This release of the HP Storage Essentials management server for Windows provides the following options for installing the Storage Essentials management server:
IMPORTANT: The server must meet or exceed the minimum requirements listed in the support matrix for your edition.
•Integrated with Storage Essentials and HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) on separate servers (recommended)
As a best practice HP recommends installing the integrated product on separate servers. This installation option provides hardware and software health status polling, monitoring, and event management for storage, servers, switches, infrastructure, and other elements on your network such as enclosures, racks, clients and printers. In addition, HP SIM provides
See Installing Storage Essentials and HP Systems Insight Manager for Windows on Separate Servers, page 17 for steps on installing with this option.
•Integrated with HP Storage Essentials and HP Systems Insight Manager on the same server Installing Storage Essentials and HP SIM on the same server provides the same benefits provided with the recommended installation option, except that all of the components are installed on one server. This option has greater minimum system requirements. See the support matrix for details.
See Installing Storage Essentials and HP SIM for Windows on the Same Server, page 27 for steps on installing with this option.
•Standalone Option: HP Storage Essentials only installation
HP Storage Essentials is installed on a single server without the HP SIM and other integrated components. (This option is supported, but not recommended because it does not provide the full feature set provided by the integrated installation options.)
See ”Installing the Standalone Version of Storage Essentials for Windows” on page 34 for steps on installing with this option.
The Storage Essentials installation wizard checks your system to verify that it meets the basic system requirements and it automatically installs the required Oracle database instance and the following software: HP Storage Essentials, the HP SIM Connector, and HP Systems Insight Manager (note that the separate server installation option requires the manual installation of HP SIM on the designated HP SIM server).
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