This 3-day course equips students with the skills and knowledge to configure and use several advanced features of HP Insight Control integrated management solution for physical and virtual servers. Students will spend the time learning, installing and configuring HP Insight Control capabilities to proactively manage system health through remote management tools. The course will focus on the integration of various options within HP Insight Control: power management, performance monitor, virtual machine management and server migration.
Target Audience:
This course is intended for administrators, engineers and consultants who will:
Plan and manage the deployment of the HP Insight Control suite components
Monitor and Manage network systems with HP Insight Control
Pre-requisites:
HP recommends that students have attained the following credentials or levels of experience before taking this course:
Introduction to HP Insight Control WBT (HK317AAE)
Recommended completion of HP Insight Foundation (HE643S)
Recommended completion of HP SIM Essentials (HK756S)
Familiarity with general networking terminology and basic network security concepts
An understanding of one of the following operating systems:
- Microsoft Windows 2003 Standard, 2003 Enterprise Edition, 2008 R2 Standard Edition, 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition or Windows 7: RedHat Enterprise Linux AS or RedHat Enterprise Linux ES & SuSE Linux Enterprise Server
Key Participant Benefits:
Gain the knowledge to successfully plan and deploy an enterprise-level HP Insight Control configuration
Use the hands-on activities to become familiar with tools and interfaces along with procedures for efficient ongoing management of the implementation
At Course Completion:
After completing this course, students will be able to:
Understand HP Insight Control power management Understand HP Insight Control performance monitor
Understand HP Insight Control virtual machine management
Understand HP Insight Control server migration Describe the integration of management applications
List the steps involved in configuring HP Insight Control power management, performance management, virtual machine management and server migration
Describe and configure management and monitoring capabilities for: HP Insight Control power management, performance management, virtual machine management and server migration
Describe HP Insight Control and HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM)
Identify how to find the new features included with HP Insight Control and HP SIM
Describe the features of the products and how each feature can be used to manage remote systems
List the components and applications that are required to manage a system.
Identify availability of software
Identify product resources
Describe warranty support for Windows, Linux and HP-UX
Lab: Configuring the Environment
Module 2: HP Insight Control power management
Lessons
Define HP Insight Control power management
Identify key HP Insight Control power management elements
Configure HP Insight Control power management
Lab: HP Insight Control power management
The HP Insight Control Advanced Topics course centers on the concepts of simplifying systems management. This lab is intended to introduce you to the idea of power management from a single-system and system group perspective.
Module 3: HP Insight Control performance monitor
Lessons
Define HP Insight Control performance monitor
Identify key HP Insight Control performance monitor elements
Configure HP Insight Control performance monitor
Lab: HP Insight Control performance monitor
The HP Insight Control Advanced Topics course centers on the concepts of simplifying systems management. This lab is intended to introduce you to the idea of server performance monitoring and management, including identifying performance issues and likely solutions to them.
Module 4: HP Insight Control virtual machine management
Define HP Insight Control virtual machine management
Identify key HP Insight Control virtual machine management elements
Configure HP Insight Control virtual machine management
Module 5: HP Insight Control server migration
Lessons
Define HP Insight Control server migration
Identify key HP Insight Control server migration elements
Configure HP Insight Control server migration
Lab: HP Insight Control virtual machine management and server migration
The HP Insight Control Advanced Topics course centres on the concepts of simplifying systems management. This lab is intended to introduce you to the ideas of virtual machine management and server migration between unlike platforms. This lab combines elements of both virtual machine host management, migration of physical servers to virtual machines, virtual machine management and virtual machine host layer to unlike virtual machine host layer migration.
