Servers

HP Blade Technology and Toolset Assessment

Provides: An assessment of your use of HP BladeSystem technology tools, focusing on best practices for bladed servers, storage, OS, and HP management tools.

Best For: Customers who want to ensure they are getting the most value from their use of HP BladeSystem equipment and management software.

The ASM conducts an onsite interview with your team, focusing on IT processes used with a specific HP blade enclosure.
The interview results establish a baseline for the your HP BladeSystem operations. This baseline is compared to a set of HP best practices to identify specific areas for availability, efficiency, cost reduction and configuration improvement.
The results are also used to analyze usage of the HP BladeSystem management software suite. The result is a set of recommendations for further optimization of these management tools, which are presented at an onsite follow up session.
This service assesses the use of one HP BladeSystem enclosure and components, and related HP management software. The assessment requires the provision of an inventory of the enclosure and components, including hardware, software tools installed, and firmware versions.

HP Health Check Analysis for VMware Virtual Servers

Provides: A snapshot of your VMware system performance, identifying the source of potential bottlenecks.

Best For: Data centres that desire increased consistency and performance from their VMware infrastructure.

HP conducts an on-site interview with your IT staff and uses data collection tools to develop a detailed profile of your VMware environment.
After off-site analysis, HP presents an extensive report of your VMware systems, highlighting areas such as configuration issues, possible performance issues, security improvements and recommended firmware updates. Special attention is given to integration of VMware with HP management tools such as System Insight Manager. The report also provides an extensive set of best practices, tailored to your specific situation.
An additional follow-up meeting provides an opportunity for continued discussion, after your staff have had a chance to fully review the report.
The service covers one VirtualCenter Server and up to 3 individual ESX hosts.

HP Virtualisation Readiness Assessment / Capacity Planner Assessment (CPA)

Provides: The VMware capacity planner assessment service creates an inventory of the server environment and generates a report recommending changes to consolidate and virtualize the IT environment.

Best For: Customers who are looking to virtualise and consolidate their existing infrastructure and to reduce / optimise operational costs within their Data Centre.

HP conducts a omprehensive review of the performance of your server assets.
After off-site analysis, HP Identifies target servers for consolidation & offers a roadmap for server consolidation opportunities.
An additional follow-up meeting provides an opportunity to present TCO Analysis estimates to support server consolidation and virtualization.
HP will then conduct a preliminary gap analysis between what would be assumed as part of a standard virtualization implementation and what would likely be needed.

HP-UX Performance Consulting

Provides: An application-independent remote consulting service to provide data to support decisions on system extensions and application optimization.

Best For: Customers needing longer term and detailed operating system data as a basis for application optimization and system extensions.

An OS-dependent tool gathers key performance metrics over a defined period of time on different information levels, for example, global CPU utilization to disk device activities.
Gathered data is sent to an expert for analysis; the resulting report graphically presents key metrics and documents important findings.
The report shows resource utilization and load distribution and covers all important OS metrics, such as CPU, Memory, I/O.
Supports decisions on system extensions and application optimization or further investigations.

HP Cluster Consistency Service

Provides: Installation and configuration of an automated diagnostic tool that spots and documents inconsistencies between cluster nodes configurations.

Best For: Customers using clustered services with high dependency on the availability of its business processes and applications.

Because configuration changes and inconsistent configurations between servers or nodes in a cluster can lead to problems during failover, this service increases cluster availability and stability by monitoring clusters, then identifying and alerting to cluster and node configuration inconsistencies BEFORE they lead to unplanned application downtime.
Reduces planned downtime for cluster administration and switchover testing, enabling more efficient management, while reducing the risk of instability due to changes in cluster or node configuration.
Available for one 2-3 node cluster – and further as an additional service sold for each additional node.
Includes the HP Change Alert service to track configurations and hardware resources and changes of nodes across time, helping to minimize change-related system failures on the node.
Tools are configured on a cluster, resources profiled and node consistency checked, and then set up for customized automated monitoring of thousands of data points for configuration differences, triggering alarms when changes or inconsistencies occur.

HP Serviceguard Implementation Service for HP-UX & Linux ™

Provides: HP Serviceguard is an HP product that helps protect mission-critical applications from hardware and software failures.

Best For: Customers that are new to the HP Serviceguard environment running HP-UX 11i v2 or later including HP 9000 and HP Integrity Servers. This service helps with system uptime and reduces implementation time.

In the design stage, HP will review your computing environment for the implementation of HP Serviceguard and, where applicable, VERITAS integrated cluster, including hardware, software, and applications, to help verify compatibility with HP Serviceguard and the specified integrated VERITAS suite in your HP-UX environment. HP will provide documentation of system and/or application issues that must be addressed and resolved prior to implementation. HP also will conduct a planning meeting to review recommendations and help develop the project plan.
In the implementation stage, HP will install and custom configure the integrated HP Serviceguard application and, where applicable, the VERITAS software bundle, and HP will automate startup and shutdown scripts and perform the creation of one application package. Additional packages can be configured as an additional service based on business requirements. HP will also demonstrate functionality of the high-availability cluster and document the clusterconfiguration. HP will verify functionality of the high-availability cluster through completion of the agreed-upon test.

HP Installation and Startup Service for Virtual Server Environment Software

Provides: HP Installation and Startup Service for Virtual Server Environment (VSE).

Best For: Customers looking to set up a virtualized environment for HP Integrity and HP 9000 servers.

The VSE package service provides for installation and startup of the following software applications and tools:

HP Systems Insight Manager (SIM).
Service Essentials Remote Support Pack (formerly ISEE).
AHP Capacity Advisor (CapAd).
HP Virtualization Manager (Vman).
Choice of HP Global Workload Manager (gWLM) or Workload Manager (WLM).
Choice of HP Virtual Partitions (vPars) or HP Integrity.

System Health Check (Direct)

Provides: A broad assessment of the customers’ computing environment by identifying specific problems before they can impact the customers’ critical operations.

Best For: Customers who want to proactively identify any problems before they can impact their critical operations.

HP provides access to a software tool that collects and analyzes static and dynamic information including operational procedures, configuration information, and system performance characteristics, gathered from your designated system.
A service report of the resultant analysis and recommendations based on HP system management practices is provided by the use of automated online delivery.
The system health check assessment report identifies potentialsecurity, system performance, and availability problems.
The Customer will receive, via emai,l a single (one-time) System Health Check Assessment (SHCA) report.
This service c overs one HP server.
Covers Windows, Red Hat Linux, Suse Linux, HP-UX and OpenVMS operating systems.

System Health Check (This check can be delivered Onsite, Direct or Remote)

Provides: A broad assessment of the customers’ computing environment by identifying specific problems before they can impact the customers’ critical operations.

Best For: Customers who want to proactively identify any problems before they can impact their critical operations.

HP provides access to a software tool that collects and analyzes static and dynamic information including operational procedures, configuration information, and system performance characteristics, gathered from your designated system.
A service report of the resultant analysis and recommendations based on HP system management practices is provided by the use of automated online delivery.
The system health check assessment report identifies potentialsecurity, system performance, and availability problems.
This service c overs one HP server.
Covers Windows, Red Hat Linux, Suse Linux, HP-UX and OpenVMS operating systems.
Onsite: The Customer will receive one day of onsite advisory consultation, including a review of the findings and recommendations from the SHCA report.
Direct: The Customer will receive, via email, a single (one-time) System Health Check Assessment (SHCA) report.

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