1 Learning about HP OneView

1.1 HP OneView for converged infrastructure management

Optimized for collaboration, productivity, and reliability, the HP OneView appliance is designed to provide simple, single-pane-of-glass lifecycle management for the complex aspects of enterprise IT—servers, networking, software, power and cooling, and storage.

HP OneView is purpose-built to manage your converged infrastructure and support key scenarios such as deploying bare-metal servers, deploying hypervisor clusters from bare metal, performing ongoing hardware maintenance, and responding to alerts and outages. It is designed for the physical infrastructure needed to support virtualization, cloud computing, big data, and mixed computing environments.

HP Converged

Infrastructure

Storage

Servers

Power and cooling

Network

Management

software

Architecture

HP OneView is delivered as a virtual appliance running in a VMware vSphere virtual machine.

In contrast to management environments that require predefined serialized workflows and different tools for different tasks, HP OneView is a scalable resource-oriented solution focused on the entire life cycle—from initial configuration to on-going monitoring and maintenance—of both logical and physical resources:

Logical resources are items such as networks, server profiles, and connections.

Physical resources are items you can touch, such as server hardware, interconnects, and enclosures.

Software-defined flexibility—your experts design configurations for efficient and consistent deployment

The appliance provides several software-defined resources, such as groups and server profiles, to enable you to capture the best practices of your experts across a variety of disciplines, including networking, storage, hardware configuration, and operating system build and configuration. By having your experts define the server profiles and the networking groups and resources, you can eliminate cross-silo disconnects. By using RBAC (role-based access control) and the groups, sets,

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