An industry-leading insurance company in the UK has decided to build a redundant vSphere 5.1 infrastructure cluster with an HP BladeSystem and HP 3PAR StoreServ storage platform. As their consultant,

HP System Insight Manager (HP SIM) is a centralized management platform that provides hardware-level monitoring, alerting, and management for HP ProLiant servers and HP storage systems from a single console. It integrates data from iLO, Onboard Administrator, and storage management components to deliver a unified view of the entire HP infrastructure. This directly addresses the support department's need to reduce management time across both the BladeSystem servers and the 3PAR StoreServ storage.

Onboard Administrator manages BladeSystem c7000 enclosure components such as bays, power, and cooling but does not extend management to the HP 3PAR StoreServ storage platform.

Integrated Lights-Out (iLO) provides out-of-band remote management for individual ProLiant servers but does not manage storage systems or provide a unified cross-product management view.

Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager manages Virtual Connect networking modules within BladeSystem enclosures and does not cover server or external storage hardware management.