1.3 Firmware and configuration change management features

1.3.1 Simplified firmware management

The appliance provides fast, reliable, and simple firmware management across the data center.

When you add a resource to the appliance, to ensure compatibility and seamless operation, the appliance automatically updates the resource firmware to the minimum version required to be managed by the appliance.

An HP firmware bundle, also known as an SPP (Service Pack for ProLiant), is a tested update package of firmware, drivers, and utilities. Firmware bundles enable you to update firmware on server blades, and infrastructure (enclosures and interconnects).

An on-appliance firmware repository enables you to upload SPP firmware bundles and deploy them across your environment according to your best practices. For example you can:

•View the versions and contents of firmware bundles stored in the firmware repository.

•View the settings of the enclosures and interconnects, if any, that have a specific firmware bundle installed.

•Set a firmware baseline—a desired state for firmware versions—on a resource, such as a server profile, or on a group of resources, such as all of the interconnects in a logical interconnect group.

•Detect when a resource does not comply with the firmware baseline.•Identify firmware compatibility issues.•Update firmware for an entire enclosure in minutes.

•Update firmware for individual resources or for groups of resources, such as logical interconnect groups.1

1.3.2Simplified configuration change management

Templates and groups simplify the distribution of configuration changes across your data center. For example:

•If you add a network to a network set, the network is available for immediate use by all of the server profiles that have a connection to the network set. You do not need to change or reapply a server profile.

•You can reduce errors by making multiple and complex changes to a group. Then, for each member of the group, you can use a single action to update the configuration to match the configuration of the group.

•The appliance notifies you when it detects that a device does not comply with the current template or group. You control when and if a device configuration is updated.

•The firmware for physical interconnects is managed using the logical interconnects, ensuring that the member interconnects have compatible firmware.

1.4Monitoring and response features

One user interface

You use the same interface you use to provision resources. There are no additional tools or interfaces to learn.

1.Enclosure groups do not include a firmware baseline; therefore, updates to enclosure firmware are managed on a per-enclosure basis.

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