FlexManagement

FlexManagement converges network management and orchestration

If you're a network or IT administrator, you know the problems: You're dealing with a growing wave of enterprise video content, and your network is struggling to keep pace with exponential traffic increases and the shift toward mobile access. You're trying to address the escalating demands of the virtualized and cloud-ready data center. And you've seen how difficult–make that nearly impossible–it is for network IT to secure and orchestrate services in the virtual cloud and the virtualized workplace.

At the same time, your customers' expectations are higher. Today's enterprise users demand constant and immediate connectivity across wired and wireless links. They want instant-on access to business applications from their fixed and mobile workstations. And they expect to switch seamlessly and transparently from traditional IT to private and public clouds and back.

Keeping pace with these requirements is a tall order for the IT manager–one made no easier by "swivelchai management," which results from dependence on the mismatched management tools provided by network vendors. As a result, many organizations find that IT staff time and budget is overwhelmingly devoted to ongoing operations and maintenance instead of developing new initiatives and projects or expanding capacity to support business growth. In fact, more than 70 percent of any IT budget is spent just keeping the lights on, leaving less than 30 percent to deliver business-critical innovation.

Solving such seemingly intractable problems calls for a new type of network management, one that combines a capability for single-pane-of-glass multivendor management with automated virtual machine orchestration and automatic synchronization of network connectivity information. At HP, we call this FlexManagement. And it's available today in the HP Intelligent Management Center (IMC).

HP Networking Intelligent Management Center

HP's Intelligent Management Center (IMC) is a unified, single-point network management solution that provides visibility across entire networks, enabling complete management of resources, services and users. Unifying wired, wireless and user management leads to increased performance, enhanced security and reduced infrastructure complexity and costs.

Orchestrating services from the virtualized cloud to the virtual workplace for a converged network infrastructure needs to bridge the management/operational divide between the physical and virtual worlds.

• Configuration changes in complex environments can cause downtime, slowing service provisioning and creating outages
• Network administrators are challenged to orchestrate provisioning across a converged network infrastructure with virtualization, compounding operational complexity
• Current tools for managing networking and computing have not evolved to address the need to manage a combined physical and virtual infrastructure

HP Intelligent Management Center (IMC) v5 software unifies physical and virtual network management in a Converged Infrastructure by automatically discovering virtual machines, virtual switches and their relationship to the physical network, overcoming the challenges of administering increasingly virtualized data centers.

IMC v5.1 introduces new features to extend data center management, compliance capabilities, and enhanced support campus edge branch support. IT managers will certainly enjoy the new user experience enhancements, such as an IMC mobile app and new UI workflow tools.

• Data Center Management – Microsoft Hyper-V Support, Virtual Connect Support
• Enhanced support for Campus, Edge and Branch devices
• Compliance Center – Allows IT administrators to run compliance checks
• IMC Extended API to enable 3rd party apps to interface with IMC (Enterprise Platform only)
• User Experience – Unified Task Management and Wizard Center, Google Maps support, Telnet/SHH Proxy
• IMC Mobile Application (iPhone and Android)
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Network Software Management Solutions for SMB

HP PCM is a complete network management suite designed to simplify the management of medium to large business networks designed primarily with HP Networking network devices. The PCM suite provides a single pane of glass management solution for managing a unified wired and wireless network and includes network performance monitoring, network threat monitoring and policy-based user access management. PCM helps to reduce management costs while increasing network availability and security.

For more information on End-to-End solution see the links below:

• Unified end-to-end network solutions for midsize businesses – Solution brief
• Simple end-to-end network solutions for small business – Solution brief
• HP Networking Mid-Market End user Brochure