Managing the growing number of servers can be complex and expensive for your organization. IT managers need to address changing business needs with tools that meet the challenges of managing today's complex Datacenters.
HP provides management solutions that are designed to simplify a server's installation, configuration and maintenance throughout the entire server lifecycle. This provides the customer with higher levels of operational efficiency and highly reliable systems: www.hp.com/go/foundation.
The foundation pack includes:
- HP SmartStart
- HP Management
- HP ProLiant Firmware Maintenance
SmartStart version supported (minimum): SmartStart 8.20.
http://www.hp.com/servers/smartstart
NOTE: In an effort to support reducing our environmental impact, the HP ProLiant Essentials Foundation Pack media will be available as a selectable option for this server at time of order of a CTO SKU. This will allow customers to order the number of media kits that best meet their needs and eliminate receiving unnecessary duplicate media.
HP ProLiant Onboard Administrator (powered by the HP Integrated Lights-Out 2 management processor) simplifies server setup, health monitoring, power and thermal control, and lights-out remote administration of ProLiant ML, DL, and BL servers. HP ProLiant Onboard Administrator functions without additional software, and can be accessed from any location via a web browser. It works hand-in-hand with HP Systems Insight Manager, Insight Control suites, and the Insight Dynamics-VSE suite helping customers unlock the value of the ProLiant platform and deliver the highest possible quality of IT service to the business. See www.hp.com/go/ProLiantOA
HP Insight Control suitesHP Insight Control suites, as product options, deliver essential infrastructure management that can help save time and money by making it easy to deploy, monitor, remote control, and optimize your IT infrastructure through a single, simple management console. Insight Control suites install and license software modules that are integrated into HP System Insight Manager.
Two Insight Control suites are available, to serve environments requiring either Linux-based or Windows-based management consoles: HP Insight Control suite for Linux, and HP Insight Control suite. See www.hp.com/go/insightcontrol
HP Insight Control suites include one year of 24 x 7 HP Software Technical Support and Update Service ensuring rapid access to HP support staff and proactive delivery of software updates. For more information about this service, please visit: http://www.hp.com/services/insight.
HP Insight Orchestration, an optional extension to Insight Dynamics, enables IT organizations to provision infrastructure consistently and automatically from pools of shared resources using a self-service portal. Resources provisioned can range from a single virtual machine to complex multi-tier environments and their associated physical and virtual resource requirements.
HP Insight Recovery, also an optional extension for Insight Dynamics - VSE, enables cost-effective disaster recovery for physical and virtual environments. Application environments can be reactivated in minutes with the touch of a button to a remote location
NOTE: For more information, visit:
http://www.hp.com/go/insightdynamics, http://www.hp.com/go/insightorchestration, http://www.hp.com/go/insightrecovery
