Table 8 Licensing scenarios

User action

License policy or type

Result

Notes

 

 

 

 

Add enclosure with

The embedded license

Embedded OA licenses are added to

There is no guarantee that

embedded HP

takes precedent over the

the appliance pool and applied to

licenses embedded on an

OneView or HP

enclosure license policy

server hardware that is not licensed.

enclosure will be applied to the

OneView w/o

you select.

 

server hardware in the

iLO license.

 

 

enclosure; they might be

 

 

 

applied to other server

 

 

 

hardware managed by the

 

 

 

appliance.

 

 

 

 

Add server

Embedded licenses are

Embedded licenses are assigned to

 

hardware with

applied to the server

the server hardware on which they

 

embedded HP

hardware regardless of

reside.

 

OneView or HP

the license type you

 

 

OneView w/o

select.

 

 

iLO license.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Add server

The server hardware will

HP OneView w/o iLO Licenses

 

hardware with an

be assigned an HP

available in the pool

 

existing, permanent

OneView w/o iLO

The appliance assigns a license to the

 

iLO Advanced

license regardless of the

 

server hardware.

 

license.

license policy or type.

No HP OneView w/o iLO licenses

 

 

 

 

 

 

available in the pool

 

 

 

The appliance issues a warning that

 

 

 

there are not enough licenses to satisfy

 

 

 

the policy.

 

 

 

 

 

Add enclosure or

Any

Licenses available in the pool

After the 60-day trial period,

server hardware

 

The appliance assigns a license to the

a message notifies you when

with no embedded

 

server hardware.

there are not enough licenses

license.

 

for the number of managed

 

No licenses available in the pool

 

 

server hardware.

 

 

The appliance issues a warning that

 

 

 

there are not enough licenses to satisfy

 

 

 

the policy.

 

 

 

 

 

Remove server

HP OneView

The license remains assigned to the

If the server hardware is

hardware.

(applied to server

server hardware.

re-added, it will be assigned

 

 

the same license.

 

hardware).

 

 

 

Removing server hardware

 

 

 

 

 

 

with licenses assigned to them

 

 

 

can cause the number of

 

 

 

licensed servers shown in the

 

 

 

licensing graphs to be greater

 

 

 

than the number of servers

 

 

 

currently being managed

 

 

 

because the licenses are still

 

 

 

being counted as assigned to

 

 

 

server hardware.

 

 

 

 

Remove server HP OneView w/o iLO

hardware. or HP OneView (license not yet applied to server).

The license is unassigned from the server hardware.

22.6 Updating the appliance

The appliance runs a combination of software and firmware. Keeping the appliance up to date fixes problems, improves performance, and adds any new features to the appliance.

The appliance does not check for updates automatically. View the installed version of the appliance firmware from the Appliance General view of the Settings screen or by using the REST APIs, and

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