HP OneView Management Packs

Could managing your HP ProLiant servers, BladeSystem Enclosures, and HP Virtual Connect with a single, effective product be a benefit to you? HP OneView for Microsoft System Center (previously known as HP Insight Control for Microsoft System Center) provides seamless integration of the unique HP ProLiant and HP BladeSystem manageability features into Microsoft System Center. Licensed with HP OneView and HP Insight Control, these extensions deliver comprehensive system health and alerting, driver and firmware updates, OS deployment, detailed inventory, and HP fabric visualization.

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.

What's new

• ProLiant Gen9 server support for health monitoring via HP ProLiant (Windows), Linux and Agentless management packs in SCOM
• ProLiant Gen9 server support for OS deployment (SCCM and SCVMM) and Inventory (SCCM)
• ProLiant Gen9 server support for server software and firmware updates via HP ProLiant Updates Catalog (SCCM and SCVMM)
• HP Virtual Connect FlexFabric-20/40 F8 Module support for health monitoring via HP OneView Management Pack for SCOM
• HP Virtual Connect FlexFabric-20/40 F8 Module support for infrastructure visualization via HP SCVMM 2012 Console Kit (HP Fabric Management Add-in)
• New product installation interface simplifies installation

Features:

Support for System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)

HP OneView for Microsoft System Center prevents problems from occurring by proactively monitoring and managing hardware health and intelligently responding to hardware events on servers running Windows and Linux, as well as BladeSystem Enclosures and HP Virtual Connect.

Use HP OneView for Microsoft System Center to manage the health of HP ProLiant Gen8 and Gen9 servers without the need for loading OS-based SNMP agents or WBEM providers.

HP OneView for Microsoft System Center can also be used to monitor the health of servers that do not have an OS yet loaded, as well as ProLiant Gen8 and Gen9 servers running any operating system that has a supported Agentless Monitoring Service (such as VMware ESXi).

Fully integrated into System Center means one less tool to learn and manage.

Support for System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM)

HP OneView for Microsoft System Center provides end to end HP fabric visualization for virtualized environments using HP Virtual Connect to view from the VM to the edge of the network configuration information.

Provides enhanced provisioning using HP OneView server profiles to deploy Hyper-V hosts consistently and reliably, including configuration of Windows® networking, HP Virtual Connect, and shared SAN storage.

Facilitates consistency and improve uptime with simplified driver and firmware updates via a rotating, automated workflow for Hyper-V clusters using the HP ProLiant Updates Catalog.

Support for System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)

HP OneView for Microsoft System Center provides quick and reliable Windows deployment to bare metal HP servers, including pre-deployment hardware and BIOS configuration, and post-OS HP driver and agent installation.

You can verify consistency and improve uptime with simplified Windows driver and firmware updates using the HP ProLiant Updates Catalog.

Provides detailed component level inventory of every managed HP Windows server using the HP ProLiant Inventory Tool.