HP Insight Control Advanced Topics

Course overview

This 2-day course equips students with the skills and knowledge to install and configure 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.

Course objectives

  • At the conclusion of this course you should 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

Course outline

Module 1: Tour the Product

  • 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

Module 2: HP Insight Control power management

  • Define HP Insight Control power management
  • Identify key HP Insight Control power management elements
  • Configure HP Insight Control power management

Module 3: HP Insight Control performance monitor

  • Define HP Insight Control performance monitor
  • Identify key HP Insight Control performance monitor elements
  • Configure HP Insight Control performance monitor

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

  • Define HP Insight Control server migration
  • Identify key HP Insight Control server migration elements
  • Configure HP Insight Control server migration