Features and Benefits
- Monitor and manage the physical/virtual relationships between the VMware Virtual Machines, ESX servers and the HP arrays:
- Map VMware/virtual environment and provide detailed information about the HP storage being used
- Create/Expand/Delete datastores on HP arrays
- Create a Virtual Machine from a template on HP arrays
- Delete an unassigned volume
- Includes support for vSphere Storage APIs for Storage Awareness (VASA), which enables vCenter to query and capture the capabilities of HP arrays and make use of the new vSphere 5 Storage DRS and Profile-Driven Storage features
- Available for the following arrays: 3PAR, MSA, EVA, XP, and LeftHand including the Virtual SAN Appliance.
New Features in v7.1
- Full Interoperability with VMware's latest version -- vSphere 5.1.
- New Web Client Graphical User Interface introduced in vCenter with vSphere 5.1.
- Portlet based overview and detailed table dashboards for HP Server, HP Infrastructure and HP Storage
- Active management for 3PAR arrays, including the ability to perform storage provisioning operations such as adding a new datastore, deleting or expanding an existing datastore, creating new VMs from a template, and cloning existing VMs.
- In context launch of HP management ecosystem tools (iLO, Onboard Administrator, Virtual Connect, HP Storage Management)
- One installer delivers both vCenter .Net Client Graphical User Interface and the New Web Client Graphical User Interface
Overall this looks like a great release, and is great to see the feature enhancements. Prior versions may have been somewhat feature lacking, so the full support for vSphere 5.1 and active management of most HP arrays is quite welcomed indeed.
Hi, Derek. I wonder if you have looked at how the self-signed certificates for the HP Insight Control for vCenter Server Module might be replaced with trusted certificates. Files server.key, server.pem, and server.p12 are located at "C:\Program Files (x86)\HP\HP Insight Control for vCenter\uim\" and a different server.key and server.pem at "C:\Program Files (x86)\HP\HP Insight Control for vCenter\hpcs\share\". There is also a vasa.keystore file in "C:\Program Files (x86)\HP\HP Insight Control for vCenter\Storage\JBoss\standalone\configuration\", but I think that is for the Storage Module and is accessible through the HP Insight Management Administration GUI in vCenter. As things stand vCenter complains about the untrusted certificate on the HP Insight Control server. I plan to have a look at the certificate and key files with OpenSSL, but if you have already solved this issue, that would be great to know. Thanks. Jeff.
ReplyDelete@Jeffry: I haven't yet tried to replace the certificates. I'm still fighting with the 3PAR Recovery manager for VMware plug-in, then I'll tackle the certs.
ReplyDelete@Derek: I have proposed a solution to this described in full at http://sysadmin.countryday.net/blog/2012/12/10/trusted-certificates-for-hp-insight-control-for-vmware-vcenter/. Thanks for any comments you or anyone may have. Jeff.
Delete@Jeffry: Thanks for the great blog post! When I have some time I'll go through it and see how it fairs for me. I wish companies would really make the process easier. Security should be "easy" or people won't do it.
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