HP OneView manual Licensed features, Server blade licensing at the enclosure level

server blades in the enclosure. When you add a rack mount server, you specify a license type for that server. Both policy and type refer to either of the two licenses: HP OneView or HP OneView w/o iLO.

NOTE: The appliance applies embedded (integrated) licenses to the server hardware on which they reside, regardless of the license policy or type you choose.

Licensed features

An HP OneView w/o iLO license provides support for all server hardware features on the appliance, with the following exceptions:

•Server hardware without an iLO Advanced license does not display utilization data.

•Rack mount servers without an iLO Advanced license cannot access the remote console.

22.5.4.1Server blade licensing at the enclosure level

A server blade licensing policy at the enclosure level is an efficient way to handle licensing for all servers in an enclosure.

When you add an enclosure to the appliance, you must choose a server hardware license policy. This sets the licensing policy for all server hardware in the enclosure. You cannot change the policy for an enclosure unless you remove and re-add the enclosure.

NOTE: A license embedded on a server blade will override the enclosure license policy. If you add a server blade with an embedded license, the appliance assigns the embedded license to that server, regardless of the enclosure license policy.

Enclosure licensing policy behavior

When you add an enclosure to the appliance:

• You must choose a licensing policy: HP OneView or HP OneView w/o iLO.

•A license embedded on the OA is added to the appliance license pool.

•If the server blade does not have an embedded license, the appliance attempts to assign a license from the pool.

•If there are not enough licenses to satisfy the policy, a notification is displayed that instructs you on how to address the issue.

•If you add server blades to the enclosure after it has been added to the appliance, the server hardware will use the enclosure license policy.

•There is no guarantee that an embedded OA license will be applied to the server blades in the enclosure that contains the embedded license.

•Licenses embedded on a server iLO are automatically added to the appliance and applied to the server hardware on which they are embedded.

•If the server hardware has an existing permanent iLO Advanced license, the appliance assigns an HP OneView w/o iLO license, regardless of the license type you choose.

•To change the server hardware license policy of an enclosure, you must remove the enclosure from management and then re-add it with the new license policy.

•When you add server hardware to the appliance, the iLO Advanced license that is part of the HP OneView license is applied to the server hardware iLO.

•If a server blade does not have an iLO license and there are not enough of the selected license type available, the appliance will attempt to apply a demo iLO license to the server blade.

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