event views, health monitoring, inventory data collection, software
version control and reporting. HP SIM is built on industry standards and
is extensible with value-added ProLiant Essentials, Integrity Essentials
and Storage Essentials software to meet individual management needs.
For more details on HP SIM visit
http://www.hp.com/go/hpsim
.
HP SIM provides organizations with the following benefits:
Simplifies and consolidates infrastructure lifecycle management
using task and query based functionality
Provides the foundation for infrastructure automation and
virtualization
Enables IT management based on business processes not
hardware platforms
Lowers infrastructure maintenance cost and frees resources for
innovation
Maximizes resource utilization with virtualization technologies
Provides a central point of integration between infrastructure and
Enterprise management tools such as HP OpenView
Insight Management
Agents
Insight Management Agents should be installed on all HP servers to
present system instrumentation, health and configuration information
into HP Systems Insight Manager and the HP System Management
Homepage. The HP System Management Homepage aggregates
systems data from Insight Management Agents and other HP
management tools, providing a consolidated browser-based interface
for managing individual servers
Insight Management Agents and The HP System Management
Homepage are included on ProLiant Support Packs, and can also be
installed using the server profiles provided with the ProLiant Essentials
Rapid Deployment Pack. For additional information about the
Management Agents and the HP System Management Homepage
please visit the management Web site at:
http://www.hp.com/servers/manage
SmartStart
SmartStart simplifies server setup by providing a quick, easy way to
deploy reliable and consistent server configurations. For more
information, please visit the SmartStart Web site at
http://www.hp.com/servers/manage
.
Minimum SmartStart version supported: 7.60
Subscriber's Choice
Subscriber's Choice Driver and Support Alerts/Notifications is a web-
based email subscription service that provides automatic delivery of
software and driver change notifications for ProLiant products. Sign up
at
http://www.hp.com/go/subscriberschoice
and customize your profile to receive alerts on updates as they become
available.
ROMPaq, support
software, and
configuration utilities
The latest software, drivers, and firmware fully optimized and tested for
your ProLiant server and options
Available in SmartStart or downloadable from the Software and Drivers
download pages at
http://www.hp.com/go/support
.
Insight Diagnostics
Online Edition
The most advanced configuration analysis, reporting and
troubleshooting utilities used by HP at your fingertips
Available in SmartStart.
Optional ProLiant
Essentials Value Packs
Optional software offerings that extend the functionality of an Adaptive
Infrastructure to address specific business problems and needs:
Accelerated iSCSI Pack
- enables the embedded Multifunction
network controller to serve as both a NIC and an iSCSI HBA
QuickSpecs
HP ProLiant ML350 Generation 5
Standard Features
DA - 12475 Worldwide QuickSpecs — Version 20 — 11/27/2007
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