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 ToolsVirtualization Manager...

From the HP SIM Systems and Event Collections list in the left navigation area, choose

SystemsSharedSystems by TypeAll 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

6.2Software with Logical Server Management User Guide, available at http://www.hp.com/go/ insightdynamics/docs.

Logical servers

A logical 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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