Hardware monitoring software.

[AndreaValori]

Hi all, I have some troubles in finding the right software to monitor the health of my on premise HPE hardware. Basically I have to monitor and be alerted against failures and performance issues of a mix of DL360Gen8, DL380Gen9 and DL380Gen10 servers, some MSA2040/MSA2060 SANs and a collection of HP/Aruba switches like the 2530-24G switch.

In the past I have use the SIM software but, reading on HPE, it seems to be in EOL or near EOL. So in my test lab I'm evaluating the Infosight prebuilt image and the Oneview prebuilt image on an Hyper-V hypervisor. The question is: wich software is the best replacement of the Systems Insight Manager? Can I monitor my hardware (it seems that the MSAs aren't monitor by Infosight and Oneview) with them? Can I replace the SIM functionality with them?

Thanks in advance Andrea Valori.  

[MV3]

Hello,

Please refer to the below HPE OneView 8.0 User Guide for VMs and this should answer all you questions.

https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docId=sd00002114en_us&page=home.html

Cheers...

[sfrench-quilter]

Your gen8, gen9 and gen10 servers can be monitored using OneView, but your old storage devices and switches could be a problem.

Not sure if you are planning to upgade your older equipment soon, but you may be better off maintaining SIM for your legacy equipment that is out of support?

I note from this document that MSA2040 went out of support on 30th April 2023?
https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-a00038415en_us

[AndreaValori]

Thanks sfrench-quilter, I think it's the better approach to this question. Browsing an instance of Oneview (I have to inspect if for InfoSight is the same) I can monitor and manage only servers but MSAs (not only the 2040 but the 2060 too) aren't covered by these appliance. So maybe I need to use OneView/InfoSight for servers and SIM for MSAs and switches. I'll update here after some tests on my environment.

Thanks for your reply Andrea.