HP published on its website the latest version of the HP Insight software bundle including a new version of the Matrix Operating Environment 7.2. Nice to know is the availability of the new Insight Control Server Deployment software which will replace the good old RDP Rapid Deployment Pack based on Altiris. From now it is HP owned software based on HP Server Automation. Other new features good to know are SNMP v3 in HP SIM, latest hardware...

HP Insight control plugin for vCenter is the go-forward vCenter management integration plug-in for HP Storage including 3PAR. In addition to managing all HP block storage arrays, this vCenter plug-in also manages HP servers and Virtual Connect networking. HP Insight Control for VMware vCenter Server integrates with both VMware vSphere Client and VMware’s new vSphere Web Client. HP Insight Control for VMware vCenter enables the VMware...

This week HP released a new version of the Insight software which includes HP SIM, HP Insight Control and the HP Matrix Operating Environment. What’s New in Insight Management 7.1 – June 2012 ProLiant next-generation (Gen8) servers supported:  BL420c, BL465c, DL380e, DL360e, ML350e Database support for Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Unattended backup support HP Systems Insight Manager 7.1: Federated CMS advanced search Two-factor...

I was looking since a long time for a professional solution for the ESXi servers discovered in HP SIM, where the Major alert was generated by the 6 (out of 8) vmnics with a DOWN status. This is the case with HP G6 or G7 blades with Virtual Connect Flex10 or FlexFabric where not all 8 available NICs are connected to different networks. For instance in my case I have only vmnic 1 and vmnic2 connected to the full 10Gb connection. So I have 6...