1.4.1 Data center environmental management

HP OneView integrates these critical areas for environmental management of the data center:

Thermal data visualization in 3DPower delivery infrastructure representationPhysical asset location in 3D

Feature

Description

 

 

Thermal data visualization

3D data center thermal mapping provides a view of the thermal status of your entire data

 

center. The appliance collects thermal data from the managed resources in each data center

 

rack and presents the data graphically, enabling easy identification of hot spots in a rack.

 

 

Power delivery

HP OneView collects and reports processor utilization and power and temperature history

infrastructure

for your data center hardware. The appliance monitors power, automatically detects and

representation

reports power delivery errors, and provides precise power requirement information for HP

 

ProLiant Gen8 servers and HP BladeSystem enclosures that you can use for planning rack

 

and power usage.

 

Power Discovery Services enable automatic discovery and visualization of the power

 

delivery topology for your data center. HP iPDUs enable the appliance to map the rack

 

power topology automatically. The appliance detects wiring errors—such as lack of

 

redundancy—and updates electrical inventory automatically when new servers are installed.

 

The appliance also supports per-outlet power control for remote power cycling of each

 

iPDU outlet.

 

You can manually define the power requirements and power topology for devices that do

 

not support Power Discovery Services.

 

 

Physical asset location

Location Discovery Services enable the appliance to automatically display the exact 3D

 

location of HP ProLiant Gen8 servers in HP Intelligent Series Racks, reducing labor time,

 

lowering operational costs, and eliminating human errors associated with inventory and

 

asset management.

 

You can manually define the positions of racks and devices that do not support Location

 

Discovery Services.

 

 

1.4.2 Resource utilization monitoring

HP OneView periodically collects and maintains CPU utilization information for all of the servers it manages. HP OneView also collects port-level statistics for networking, including transmit, receive, and error counters. HP OneView displays all of this data using rich UIs and makes the data available through the REST APIs.

1.4.3 Alert and health management

HP OneView provides streamlined activity monitoring and management. The appliance automatically registers to receive SNMP traps from all managed resources, and resources added to the appliance are immediately available for monitoring and management. When the appliance notifies you of a problem, when possible, it suggests a way to correct the problem.

Using the UI and REST APIs, you can:

View all activities (alerts and tasks) by description or source, and filter activities using multiple filter criteria.

Assign alerts to specific users.

Annotate activities with notes from administrators, enabling the administrators of the data center to collaborate through the appliance instead of through outside tools such as email.

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