HP OneView manual Managing servers and server profiles, UI screens and Rest API resources

14 Managing servers and server profiles

Managing servers with the appliance involves interacting with several different resources on the appliance:

•A server profile captures the entire server configuration in one place, enabling you to consistently replicate new server profiles and to rapidly modify them to reflect changes in your data center environment.

•A server profile enables management of your server hardware.

•An instance of server hardware is a physical server, such as an HP ProLiant BL460c Gen8 Server Blade, installed in an enclosure or an HP ProLiant DL380p rack mount server.

•A server hardware type defines the characteristics of a specific server model and set of hardware options, such as mezzanine cards.

•A connection, which is associated with a server profile, connects a server to the data center networks.

Server profiles provide most of the management features for servers, but server hardware and server profiles are independent of each other:

•A physical server, which is an instance of server hardware, might or might not have a server profile assigned to it.

•A server profile might be assigned to one instance of server hardware, or no server hardware at all.

It is the combination of the server hardware and the server profile assigned to it that is the complete server in the appliance.

You must use the server hardware resource to add physical servers to the appliance when you install a rack mount server. Server blades are added to the appliance automatically when you add an enclosure or install a server blade in an existing enclosure.

UI screens and REST API resources

UI screen	REST API resource
Server Profiles	server-profiles and connections
Server Hardware	server-hardware
Server Hardware Types	server-hardware-types

14.1 Server hardware features supported by the appliance

	HP ProLiant BL	HP ProLiant BL	HP ProLiant DL
Feature	G71	Gen8	Gen82
Power on or power off the server	✓	✓	✓
View inventory data	✓	✓	✓
Monitor power, cooling, and utilization	✓	✓	✓
Monitor health and alerts	Only with manual	✓	✓
	installation of
	SNMP Agents
Launch iLO remote console	✓	✓	✓

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