1. HP Insight Dynamics - VSE Bradford Nichols, HP Enterprise Storage and Servers

2. Abstract
Insight Dynamics – VSE 4.0 (ID-VSE) is the latest release in HP’s server virtualization management software. It combines the scope and maturity of previous Virtual Server Environment (VSE) offerings of Integrity Servers with integration into the latest capabilities of the popular Insight Control Environment of products for ProLiant Servers. This talk will provide an overview of the features in Virtual Server Environment product for ProLiant and Integrity Servers, and then include a demo of some of the significant new features in the ID-VSE 4.0 release;
Support for a Windows CMS
Virtualization Manager
Blade Enclosure, Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager and Virtual Machine Management support
Capacity Advisor
Consolidation scenario wizards
Power awareness
Logical Server
Rapid provisioning of Blade and VM contexts which can be easily moved within the available resource pool

3. About the speaker Bradford Nichols Technical Consultant
HP Enterprise Storage and Servers

4. HP Insight Dynamics – VSE
Optimize server utilization in real time
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Bradford Nichols, HP September 2008

5. Agenda Introducing HP Insight Dynamics – VSE Demo Wrap-up
Part 1: A Virtualized Infrastructure
Part 2: Virtualization Manager (Vman)
Part 3: Capacity Advisor (CapAd)
Part 4: Server Migration Pack (SMP)
Part 5: Logical Servers
Wrap-up
Answers to Q&A

6. Questions How many of you are involved in server management:
specification, installation, provisioning and on-going maintenance?
Which of the following are key interests where you work:
Reducing time to roll out new servers in response to requests?
Reducing costs by better utilizing server resources or right sizing them in the first place?
Increasing responsiveness to changes in server landscape: sizing, p2v, v2p etc.?
All of the above?
How many of you have physical and virtual servers in your environment?

7. Introducing HP Insight Dynamics - VSE
What problem is HP providing a solution for?
Features and Components of ID-VSE
Relationship to Insight Control Suites
Relationship to HP Integrity VSE

8. Does your infrastructure get in the way of better business outcomes?
Too costly?
Sprawl is expensive – virtual servers are growing much faster than physical servers
Too time consuming 73% of consolidations took a year or more1
The complexity of today’s IT infrastructure puts pressure on IT as it strives to deliver and even drive the business. Here are some common issues that we hear from our customers
The number of virtual servers is expanding very rapidly, because they are so easy and quick to deploy. In fact virtual servers are growing by some estimates at 4 times the rate of physical servers, leading to virtual server sprawl and management complexity and overhead; Infrastructure is costly to manage and underutilized -- average server utilization 5-20% (Source: multiple, commonly accepted industry metric);
Infrastructure consolidation projects are time consuming, according to a survey of IT executives and managers, 73% of consolidations took a year or more (Source: How Large Enterprises Approach IT Infrastructure Consolidation Forrester Research, Inc., December 2007 )
The number of servers that are protected by robust HA solutions is actually only a small percentage of the overall server infrastructure, leaving many vulnerable, and leading to unpredictability in terms of service levels and uptime for certain applications.
Infrastructure is too energy hungry -- Data center electricity use has more than doubled since 2000 (Stanford Univ. study:
Do these concerns resonate with you?
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Too unpredictable? Few servers have traditional HA clustering
Too energy hungry? Data center electricity use more than doubled since 2000
1. IT executive and managers survey: Forrester Research, Inc: How Large Enterprises Approach IT Infrastructure Consolidation December 2007
HP Restricted. HP and Channel Partner Internal Use.

9. HP Insight Dynamics - VSE
Continuously analyze and optimize your infrastructure
Control physical and virtual resources in the same way
Real-time capacity planning for servers and power
Ease of migration (P2P, V2P, V2P, V2V)
Bring the flexibility of virtualization to physical servers
HP Insight Dynamics - VSE is a new class of integrated management software to continuously analyze and optimize your adaptive infrastructure.
It provides a toolkit to accelerate complex IT projects, simplify daily operations and proactively manage data center capacity
HP Insight Dynamics - VSE - Lets administrators manage virtual and physical resources in the same way.
HP Insight Dynamics - VSE provides a single screen view to manage all available virtual and physical resources, including hypervisors from multiple vendors. Data center administrators can view the big picture or obtain a detailed view of a single resource within the same screen without switching tools.  By consolidating management tools and standardizing organizational processes, the software dramatically improves administrator productivity.
It is the world’s first integrated solution to visualize, plan and change physical and virtual resources in exactly the same way.
It offers industry’s most advanced real-time capacity planning tool that analyzes server capacity and power usage.
HP Insight Dynamics - VSE also will offer the industry’s most advanced real-time capacity planning tool, using “Smart Solver” technology from HP Labs.  It analyzes server capacity and power usage based on thousands of historical data points.  The software eliminates months of capacity planning and guesswork, enabling administrators to confidently predict infrastructure requirements.
HP Server Migration Pack – Universal Edition 3.0 – Meets all of your HP ProLiant and BladeSystem migration needs
P2P – Physical to ProLiant or BladeSystem servers
P2V – Physical to multiple virtualization technologies (VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix Xen) <- Verify this ?????
V2P – Virtual to ProLiant
V2V – Convert VMs between virtualization platforms <- Verify this, which ones supported ???
SMP-U may be run as a stand alone product or invoked from SIM
HP Insight Dynamics - VSE brings the freedom and flexibility of virtualization to physical servers.
With breakthrough “logical server” technology, the software brings the key benefits of virtual machines to physical HP platforms so the technology infrastructure can better adapt to business demands.  By detaching the logical identity from the physical server, logical servers are easily provisioned and freely moved across the infrastructure, independent of whether they are physical or virtual. 
HP Insight Dynamics - VSE is based on proven technologies such as HP Virtual Server Environment, HP Insight Control, and HP Virtual Connect. The new software seamlessly plugs into HP Systems Insight Manager, the industry’s most popular platform management tool.
By making change more predictive and easier to manage, HP Insight Dynamics - VSE advances HP’s Adaptive Infrastructure strategy for helping businesses build next-generation data centers. It addresses key data center pain points of cost, speed, quality and energy, helping you build better business outcomes.
Building on the value of HP Systems Insight Manager, Insight Control and Virtual Server Environment
Addressing key data center issues: cost, speed, quality and energy

10. HP Virtual Server Environment Suite for HP Integrity
HP Insight Dynamics – VSE and VSE Suites delivered in convenient packages
HP Insight Software
HP Insight Software
new
HP Insight Software
HP ID-VSE and VSE 4.0 are the base product technology targeted towards two different platforms with slight differences in feature availability between these to offerings.   Virtual Server Environment software that has been running successfully in mission critical environment on the Integrity and PA-RISC platforms for years.  VSE 4.0 is basically the latest  version of this software with many enhancements, including those to the Virtualization Manager, Capacity Advisor, and Global Workload Manager to highlight a few. 
ID-VSE brings much of this functionality to the ProLiant and BladeSystem platforms as well as introducing some new technology (Logical
Servers).  Logical Servers will be available on the HP-UX/Integrity platforms in Q4 of 2008.
new release
HP Insight Dynamics – VSE Suites for HP ProLiant and HP BladeSystem with ProLiant blades
HP Virtual Server Environment Suite for HP Integrity

11. HP Insight software portfolio for HP servers
HP Insight Dynamics – VSE Suite
for ProLiant and BladeSystem ProLiant
HP VSE Suite
for Integrity (incl. blades)
Capacity planning (CapAd)
Virtualization management (Vman)
Logical server management (LSA)
Server migration - P2P, V2P, V2V, P2V (SMP Universal)
with Insight Control Suite
Capacity planning (CapAd)
Virtualization management (Vman)
Logical server management* (LSA)
Workload management (GWLM or HP-UX WLM)
Soft partitioning (HP Integrity VM or vPar)
HP Insight Control Suites for ProLiant and BladeSystem ProLiant
Virtualization mgmt (VMM)
Power management (IPM)
Rapid server deployment (RDP)
Performance management (PMP)
Patch management (VPM)
Remote management (iLO Adv for ML/DL / iLO Select for blades)
Central management (SIM)
* Q109 for Integrity

12. HP Virtual Server Environment for HP Integrity
Intelligent control: including Insight Dynamics – VSE functionality
HP Systems Insight Manager
HP Capacity Advisor
HP Virtualization Manager
HP Global Workload Manager HP-UX Workload Manager
Integrated by design
Virtual servers
Objectives:
Provides a snapshot of HP’s specific VSE solution for Integrity Servers components
Notes:
Let’s take a look at the specific solution HP offers.
HP Systems Insight Manager is the central console for the planning, integration, configuration and automation of your virtualized environment. SIM is integrated with Capacity Advisor and Virtualization Manager, as well as Workload Manager
We have partitioning capability with virtual machines, which we’ll discuss in a moment
For Availability – SG as well as other products
We offer three utility pricing solutions, including pay-per-use as well as instant capacity, allowing you to add resources as you grow, and temporary instant capacity, for systems with high levels of demand fluctuation.
HP offers attractive licensing terms for HP-UX 11i in virtualized systems
These solutions take the complexity out of managing a virtualized environment.
In the rest of this presentation, we will look closely at the details of the VSE solution.
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Partitioning
Availability
Utility pricing
nPars
vPars
HP Integrity Virtual Machines
HP Secure Resource Partitions
HP Serviceguard
HP Serviceguard Storage Mgmt Suite
HP Metrocluster
HP Continentalclusters
SGeRAC/SGeSAP
HP Instant Capacity
HP Temporary Instant Capacity
HP Global Instant Capacity
HP Pay Per Use
Virtual fabric: HP Virtual Connect
HP Restricted. HP and Channel Partner Internal Use.

13. HP Systems Insight Manager HP-UX Central Management Server
HP-UX CMS Integrity
Can Manage
Integrity Servers
Previously for the HP-UX and Integrity platforms, the CMS (Central Management Server) was only supported on HP-UX. It is still supported on HP-UX, and you can manage Integrity servers or Integrity Blades.
Integrity Blades
Managed from a common console
Integrity Essentials
HP Systems Insight Manager
Note: no plans to support VCEM, logical server capability or RDP from HP-UX-based CMS.
Note: HP 9000 servers are also supported.

14. HP Systems Insight Manager Windows Central Management Server
One common console
ProLiant ML/DL
Can Manage
ProLiant Blades
With the introduction of ID-VSE and the new release of the Virtual Server Environment for HP-UX/Integrity (VSE 4.0), the CMS is now supported on a Windows server.
The Ignite UX server needs to be a separate server.
Integrity Servers
New: Windows CMS supports all current Integrity tools
Note: VCEM and LSM will be only supported on Windows CMS
Integrity Blades
Windows CMS on ProLiant
Insight Essentials
HP Systems Insight Manager
Note: HP 9000 servers are also supported.

15. Demo Part 1: A Virtualized Infrastructure
System Insight Manager (SIM)
BladeSystem Integrated Manager
Virtual Machine Management Pack (VMM)
Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager (VCEM)

16. Questions
How many of you are currently using HP c7000 blade enclosures?
Virtual Connect?
How many have deployed VMware virtual machines?
How many of you use HP System Insight Manager?

17. HP Insight software portfolio for HP servers
HP Insight Dynamics – VSE Suite
for ProLiant and BladeSystem ProLiant
HP VSE Suite
for Integrity (incl. blades)
Capacity planning (CapAd)
Virtualization management (Vman)
Logical server management (Vman)
Server migration - P2P, V2P, V2V, P2V (SMP Universal)
with Insight Control Suite
Capacity planning (CapAd)
Virtualization management (Vman)
Logical server management* (Vman)
Workload management (GWLM or HP-UX WLM)
Soft partitioning (HP Integrity VM or vPar)
HP Insight Control Suites for ProLiant and BladeSystem ProLiant
Virtualization mgmt (VMM)
Power management (IPM)
Rapid server deployment (RDP)
Performance management (PMP)
Patch management (VPM)
Remote management (iLO Adv for ML/DL / iLO Select for blades)
Central management (SIM)
Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager (VCEM)
* Q109 for Integrity

18. Demo

19. HP Insight Dynamics - VSE
Continuously analyze and optimize your infrastructure
Control physical and virtual resources in the same way
Real-time capacity planning for servers and power
Ease of migration (P2P, V2P, V2P, V2V)
Bring the flexibility of virtualization to physical servers
Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
Capacity Advisor (CapAd)
Server Migration Pack (SMP)
HP Insight Dynamics - VSE is a new class of integrated management software to continuously analyze and optimize your adaptive infrastructure.
It provides a toolkit to accelerate complex IT projects, simplify daily operations and proactively manage data center capacity
HP Insight Dynamics - VSE - Lets administrators manage virtual and physical resources in the same way.
HP Insight Dynamics - VSE provides a single screen view to manage all available virtual and physical resources, including hypervisors from multiple vendors. Data center administrators can view the big picture or obtain a detailed view of a single resource within the same screen without switching tools.  By consolidating management tools and standardizing organizational processes, the software dramatically improves administrator productivity.
It is the world’s first integrated solution to visualize, plan and change physical and virtual resources in exactly the same way.
It offers industry’s most advanced real-time capacity planning tool that analyzes server capacity and power usage.
HP Insight Dynamics - VSE also will offer the industry’s most advanced real-time capacity planning tool, using “Smart Solver” technology from HP Labs.  It analyzes server capacity and power usage based on thousands of historical data points.  The software eliminates months of capacity planning and guesswork, enabling administrators to confidently predict infrastructure requirements.
HP Server Migration Pack – Universal Edition 3.0 – Meets all of your HP ProLiant and BladeSystem migration needs
P2P – Physical to ProLiant or BladeSystem servers
P2V – Physical to multiple virtualization technologies (VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix Xen) <- Verify this ?????
V2P – Virtual to ProLiant
V2V – Convert VMs between virtualization platforms <- Verify this, which ones supported ???
SMP-U may be run as a stand alone product or invoked from SIM
HP Insight Dynamics - VSE brings the freedom and flexibility of virtualization to physical servers.
With breakthrough “logical server” technology, the software brings the key benefits of virtual machines to physical HP platforms so the technology infrastructure can better adapt to business demands.  By detaching the logical identity from the physical server, logical servers are easily provisioned and freely moved across the infrastructure, independent of whether they are physical or virtual. 
HP Insight Dynamics - VSE is based on proven technologies such as HP Virtual Server Environment, HP Insight Control, and HP Virtual Connect. The new software seamlessly plugs into HP Systems Insight Manager, the industry’s most popular platform management tool.
By making change more predictive and easier to manage, HP Insight Dynamics - VSE advances HP’s Adaptive Infrastructure strategy for helping businesses build next-generation data centers. It addresses key data center pain points of cost, speed, quality and energy, helping you build better business outcomes.
Building on the value of HP Systems Insight Manager, Insight Control and Virtual Server Environment
Logical Servers
Addressing key data center issues: cost, speed, quality and energy

20. Demo Part 2: Virtualization Manager (Vman)
Graphical hierarchical View of Infrastructure
Enclosures
Blades
Virtual Machine Hosts
Virtual Machine Guests
ProLiant and Integrity
Status
Event icons
Performance meters
Power meter
Quick launch of relevant tools

21. Questions
What do you currently use to visualize the state of your server infrastructure?
A viso diagram
VMware Virtual Center
HP System Insight Manager
Other
How many windows or tools do you have open to get events, performance management tool access?

22. Demo

23. Physical and Virtual Perspective within Vman

24. Demo Part 3: Capacity Advisor (CapAd)
Profiles: Historical Utilization Data of Servers
Scenarios: Projections and Hypothetical Configurations
Servers and Workloads
Forecasting
Limits
Solvers

25. Questions
How many of you have server consolidation projects to virtual machines planned or in-progress?
Of those doing consolidations, what do you currently use size replacement systems:
A spreadsheet?
A service from a vendor?
Other?

26. HP Capacity Advisor Utilization Calculator
moving workloads adds and subtracts
workloads can be multiplied by a constant to reflect expected growth
Simple data collection
Uses standard WBEM
Automatic nightly data collection
Integration with VSE features
SG failover planning
VM planning
gWLM estimating
Smart Solver
Automatically generate plans for consolidation and load balancing
Power Planning
Estimate the power consumption of different configurations
Easy to use
The bullet about “Integrates VSE features” may need a little clarification. I think the others are pretty well self explanatory.
Capacity Advisor is integrated with Serviceguard (i.e. knows about SG packages), and can track utilization data for these packages across failovers. Therefore, within the “what-if” scenario editor, you can move these packages or workloads to other systems (existing or ones you create in the scenario editor) in order to simulate a failover. The same is true for estimating usage due to resource sharing that is automated by gWLM. Within the scenario editor, you can manually move resources to “simulate” what gWLM would do.
Capacity Advisor is different from most other tools that measure CPU utilization data for virtual machines. Capacity Advisor actually tracks the physical CPU usage and not just the “virtual CPU” usage. This allows you to do a much more accurate analysis of VM resource utilization. 26
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27. HP Insight Dynamics – VSE: Capacity planning to optimize utilization
The new math: 8+8 = 12
8 Core Peak
Peaks for different workloads do not all happen at the same time.
12 Core Peak
Use this version of the slide for an ID-VSE presentation
Here two workloads from real production servers are graphed. They both have a peak of nearly 8 CPUs.
The graphs are made of about 8000 readings gathered every 5 minutes. The Sum on the right is made by summing the corresponding 5 minute readings.
The sum of peaks will always be greater than, or equal, to the peak of the sum. This systematic error can lead to over provisioning.
This data is from two actual production systems running inside HP. + =
8 Core Peak
Two workloads each have an 8 CPU peak demand but the peak of their sum is 12 CPUs.

28. Demo

29. Demo Part 4: Server Migration Pack (SMP)

30. Questions How many of you see a use for Anyone see V2P2V? P2V? V2P?
P2P?
Anyone see V2P2V?

31. The New Server Problem
Replacing an old server with a new physical server?
How long, and how many experts does it take to:
lay down an operating system?
implement security?
install application and configure?
quality assurance and validation?
Replacing old servers with virtual machines?
Does your migration tool support multiple virtualization platforms?
Can it migrate a VM back to physical if needed?
Do you have time to learn multiple tools?
Some reasons why customers don’t leave servers
App experts gone
Apps are tough to reconfigure

32. HP Server Migration Pack – Universal Edition
SMP Universal meets all your HP ProLiant and BladeSystem migration needs
Physical to ProLiant (P2P)
New HP ProLiant or HP BladeSystem servers
Virtual to ProLiant (V2P)
Migrate VMs back to standalone servers
Physical to Virtual (P2V)
Supports multiple virtualization platforms
Virtual to Virtual (V2V)
Convert VMs between virtualization platforms
Supported Migration Types
• Physical-to-ProLiant (P2P) — Migrates a physical machine to a ProLiant server
• Physical-to-virtual (P2V) — Migrates a physical machine to a virtual machine within a
Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 or VMware virtual machine host
• Virtual-to-ProLiant (V2P) — Migrates a virtual machine guest within a Microsoft Virtual
Server 2005 or VMware virtual machine host to a ProLiant server
• Virtual-to-virtual (V2V) — Migrates a virtual machine guest between different virtualization
layers, including Microsoft Virtual Server 2005, VMware ESX Server, VMware Server, and
VMware GSX Server

33. SMP Universal – How it works
Source Server or VM
Destination Server or VM
The migration consists of 3 components
The central application station
The Source server being migrated
And the bare metal destination server
The migration is as easy (Example of a P2P migration)
Install the P2P application on the central application station
Run the P2P agent on the source server
Boot the destination server with the bootable P2P CD
Run the migration wizard from the application station
SMP Universal installation and set up takes just a few easy steps:
Install the simple, browser based SMP Universal application station. This will be the point at which the user will initiate the migration. SMP Universal can be installed on your HP Systems Insight Manager management server, but does not need to be installed on a server class machine. It can even be run from a laptop.
Load the lightweight SMP Universal agent on the source server. This is the physical server or VM host that the migration will be FROM.
If the destination server is a new HP ProLiant or BladeSystem server, simply boot the bare metal server with the included SMP Universal Boot CD. No need to install an operating system, application, or security. This can even be done remotely using HP iLO virtual media.
If the destination server is a virtual machine, simply load the VM Host SMP Universal agent on the VM host where you want the new virtual machine created.
Once an SMP Universal agent is running on the source and destination, a migration can be initiated from the SMP Universal Application.
SMP Universal Application Station

34. SIM Integration or Standalone
SMP-Universal can be run as a stand alone utility or invoked from SIM.

35. Demo Part 5: Logical Servers
Definition of a Server that can be mapped dynamically to a Blade or Virtual Machine
Rapid response to the request for a new server
Templating commonly requested server configs
Flexible migration of servers
New use cases leveraging activation and deactivation

36. Questions
What is the longest aspect of rolling out new servers for you:
Closing on requirements?
Searching to see if resources already exist that can be re-provisioned?
Cabling and wiring into the infrastructure (virtual or physical)?
Is efficiently managing Physical servers as well as Virtual ones a concern?

37. Bring flexibility of virtualization to physical servers
Available for Integrity Q1’09
OS Image
reference
Configuration requirements
Unique IDs
Logical server
HP Logical Server technology
A server profile that is easily created and freely moved across physical and virtual machines
Logical servers can be:
Active physical blade servers
Active virtual machines
Offline templates
HP Logical capability offers the same mobility and flexibility to physical blade servers you are used to from virtual machines – we call that logical server capability. Logical server capability enables physical and virtual server identities to be managed as one and to be easily provisioned and freely moved. This new functionality will leverage the HP BladeSystem and Virtual Connect technologies.
Logical servers can be easily applied to a physical blade server or a virtual machines. Deactivated logical servers can be stored in templates, which are ready to go when they are needed again.
Logical servers can be managed through an easy to use interface, which allows to create them, copy them, activate them, de-activate them, edit them, migrate them, etc.
The activation time required is basically the boot time.
Server
Server
Virtual Fabric
OS image

38. Logical server management
Logical servers can be provisioned via templates and freely adjusted and migrated
Bring logical servers on-line quickly for increased capacity, new projects or server recovery
Shorten maintenance window by rapidly moving server profiles
Drag and drop capabilities to move logical servers
HP Logical capability offers the same mobility and flexibility to physical blade servers you are used to from virtual machines – we call that logical server capability. Logical server capability enables physical and virtual server identities to be managed as one and to be easily provisioned and freely moved. This new functionality will leverage the HP BladeSystem and Virtual Connect technologies.
Logical servers can be easily applied to a physical blade server or a virtual machines. Deactivated logical servers can be stored in templates, which are ready to go when they are needed again.
Logical servers can be managed through an easy to use interface, which allows to create them, copy them, activate them, de-activate them, edit them, migrate them, etc.
The activation time required is basically the boot time.

39. Demo

40. Wrap-up /

41. HP Insight Dynamics - VSE
Continuously analyze and optimize your infrastructure
Control physical and virtual resources in the same way
Real-time capacity planning for servers and power
Ease of migration (P2P, V2P, V2P, V2V)
Bring the flexibility of virtualization to physical servers
Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
Capacity Advisor (CapAd)
Server Migration Pack (SMP)
HP Insight Dynamics - VSE is a new class of integrated management software to continuously analyze and optimize your adaptive infrastructure.
It provides a toolkit to accelerate complex IT projects, simplify daily operations and proactively manage data center capacity
HP Insight Dynamics - VSE - Lets administrators manage virtual and physical resources in the same way.
HP Insight Dynamics - VSE provides a single screen view to manage all available virtual and physical resources, including hypervisors from multiple vendors. Data center administrators can view the big picture or obtain a detailed view of a single resource within the same screen without switching tools.  By consolidating management tools and standardizing organizational processes, the software dramatically improves administrator productivity.
It is the world’s first integrated solution to visualize, plan and change physical and virtual resources in exactly the same way.
It offers industry’s most advanced real-time capacity planning tool that analyzes server capacity and power usage.
HP Insight Dynamics - VSE also will offer the industry’s most advanced real-time capacity planning tool, using “Smart Solver” technology from HP Labs.  It analyzes server capacity and power usage based on thousands of historical data points.  The software eliminates months of capacity planning and guesswork, enabling administrators to confidently predict infrastructure requirements.
HP Server Migration Pack – Universal Edition 3.0 – Meets all of your HP ProLiant and BladeSystem migration needs
P2P – Physical to ProLiant or BladeSystem servers
P2V – Physical to multiple virtualization technologies (VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix Xen) <- Verify this ?????
V2P – Virtual to ProLiant
V2V – Convert VMs between virtualization platforms <- Verify this, which ones supported ???
SMP-U may be run as a stand alone product or invoked from SIM
HP Insight Dynamics - VSE brings the freedom and flexibility of virtualization to physical servers.
With breakthrough “logical server” technology, the software brings the key benefits of virtual machines to physical HP platforms so the technology infrastructure can better adapt to business demands.  By detaching the logical identity from the physical server, logical servers are easily provisioned and freely moved across the infrastructure, independent of whether they are physical or virtual. 
HP Insight Dynamics - VSE is based on proven technologies such as HP Virtual Server Environment, HP Insight Control, and HP Virtual Connect. The new software seamlessly plugs into HP Systems Insight Manager, the industry’s most popular platform management tool.
By making change more predictive and easier to manage, HP Insight Dynamics - VSE advances HP’s Adaptive Infrastructure strategy for helping businesses build next-generation data centers. It addresses key data center pain points of cost, speed, quality and energy, helping you build better business outcomes.
Building on the value of HP Systems Insight Manager, Insight Control and Virtual Server Environment
Logical Servers
Addressing key data center issues: cost, speed, quality and energy

42. Questions? ( 1 of ) What Operating Systems are supported with SMP-U?
The currently released version of SMP-U is 3.5. In this version the supported source system OSs are Windows variants, in the case of a VtoX the source VM hosts are VMware, Xen and MS Virtual Server.
The OS on the target server (if it exists) is not important because SMP provides a bootable image for its agent on the target. In the case of a migration to VM the supported target VM Hosts are VMware, Xen and MS Virtual Server.
For specific details, the quick spec for the v3.5 version of the product is online at

43. Are integrity blades supported as logical servers?
Questions? (2 of
Are integrity blades supported as logical servers?  
In the current ID-VSE 4.0 release they are not. But the plan is to support them in the next release which is planned for Q109. See you can contact your HP rep for a formal NDA roadmap if you need more details.
Note that today Integrity Blades, HP-UX and HP Integrity Virtual Machines are fully supported in the Virtualization Manager and Capacity Advisor components of the ID-VSE 4.0 product

44. Questions? (3 of
Can Capacity Advisor work for an all Dell installed base?
Used in an on-going fashion CapacityAdvisor is not intended for use with non-HP platforms. The licensing scheme is based on HP platforms and a platform-type check is made in the SIM CMS licensing mechanism when licenses are applied.
That being said, CapacityAdvisor does have some low-level mechanisms to import historical performance data that is in ascii format independent of any platform-type labeling. These could be used to do a one time import of historical for purposes of a consolidation project of non-HP platforms to HP servers. Typically in this case, the tool would be used by HP services as part of a project on behalf of a customer. If this is of further interest I suggest you contact me or the local HP services delivery contact in your area.

45. Can virtualization manager be utilized w/o SIM?
Questions? (4 of
Can virtualization manager be utilized w/o SIM?
Virtualization Manager is only available as a plug in to SIM. The support SIM Server OS options are HP-UX or x86 Windows.
Vman itself has no real dependencies in the Insight Control Suite other then SIM. So if you are concerned about a lot of complexity to set Vman up due to the Insight Suite’s size, it isn’t necessarily so.  But Logical Servers requires VMM and VCEM.  Also CapAd would utilizes VMM when gather information about VMware hosts.

46. Questions? (5 of 5)
How would be an answer to customer's question - what VSE does offer which is not in Vmware's Vmotion/HA?
The short answer is ID-VSE is not a replacement for VMware and its features.
ID-VSE adds additional features to a customer’s ProLiant environment with VMware;
The ability to view and manage both physical and virtual aspects of your environment from a single interface (Virtualization Manager). From this tool integrated in SIM you get low-level server hardware characteristics and events right up through Virtual Machine visibility and control and everything in between.
An integrated full featured, directly accessible to the user capacity monitoring and planning tool – Capacity Advisor. The Capacity Advisor tool works for physical bare-iron server, vm host servers and vms.
The ability to “Virtualize” physical blades in an enclosure much in the same way as vms are virtualized on a vm host. This is done using ID-VSE logical servers. When blades are logical servers, they (their context or settings like SAN and MAC addresses) can be templated, assigned, moved, much like a Virtual Machine.