7.2.10 Reviewing your firewall access

The appliance maintains a firewall that allows traffic on specific ports and blocks all unused ports. For a list of the network ports used by the appliance to manage data center resources, see “Ports needed for HP OneView” (page 53).

7.3 Preparing your data center network switches

The switch ports for data center network switches that connect to the Virtual Connect interconnect modules must be configured as described in “Data center switch port requirements” (page 115).

7.4 Planning your resource names

The banner of every screen includes the Smart Search feature, which enables you to find resource-specific information such as instances of resource names, serial numbers, WWNs, and IP and MAC addresses. In general, anything that appears in a resource is searchable.

Defining a standard naming convention for your networks, network sets, enclosures, enclosure groups, logical interconnect groups, and uplink sets makes it easy for you to identify them and enables efficient searching or filtering in the UI.

Consider the following information when choosing resource names:

To minimize the need for name changes and to make network-related resources easier to identify, consider choosing names that include the following information:

The purpose of the resource. For example:

prod for production network resources dev for development network resources

For networks, the VLAN ID

An identifier to help you distinguish between resources that use the left side or the right side of an enclosure. For example:

left and right A and B

1 and 2

Examples of network names that follow the recommended naming conventions include the following:

dev_1105_A prod_1102_1 test_1111_left

If you plan to use multi-network connections in server profiles, create network sets that contain all the networks to be used by a single profile connection. Choose names such as the following:

dev_nset_A prodnset_1 testns_left

Changing the names of uplinks sets can result in resources being taken offline temporarily (see “Configuration changes that require or result in resource outages” (page 85)). To minimize the need for name changes, and make the uplink sets easier to identify, choose names such as the following:

devUS_A prodUS_1

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