HP OneView manual Updating the appliance, Licensing scenarios

Table 8 Licensing scenarios

User action	License policy or type	Result
Add enclosure with	The embedded license	Embedded OA licenses are added to
embedded HP	takes precedent over the	the appliance pool and applied to
OneView or HP	enclosure license policy	server hardware that is not licensed.
OneView w/o	you select.
iLO license.

Notes

There is no guarantee that licenses embedded on an enclosure will be applied to the server hardware in the enclosure; they might be applied to other server hardware managed by the appliance.

Add server	Embedded licenses are
hardware with	applied to the server
embedded HP	hardware regardless of
OneView or HP	the license type you
OneView w/o	select.
iLO license.

Embedded licenses are assigned to the server hardware on which they reside.

Add server	The server hardware will
hardware with an	be assigned an HP
existing, permanent	OneView w/o iLO
iLO Advanced	license regardless of the
license.	license policy or type.

Add enclosure or	Any
server hardware
with no embedded
license.

HP OneView w/o iLO Licenses available in the pool

The appliance assigns a license to the server hardware.

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.

Licenses available in the pool

The appliance assigns a license to the server hardware.

No licenses available in the pool

The appliance issues a warning that there are not enough licenses to satisfy the policy.

After the 60-day trial period, a message notifies you when there are not enough licenses for the number of managed server hardware.

Remove server	HP OneView	The license remains assigned to the
hardware.	(applied to server	server hardware.
	hardware).

If the server hardware is re-added, it will be assigned the same license.

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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