9
Partition Manager............................................................................................................................10
Integrity Virtual Machines Manager...............................................................................................10
Product configurations.........................................................................................................................10
Features of Insight Dynamics...............................................................................................................11
2 License management...................................................................................................15
Insight Dynamics licensing model........................................................................................................15
Trial licenses..........................................................................................................................................15
End-user license agreement..................................................................................................................16
HP ProLiant servers and ProLiant server blades..................................................................................16
HP Integrity and HP 9000 servers and Integrity server blades............................................................17
Non-HP servers.....................................................................................................................................17
HP Insight Capacity Advisor Consolidation software.........................................................................18
Adding and applying licenses..............................................................................................................18
Recommended Process: Use the managed system setup wizard...................................................18
Alternative Process: Use HP SIM License Manager........................................................................18
Scan for HP-UX licenses........................................................................................................................19
License requirements for systems with HP Instant Capacity products...............................................20
3 Getting Started.............................................................................................................21
Installing the software...........................................................................................................................21
Configuring privilege elevation............................................................................................................21
Using the Insight managed system setup wizard................................................................................21
Configuring user authorizations..........................................................................................................21
Configuring data collection credentials................................................................................................22
Removing unneeded agent software....................................................................................................22
4 Troubleshooting............................................................................................................25
Memory and other system requirements.............................................................................................25
Insight managed system setup wizard.................................................................................................25
Diagnose menu actions.........................................................................................................................25
Check CMS configuration...............................................................................................................25
Check CMS to managed node communication...............................................................................26
Check managed node configuration...............................................................................................27
vseassist command...............................................................................................................................28
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5 Support and other resources.......................................................................................29
Contacting HP.......................................................................................................................................29
Related information..............................................................................................................................29
Manuals and white papers..............................................................................................................29
Installation and configuration: Microsoft Windows CMS.........................................................29
Installation and configuration: HP-UX CMS.............................................................................30
Using Insight Dynamics.............................................................................................................30
Websites...........................................................................................................................................31
Information and solutions..........................................................................................................31
Products......................................................................................................................................31
Command references (manpages)...................................................................................................31
Reference pages installed on the CMS.......................................................................................31
Reference pages installed with agent software on managed systems.......................................32
Reference page installed on cell-based complexes....................................................................32
Reference pages installed on systems running HP Integrity Virtual Machines........................33
Selected HP Systems Insight Manager software reference pages..............................................33
Typographic conventions......................................................................................................................33
Command reference........................................................................................................35
vseassist(1M).........................................................................................................................................36
vselicense(1M).......................................................................................................................................41
Glossary............................................................................................................................47
Index.................................................................................................................................51
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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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including security recommendations, summary of included products, and documentation
roadmap, see HP Insight Software 6.2 Getting Started Guide.
•Insight Dynamics can be installed on the following types of CMS running HP-UX:
— HP Integrity server
— HP Integrity server blade
— virtual machine running under HP Integrity Virtual Machines
For installation on a CMS running HP-UX, see HP Insight Dynamics 6.2 Integrity CMS
Installation and Configuration Guide.
The following sections summarize the major software components of Insight Dynamics. For
more information, see the user guides and other documents listed in “Related information”
(page 29). Help is also available within the software by clicking the button in the upper right
of most screens.
HP Insight Virtualization Manager software
Virtualization Manager provides the framework for visualizing your virtual server environment.
All of the systems and workloads that you are authorized to view are displayed in graphical
views. The hierarchical relationships between systems is displayed in the Visualization View.
Different perspectives can be selected to customize this view. The Workload View shows the
workloads running under servers. Both views show current utilization metrics, allowing you to
easily monitor the operational status of the resources managed by Insight Dynamics.
With Virtualization Manager, you can perform the following tasks:
•Customize the level of detail that you want to see
•Easily access additional Insight Dynamics capabilities to manage and configure systems and
workloads
•Inventory your virtual and physical servers
•Centrally configure your server resources for optimum utilization
Launch Virtualization Manager from HP SIM in any of the following ways:
•From the HP SIM menu bar, choose Tools→Virtualization Manager...
•From the HP SIM Systems and Event Collections list in the left navigation area, choose
Systems→Shared→Systems by Type→All VSE Resources, or expand the All VSE
Resources collection by clicking its icon, then choose a subset such as nPartitions
•Create a custom HP SIM collection whose default view is set to “VSE”, and choose that
collection in the left navigation area
For more information about Virtualization Manager, see the HP Insight Virtualization Manager
6.2 Software with Logical Server Management User Guide, available at http://www.hp.com/go/
insightdynamics/docs.
Logical servers
Alogical server is a set of configuration information that you create, activate and move across
physical and virtual machines. It contains the logical server definition and description, including
the server compute resources (for example, number of CPU cores and amount of memory), and
the server connections to storage fabric and networks.
A logical server is managed within Virtualization Manager and, when activated, is applied to
the creation of a virtual machine using hypervisor-based software or to a bare-metal server blade
using HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager. Logical servers can be defined using the Create
Logical Server wizard or created and activated via the import of an existing server blade or
virtual machine.
The Logical Servers feature in Virtualization Manager allows you to perform tasks such as the
following:
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•Populate an enclosure
•Load balance servers
•Evacuate servers, for routine maintenance or in case of disaster
NOTE: Logical server management is only supported on a CMS running Microsoft Windows.
For more information about managing logical servers, see the HP Insight Virtualization Manager
6.2 Software with Logical Server Management User Guide, available at http://www.hp.com/go/
insightdynamics/docs.
HP Insight Capacity Advisor software
Capacity Advisor lets you quickly and safely test potentially costly configuration changes in
your data center before you actually make them. To start Capacity Advisor, select
Tools→Capacity Advisor from the top menu bar, or select the Capacity Advisor tab within
Virtualization Manager. With Capacity Advisor, you can find answers to questions such as the
following:
•Is there room on this system for an additional workload?
•Will this workload fit on this system?
•Can I consolidate these servers as virtual machines on a single server?
•What might my resource demand be in six months or a year?
•What are the estimated power costs for cooling a real or simulated system configuration?
•What does a comparison of several what-if scenarios reveal about the analyzed alternatives?
Capacity Advisor helps you optimize workloads across your management domain to help maximize
utilization of server resources. It provides scenario analysis to help you manage your current
server resources and plan for changes to your workloads and resources. These scenarios allow
you to simulate the following actions:
•Resizing systems
•Resizing workloads
•Moving workloads
Capacity Advisor provides the following additional features.
•Automated generation of reports Capacity Advisor automates report generation that would
otherwise take many manual steps to collect and present data or analysis.
•Trace-based simulator Providing graphs over specific data intervals, Capacity Advisor
gives a more complete and accurate view of resource utilization than focusing on a single
peak.
•Ease of data gathering Data is collected automatically using a secure protocol and stored
in a central database for analysis.
For more information about Capacity Advisor, see the HP Insight Capacity Advisor 6.2 User Guide,
available at http://www.hp.com/go/insightdynamics/docs.
HP Insight Capacity Advisor Consolidation software
Capacity Advisor is also available through a limited-duration license for systems that are intended
to be consolidated. The HP Insight Capacity Advisor Consolidation software does not include
Virtualization Manager or any other Insight Dynamics components. Using this software, you
can collect and analyze data to help you plan the consolidation of existing systems, without
requiring a full Insight Dynamics license for those systems. For more information, see the section
“Data collection and the HP Insight Capacity Advisor Consolidation software” in the HP Insight
Capacity Advisor 6.2 User Guide.
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HP Insight Orchestration software
HP Insight Orchestration extends HP Insight Dynamics to provide rapid provisioning and
repurposing of infrastructure services from shared resource pools using a self-service portal.
Insight Orchestration delivers advanced template-driven design, provisioning and on-going
operations for multinode, multi-tier infrastructure services.
HP Insight Orchestration supports four main activities to automate the deployment of
infrastructure services:
Design An architect uses the graphical designer to create simple and complex
infrastructure templates that, when tested, can be published for users to create
infrastructure services.
Provision A self-service user selects an existing template and then requests infrastructure
provisioning from it, against an assigned pool of resources. The administrator
can approve or deny this request, and monitor its progress.
Operate The administrator manages server, network, and storage pools, defines virtual
machine images and software deployment jobs, performs manual provisioning
tasks as part of the fulfillment of self-service requests, and uses Insight software
to monitor the health and utilization of the managed environment.
Integrate Architects and administrators integrate Insight Orchestration with existing IT
processes by modifying or creating Operations Orchestration workflows to
customize the Insight Orchestration automation. They can link to approval
processes, extend operating system deployment and server configuration, and
integrate the SAN management processes with server deployment.
For more information about HP Insight Orchestration software and the related Operations
Orchestration software, see the list of documents under “Related information” (page 29).
HP Insight Recovery software
HP Insight Recovery provides simplified disaster recovery of logical server environments. With
a mouse click, HP Insight Recovery transfers application environments running on HP
BladeSystems or on virtual machines to a remote Recovery Site. It utilizes the data replication
capabilities of HP storage environments to ensure that application data is properly transitioned
to the recovery location and that the overall transition is measured in minutes, not days. Insight
Recovery is only supported on an HP ProLiant CMS running Microsoft Windows.
Logical servers that are included in an HP Insight Recovery configuration are referred to as “DR
protected logical servers”. An HP Insight Recovery configuration consists of two sites, each
managed by HP Insight Dynamics. At any point in time, one site is configured with the primary
role and the other is configured with the recovery role. HP Insight Recovery pairs symmetrically
configured logical servers across the two sites. The DR protected logical servers at the Primary
Site are in an activated state, providing services to the end-user. The peer logical servers at the
Recovery Site are in a deactivated state.
If a disaster occurs at the Primary Site, the administrator at the Recovery Site can trigger a site
failover via a push-button provided by HP Insight Recovery. This will prepare the storage
associated with the DR protected logical servers at the Recovery Site for read-write access, and
then activate the logical servers at the Recovery Site. The site role at the Recovery Site will be
changed to primary.
For more information about HP Insight Recovery software, see the see the list of documents
under “Related information” (page 29).
HP Storage Provisioning Manager
HP Storage Provisioning Manager (SPM) is a software tool that provides a service-centric
management interface to storage, allowing storage requests to be fulfilled with available storage
services from a storage catalog. SPM securely automates storage management tasks.
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SPM is automatically installed as part of Insight Dynamics and is accessed through the logical
server management (LSM) feature of Virtualization Manager. SPM must be connected to EVAs
using Command View (CV), storage arrays that are managed by HP Insight Orchestration (HPIO)
using Insight Operations Orchestration or SMI-S, and to unmanaged storage arrays.
For more information about SPM, see the HP Storage Provisioning Manager User Guide, available
at http://www.hp.com/go/insightdynamics/docs.
Application Discovery
Application Discovery helps you identify and learn about the applications and processes running
in your data center or computing network.
With Application Discovery, you can do the following:
•Discover the location and number of recognized, running and installed applications in your
network or data center
•Monitor the activity and resource usage of running processes and applications
•Define and adapt application templates to your environment for better discovery of your
third-party and custom applications, and to make them available for adding to monitored
workloads
•Select the event types for which you want to receive notifications and set their level of
importance
For more information about Application Discovery, see the Application Discovery 6.2 User Guide,
available at http://www.hp.com/go/insightdynamics/docs.
HP Insight Global Workload Manager software for Integrity
To access Global Workload Manager (gWLM) from Virtualization Manager, select the Shared
Resource Domain tab or select one of the items under Tools→Global Workload Manager from
the Insight Dynamics menu bar. Global Workload Manager improves both workload performance
and resource utilization in a shared computing environment. For servers partitioned with
nPartitions, virtual partitions, virtual machines, psets, or FSS groups, gWLM can do the following:
•Monitor each application.
•Determine the CPU resources needed by each application.
•Automatically migrate CPU resources between partitions to where they are needed most.
This migration improves application performance by making more resources available to
the application at times of peak demand. In addition, migrating idle resources to the
applications that are busy increases processor utilization.
For more information about gWLM, see the HP Insight Global Workload Manager 6.2 User Guide,
available at http://www.hp.com/go/insightdynamics/docs.
HP Instant Capacity Manager
The Instant Capacity (iCAP) Manager is a web-based interface that can be used to monitor your
Instant Capacity environment. There are several pages available in iCAP Manager, including a
home page to provide an overview of the Instant Capacity resources available, a Global Instant
Capacity (GiCAP) group manager page to provide more insight into the group managers, and
detail pages for GiCAP groups and iCAP complexes and hosts.
You can get to iCAP Manager in either of the following ways:
•From the Virtualization Manager Visualization tab, click the iCAP technology link associated
with any managed system that has iCAP components, TiCAP capacity, or is a member of a
GiCAP group.
•Select Tools→Instant Capacity Manager from the Insight Dynamics menu bar.
For more information about iCAP Manager, see the iCAP Manager help.
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Partition Manager
Partition Manager provides system administrators with a convenient graphical user interface to
configure and manage nPartitions on HP server systems. Using Partition Manager, you can
perform configuration tasks without having to remember commands and parameters. You select
nPartitions, cells, I/O chassis or other components from the graphical display, then select an
action from a menu.
You can use Partition Manager to perform the following tasks:
•Create, modify and delete nPartitions
•Examine the nPartition configuration of a complex
•Check the complex for potential configuration and hardware problems
•Manage hardware resources on the complex
For more information about Partition Manager, see the Partition Manager help.
Integrity Virtual Machines Manager
HP Integrity Virtual Machines Manager (VM Manager) is the GUI that you can use from your
browser to manage Integrity VM resources. VM Manager allows you to create, configure and
evaluate virtual machines, and monitor and evaluate data and resources at the level of the VM
Host. You can view all of a VM Host's virtual machines and their assigned resources, and you
can view all resources assigned to a specific virtual machine or virtual switch. For example, VM
Manager provides graphical views of virtual-to-physical network and storage devices so that
you can view I/O data, including resource utilization information. VM Manager obtains
information about Integrity VM resources through Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM)
providers installed on the VM Host.
For more information about VM Manager, see the HP Integrity Virtual Machines Manager 4.1.1
Software: User Guide, available at http://www.hp.com/go/insightdynamics/docs.
Product configurations
Insight Dynamics is licensed per managed system. Different Insight Dynamics suite licenses are
available for managing different types of systems, as shown in Table 1-1. For more information
about Insight Dynamics licenses, see “License management” (page 15).
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