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HP Insight Control suite for Linux (IC-LX) is an affordable solution to manage multi-system Linux environments of industry-standard
HP ProLiant servers with productivity for administrators in both Enterprise and Cluster environments. HP Insight Control for Linux integrates a robust feature set of the best of open source and HP technologies for discovery, imaging & provisioning, rapid deployment, health & performance management, remote management, virtualization, and power management. Open source software, such as Nagios® and
XEN®, are fully integrated and auto-configured for immediate user productivity. Full lifecycle management is complemented by multi-system scaling, power management, and direct-to-the-hardware control. HP Insight Control for Linux is backed by HP’s Linux expertise and global HP Support.
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HP Insight Control for Linux v6.00 provides
- Virtualization management for VMware® ESX & ESXi host installations,
- Capability for running HP Insight Control for Linux in a
XEN® virtual machine guest,
- Virtual Media support for installation in iLO-based servers without PXE/DHCP,
- Scaling enhancements for operation with 1000+ physical nodes,
- Easy-to-use performance management enhancements for at-a-glance summary views across large system environments from a variety of customizable metrics,
- Power management enhancements for Datacenter power control and Power monitoring,
- Firmware updating and Reporting improvements in HP Systems Insight Manager,
- Updated Linux operating system support (e.g. SLES 11, RHEL 5.4), and
- Broad HP ProLiant support for blade-, rack-, tower-, and scalable- servers (i.e. HP ProLiant BL-, DL-, ML-, SL- series servers; including IPMI, iLO, and iLO2 functionality).
- “Linux-managed Reference Platforms” are offered for Linux users in business-important environments. These bundled capabilities offer better value, better technology, better management , and better service for discerning Linux users. “Linux-managed Reference Platforms” provide the Linux OS and Linux management with high availability and virtualization, all covered by global HP Support.
- “Linux-managed Reference Platforms” combine the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL Advanced Platform) and the HP Insight Control for Linux (IC-LX) management suite with global HP Support. Red Hat’s RHEL on HP ProLiant & BladeSystem servers is the leading low-cost high-performance alternative to expensive legacy infrastructure. HP provides a simplified single source of support for server, OS, and management for the Linux user.
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Ideal for...
Linux-centric organizations managing complex growing environments with a variety of open source tools and utilities.
- Realize immediate productivity gains using an integrated suite of management tools, designed for Linux users to control Linux infrastructures of industry-standard x86 servers.
- Perform effective lifecycle management using robust Linux toolsets for discovery, rapid deployment, imaging & provisioning, firmware updates, health & performance management, virtualization (i.e. VMware® ,
XEN®), remote management, and power management.
- Remove guesswork from your infrastructure -- managing health using integrated & auto-configured Nagios® and managing performance using customizable tools designed to control large environments. Customize & extend your management capabilities using your own Nagios® plug-ins, CLI or GUI interfaces, or thresholds & alerts to an enterprise management system.
- Manage power and save resources using Dynamic Power Capping in HP’s industry-leading power management solution.
Teams, workgroups, and departments that flexibly manage clusters to enhance their output.
- Manage performance of clusters of servers, using the architected ‘avalanche’ mode for deployment and tiered management hubs for monitoring.
- Work ‘at scale’ in large-node environments using distributed Linux management of server groups & classes that allows for cloning of user-created images, remote deployment of OS, images or scripts, pre-defined management hub configurations, and integrated system firmware updates.
- Integrate health and performance management for large environments, including use of an 'at-a-glance' performance assessment from a wide variety of metrics across a large number of systems. Customization is supported by custom metrics and user extensions.
- Maximize performance-on-the-problem using lightweight out-of-band metrics collection (<<1% system usage) without compromising environment control.
Large organizations needing affordable productivity to manage business-important applications on Linux.
- Control your infrastructure using a tightly-integrated suite of core system management tools -- including capabilities to discover, deploy, image & provision, monitor, virtualize, and remotely manage industry-standard servers. Integrate health & performance management in your IT infrastructure, and set thresholds for sending alerts to your enterprise management systems.
- Scale deployment & provisioning with capabilities from bare metal discovery to firmware updates to performance provisioning modes -- with flexibility for scheduling and customization.
- Manage power to maximize resource utilization under environmental constraints, and grow your management technologies on the stable base of the HP Systems Insight Manager. Beyond basic capabilities like role-based access and reporting, HP integrates advanced technologies from HP’s experience with UNIX, Windows, and open source.
- Stabilize on “Linux-Managed Reference Platforms” for Linux OS and Linux management in a simplified solution with high availability, virtualization, and a single point of support through HP global services.
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