HP Insight Dynamics 6.0 Release notes

— Using industry standard benchmarks to scale CPU data when moving systems or
workloads in a scenario to increase modeling accuracy.
— Enhanced wizard for creating scenarios.
• HP Insight Global Workload Manager (gWLM) software
Global Workload Manager improves both workload performance and resource utilization
in a shared compute 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
This release provides an advanced reporting wizard and defect fixes.
• HP Insight Orchestration software
HP Insight Orchestration, also known as Insight Dynamics infrastructure orchestration, is
included in HP Insight Dynamics for ProLiant and non-HP servers. Insight Orchestration
provides rapid provisioning and re-purposing of infrastructure services from shared resource
pools, using a self-service portal. Insight Orchestration delivers advanced template-driven
design, provisioning, and ongoing operations for multi-node, multi-tier infrastructure
services built around HP infrastructure technology. Insight Orchestration runs on an x86/x64
Windows CMS. New in this release:
— Optional integration with Ignite-UX and HP Server Automation deployment servers
— Automatic provisioning of Integrity blades for HP-UX 11i
— Automation via programmable API and scriptable command line
— Enhanced resource calendar views, dashboards, and console window launch to managed
system
— Linked clone support for VMware ESX 4.x and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 with
Hyper-V virtual machines
— Virtual machine provisioning using VMware ESX templates – no longer requires Insight
Control virtual machine templates for VMware ESX
— Control of user access to specific templates
— Improved storage pool configuration and provisioning
— Troubleshoot HP Insight Orchestration components' installation and configuration
problems with ioassist
— Local disk (direct-attached storage) support for servers
— Server power and (re)boot control
— Configurable service lease end behavior
— Server group boot ordering
— VMware vSphere 4 support
— Non-HP server support: VM Hosts on Dell and IBM
— Windows 64-bit CMS support
• HP Insight Recovery software
HP Insight Recovery, also known as Insight Dynamics recovery management, is included
in HP Insight Dynamics for ProLiant. Insight Recovery provides a disaster recovery solution
for logical servers and extends the HP Insight Dynamics value of a common management
8 Enhancements