HP Insight

Dynamics VSE
Bradford Nichols,
HP Enterprise Storage and Servers

Abstract

Insight Dynamics VSE 4.0 (ID-VSE) is the latest release in HPs 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

Capacity Advisor

Blade Enclosure, Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager and Virtual Machine

Management support
Consolidation scenario wizards
Power awareness

Logical Server

Rapid provisioning of Blade and VM contexts which can be easily moved within
the available resource pool

About the speaker

Bradford Nichols
Technical Consultant
HP Enterprise Storage and Servers
bradford.nichols@hp.com

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

2008 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.

The information contained herein is subject to change without notice

Agenda
Introducing

HP Insight Dynamics VSE

Demo

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

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?

Introducing HP Insight Dynamics VSE

What

for?

problem is HP providing a solution

Features

and Components of ID-VSE

Relationship

to Insight Control Suites

Relationship

to HP Integrity VSE

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
unpredictable
?
Few servers have
traditional HA
clustering

Too time
consuming
73% of
consolidations
took a year or
more1

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.

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

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

HP Insight Dynamics VSE and VSE

Suites delivered in convenient
packages

new
release

new

HP Insight Dynamics
VSE Suites for HP
ProLiant and
HP BladeSystem with
ProLiant blades

HP Virtual Server
Environment Suite
for HP Integrity

HP Insight software portfolio for

HP servers

HP Insight Dynamics
VSE Suite
for ProLiant and BladeSystem
ProLiant
Capacity planning
(CapAd)
Virtualization
management (Vman)
HP Insight Control Suites
for ProLiant and BladeSystem ProLiant Logical server
management (LSA)
Virtualization mgmt (VMM)
Power management (IPM)
Server migration P2P, V2P, V2V, P2V
Rapid server deployment (RDP)
(SMP Universal)
Performance management (PMP)
with Insight Control
Patch management (VPM)
Suite
Remote management
(iLO Adv for ML/DL / iLO Select for blades)
Central management (SIM)

HP VSE Suite
for Integrity (incl. blades)
Capacity planning
(CapAd)
Virtualization
management (Vman)
Logical server
management* (LSA)
Workload
management (GWLM
or HP-UX WLM)
Soft partitioning (HP
Integrity VM or vPar)

* Q109 for Integrity

HP Virtual Server Environment

for HP Integrity
HP Virtual Server Environment
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
Partitioning

Availability

Utility pricing

nPars

HP Serviceguard

HP Instant Capacity

vPars

HP Integrity
Virtual Machines

HP Serviceguard
Storage Mgmt Suite

HP Temporary
Instant Capacity

HP Metrocluster

HP Continentalclusters

HP Global
Instant Capacity

SGeRAC/SGeSAP

HP Pay Per Use

HP Secure Resource
Partitions

Virtual fabric: HP Virtual Connect

HP Restricted. HP and Channel Partner Internal Use.

HP Systems Insight Manager

HP-UX Central Management Server
HP-UX CMS
Integrity
Can
Manage

Integrity Servers

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.

HP Systems Insight Manager

Windows Central Management
Server
One common
console

ProLiant ML/DL

Can
Manage
Windows CMS on
ProLiant
Insight Essentials
HP Systems Insight
Manager

New: Windows
CMS supports
all current
Integrity tools

Note: VCEM
and LSM will be
only supported
Note: HP 9000 servers are also supported. on Windows
CMS

ProLiant Blades
Integrity Servers

Integrity Blades

Demo Part 1: A Virtualized

Infrastructure

System Insight
Manager (SIM)
BladeSystem Integrated
Manager

Virtual Machine
Management Pack
(VMM)

Virtual Connect
Enterprise Manager
(VCEM)

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?

HP Insight software portfolio for

HP servers

HP Insight Dynamics
VSE Suite

HP VSE Suite

for Integrity (incl. blades)

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

Demo

HP Insight Dynamics - VSE

Continuously analyze and optimize your infrastructure

Control physical and virtual

resources in the same way Virtualization Manager (VMAN
Real-time capacity planning

Capacity Advisor (CapAd)

for servers and power

Ease of migration (P2P, V2P, Server Migration Pack (SMP)
V2P, V2V)
Building on the value of
Bring the flexibility of
HP Systems
Insight Manager,
Logical
Servers
virtualization to physical
Insight Control and
servers
Virtual Server Environment
Addressing key data center issues:
cost, speed, quality and energy

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

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?

Demo

Physical and Virtual Perspective within Vman

Demo Part 3: Capacity Advisor

(CapAd)

Profiles: Historical
Utilization Data of
Servers

Scenarios: Projections
and Hypothetical
Configurations
Servers and Workloads
Forecasting
Limits
Solvers

Questions
How

many of you have server consolidation

projects to virtual machines planned or inprogress?

Of

those doing consolidations, what do you

currently use size replacement systems:
A spreadsheet?
A service from a vendor?
Other?

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

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Smart Solver
Automatically generate
plans for consolidation and
load balancing

Power Planning
Estimate the power
consumption of different
configurations

HP Insight Dynamics VSE:

Capacity planning to optimize
The new math: 8+8 = 12
utilization
8 Core Peak
Peaks for different workloads do

not all happen at the same time.

12 Core Peak

8 Core Peak

Two workloads each have an 8 CPU

peak demand but the peak of their
sum is 12 CPUs.

Demo

Demo Part 4: Server Migration

Pack (SMP)

Questions
How

many of you see a use for

P2V?
V2P?
V2V?
P2P?
Anyone

see V2P2V?

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?

HP Server Migration Pack

Universal
SMP UniversalEdition
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

SMP Universal How it works

Source Server or VM

Destination Server or
VM

SMP Universal Application Station

SIM Integration or Standalone

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

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?

Bring flexibility of virtualization to

Available for
physical servers
Integrity Q109
Logical server

HP Logical Server technology

OS Image
reference

A server profile that is easily

created and freely moved
across physical and virtual
machines

Configuration

requirement
s IDs
Unique

Logical servers can be:

Server

Server

Active physical blade servers

Active virtual machines

Virtual Fabric

OS image

Offline templates

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

Demo

Wrap-up
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HP Insight Dynamics - VSE

Continuously analyze and optimize your infrastructure

Control physical and virtual

resources in the same way Virtualization Manager (VMAN
Real-time capacity planning

Capacity Advisor (CapAd)

for servers and power

Ease of migration (P2P, V2P, Server Migration Pack (SMP)
V2P, V2V)
Building on the value of
Bring the flexibility of
HP Systems
Insight Manager,
Logical
Servers
virtualization to physical
Insight Control and
servers
Virtual Server Environment
Addressing key data center issues:
cost, speed, quality and energy

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
http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/12855_
na/12855_na.html

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

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.

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 Suites size, it isnt
necessarily so. But Logical Servers requires VMM
and VCEM. Also CapAd would utilizes VMM when
gather information about VMware hosts.

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 customers 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.