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•The appliance does not support the filtering of resources, such as server hardware, based on physical location (data center name). To enable filtering by data center name, choose a naming convention that includes the data center name in the resource name.

•The appliance supports the filtering of resources by model, so you can search for server hardware without having to include the model number in the name.

•The appliance provides default names for many resources. For example:

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Enclosures are assigned the name Encln, where n is a number that is incremented by 1 as each enclosure is added.

enclosure_name-LIis the default name of a logical interconnect, where enclosure_name is the name of the enclosure.

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Datacenter 1 is the name assigned to the data center when you initialize the appliance.

Server hardware types are assigned names based on the server model, such as BL460c Gen8 1. If you select a server hardware type as a standard, you can choose to rename that server hardware type to include the word Standard or some other identifier to help administrators quickly determine the correct server hardware type to choose.

•You can create shorter names by using abbreviations for resources. For example:

Resource name

Typical abbreviations

 

 

Enclosure

Encl

 

 

Enclosure group

EG, Group

 

 

Logical interconnect

LI

 

 

Logical interconnect group

LIG

 

 

Uplink set

US

 

 

For more information about the search capabilities of the appliance, see “Search resources” (page 67).

7.5 Planning the appliance configuration

7.5.1 Appliance VM and host requirements

HP OneView is delivered as a virtual appliance running on a VMware vSphere Hypervisor VM (virtual machine).

IMPORTANT: HP OneView cannot import existing VC (HP Virtual Connect) domain configurations, so do not select a host system located in an enclosure that you plan to manage with HP OneView. You can, however, select a host system located on an HP ProLiant DL rack mount server that you plan to manage with HP OneView.

The VM host must be able to support a VM with the following minimum requirements:

•VMware vSphere Hypervisor 5.0 or 5.1.•Two 2 GHz virtual CPUs.•10 GB of memory dedicated to the appliance.•160 GB of thick-provisioned disk space.

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