HP Insight Dynamics 6.0 Update 1 Release Notes

You can run this wizard at any time to change the configuration or management features
of your systems.
• Scalability
— CMS: x64-bit 24G (or above) with remote database (4-core 16G or above)
— Managed systems: 1500
— Concurrent users: 15 concurrent users running general operations and one Admin task
— Virtual machines: 70 VM hosts; see VMware technical documentation for specific
guidelines on number of supported guests per host
— Monitoring: Simultaneously analyze 2000 monitored nodes
— Disaster recovery: Failover support for 250 logical servers
— Logical servers: 1500 managed nodes with 60 overlapping provisions of one logical
server each, and 6 overlapping provisions of 5 logical servers each
— Capacity Advisor: Collect capacity planning data for 1500 managed systems
◦ Automated recommendations for 500 workloads in less than 15 minutes
◦ Detailed reports for 150 systems in less than 15 minutes
◦ Summary reports for 1000 systems in less than 10 minutes
• Installation
The HP Insight Dynamics 6.0 installer and vseinitconfig include support for a 64-bit
CMS and a 32-bit CMS.
Agent installation is performed using the new Insight managed system setup wizard. Agent
installation menu options are removed.
Open source code (GPL and LGPL licenses) used by the HP Insight Dynamics software is
included in zipped format on the Insight Software DVD. See the HP Insight Software 6.0
Release Notes at www.hp.com/go/insightsoftware/docs for more information.
• Application Discovery
Application Discovery inventories applications in a network, and allows you to centrally
monitor application activity. In combination with HP Insight Virtualization Manager software,
Application Discovery allows you to group running processes into applications that can be
added to a workload for more comprehensive resource management. This release provides
increased scalability and defect fixes.
• HP Insight Capacity Advisor software
Capacity Advisor provides capacity analysis and planning software that allows you to
anticipate changes needed to optimize workloads across your virtual server environment
for the best utilization of server resources. New in this release:
— The ability to collect utilization data from Linux standalone x86/x64 servers without
installing an agent or provider. However, the Utilization Provider is still required for
automatic power calibration on Integrity systems.
— Additional metrics appearing in several new reports, including cost allocation for
resources on VM hosts and standalone servers, peak consumption, server populations,
and consolidation candidates.
— The ability to export most reports as Excel CSV files.
— The ability to recognize, model, and otherwise account for a VMware DRS cluster,
treating VMware clusters as single entities.
— 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.
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