HP OneView User Manual

HP OneView 1.05 User Guide

Abstract

This guide describes HP OneView features, interfaces, resource model design, and secure working environment. It describes up-front planning considerations and how to use the HP OneView appliance UI or REST APIs to configure, manage, monitor, and troubleshoot your data center infrastructure. It also includes information about the SCMB (State-Change Message Bus) and a step-by-step example that configures a sample data center from start to finish. It is intended for infrastructure administrators, network administrators, and server administrators that plan, configure, and manage data center hardware and software throughout its lifecycle, and for backup administrators and operations personnel that monitor and troubleshoot data center hardware and software.

HP Part Number: 5900-3730

Published: March 2014

Edition: 1

© Copyright 2013-2014 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.

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Warranty

HP will replace defective delivery media for a period of 90 days from the date of purchase.

Contents
I Learning about HP OneView.......................................................................	13
1 Learning about HP OneView..................................................................	15
1.1 HP OneView for converged infrastructure management......................................................	15
1.2 Hardware and software provisioning features...................................................................	16
1.2.1 Server profiles.......................................................................................................	17
1.2.2 Groups, templates, and sets...................................................................................	17
1.2.3 Streamlined process for bringing hardware under management..................................	19
1.2.4 Operating system deployment.................................................................................	19
1.3 Firmware and configuration change management features.................................................	20
1.3.1 Simplified firmware management.............................................................................	20
1.3.2 Simplified configuration change management...........................................................	20
1.4 Monitoring and response features...................................................................................	20
1.4.1 Data center environmental management...................................................................	22
1.4.2 Resource utilization monitoring...............................................................................	22
1.4.3 Activity and health management ............................................................................	22
1.4.4 Hardware and firmware inventory information..........................................................	23
1.5 Backup and restore features...........................................................................................	23
1.6 Security features...........................................................................................................	24
1.7 Availability features......................................................................................................	24
1.8 Graphical and programmatic interfaces..........................................................................	25
1.9 Integration with other HP management software...............................................................	26
1.10 Open integration.........................................................................................................	26
1.11 Convenient licensing model...........................................................................................	26
1.12 Networking features....................................................................................................	27
2 Understanding the resource model..........................................................	29
2.1 Resource model summary diagram..................................................................................	29
2.2 Server profiles.............................................................................................................	30
2.3 Connection templates...................................................................................................	30
2.4 Connections................................................................................................................	31
2.5 Server hardware types..................................................................................................	31
2.6 Server hardware..........................................................................................................	32
2.7 Enclosure groups..........................................................................................................	33
2.8 Enclosure types............................................................................................................	33
2.9 Enclosures...................................................................................................................	34
2.10 Interconnect types.......................................................................................................	34
2.11 Interconnects...............................................................................................................	35
2.12 Logical interconnect groups..........................................................................................	36
2.13 Logical interconnects....................................................................................................	37
2.14 Uplink sets.................................................................................................................	38
2.15 Networks...................................................................................................................	39
2.16 Network sets..............................................................................................................	39
2.17 Domains....................................................................................................................	40
2.18 Appliance..................................................................................................................	40
2.19 Resources related to data center facilities........................................................................	41
2.19.1 Data centers........................................................................................................	41
2.19.2 Racks.................................................................................................................	41
2.19.3 Power delivery devices..........................................................................................	42

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2.19.4 Unmanaged devices............................................................................................	42
3 Understanding the security features of the appliance.................................	45
3.1 Securing the appliance..................................................................................................	45
3.2 Best practices for maintaining a secure appliance............................................................	46
3.3 Creating a login session...............................................................................................	47
3.4 Authentication for appliance access...............................................................................	47
3.5 Controlling access for authorized users............................................................................	48
3.5.1 Specifying user accounts and roles..........................................................................	48
3.6 Protecting credentials....................................................................................................	48
3.7 Understanding the audit log..........................................................................................	48
3.8 Choosing a policy for the audit log................................................................................	50
3.9 Appliance access over SSL............................................................................................	50
3.10 Managing certificates from a browser............................................................................	50
3.10.1 Overview............................................................................................................	50
3.10.2 Self-signed certificate...........................................................................................	51
3.10.2.1 Verifying a certificate....................................................................................	51
3.10.2.2 Downloading and importing a self-signed certificate........................................	51
3.10.3 Using a certificate authority..................................................................................	52
3.11 Browser best practices for a secure environment...............................................................	52
3.12 Nonbrowser clients......................................................................................................	52
3.12.1 Passwords...........................................................................................................	52
3.12.2 SSL connection....................................................................................................	53
3.13 Ports needed for HP OneView.......................................................................................	53
3.14 Access to the appliance console...................................................................................	53
3.14.1 Enabling or disabling authorized services access.....................................................	54
3.14.2 Restricting console access.....................................................................................	54
3.15 Algorithms for securing the appliance............................................................................	54
3.16 Downloads from the appliance.....................................................................................	55
4 Navigating the graphical user interface...................................................	57
4.1 Browsers.....................................................................................................................	57
4.1.1 Supported browsers...............................................................................................	57
4.1.2 Commonly used browser features and settings...........................................................	57
4.1.3 Set the browser for US or metric units of measurement................................................	58
4.2 About the graphical user interface..................................................................................	58
4.3 About the Activity sidebar.............................................................................................	60
4.4 Banner and main menu................................................................................................	60
4.5 Button functions...........................................................................................................	60
4.6 Filters sidebar..............................................................................................................	61
4.7 Help sidebar...............................................................................................................	61
4.8 Icon descriptions..........................................................................................................	62
4.8.1 Status and severity icons........................................................................................	62
4.8.2 User control icons.................................................................................................	63
4.8.3 Informational icons...............................................................................................	63
4.9 Map view screen details...............................................................................................	64
4.10 Notifications area.......................................................................................................	65
4.11 Log out of the appliance...............................................................................................	66
4.12 Search help topics.......................................................................................................	66
4.12.1 About help system search results............................................................................	67
4.13 Search resources.........................................................................................................	67
4.14 View resources according to their health status................................................................	69
4.14.1 Reset the health status view...................................................................................	70

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5 Using the REST APIs and other programmatic interfaces.............................	71
5.1 Resource operations......................................................................................................	71
5.2 Return codes...............................................................................................................	72
5.3 URI format...................................................................................................................	72
5.4 Resource model format.................................................................................................	72
5.5 Log in to the appliance using REST APIs..........................................................................	72
5.6 REST API version and backward compatibility..................................................................	73
5.7 Asynchronous versus synchronous operations...................................................................	73
5.8 Task resource...............................................................................................................	74
5.9 Error handling.............................................................................................................	74
5.10 Concurrency control using etags...................................................................................	74
5.11 Querying resources and pagination using common REST API parameters............................	74
5.12 State Change Message Bus..........................................................................................	76
5.13 Developer tools in a web browser.................................................................................	76
5.14 PowerShell and Python code sample libraries..................................................................	76
6 Accessing documentation and help.........................................................	79
6.1 Online help—conceptual and task information as you need it............................................	79
6.2 This user guide supplements the online help.....................................................................	79
6.3 Where to find HP OneView documentation......................................................................	80
6.4 Enabling off-appliance browsing of UI HTML help and REST API HTML help.........................	80
II Planning tasks..........................................................................................	83
7 Planning your data center resources........................................................	85
7.1 How many data centers?...............................................................................................	85
7.2 Security planning.........................................................................................................	85
7.3 Preparing your data center network switches....................................................................	85
7.4 Planning your resource names........................................................................................	85
7.5 Planning the appliance configuration..............................................................................	87
7.5.1 Appliance VM and host requirements.......................................................................	87
7.5.2 Planning for high availability..................................................................................	87
7.5.3 Location of the appliance.......................................................................................	87
7.5.4 Separate networks for data and management...........................................................	87
7.5.5 Time clocks and NTP.............................................................................................	87
7.5.6 IP addresses.........................................................................................................	88
8 Planning for configuration changes.........................................................	89
8.1 Configuration changes that require or result in resource outages.........................................	89
8.2 Configuration changes that might require changes to multiple resources..............................	90
8.2.1 Adding a network.................................................................................................	90
8.2.2 Adding an enclosure............................................................................................	91
III Configuration quick starts..........................................................................	93
9 Quick Start: Initial Configuration.............................................................	95
9.1 Process overview..........................................................................................................	95
9.2 First time setup: configuration tasks.................................................................................	95

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10 Quick Start: Adding a network to an existing appliance environment.........	99
10.1 Process....................................................................................................................	100
11 Quick Start: Adding an enclosure and connecting its server blades to
networks...............................................................................................	103
11.1 Checklist: connecting a server blade to a data center network.........................................	103
11.2 Scenario 1: Adding the enclosure to an existing enclosure group.....................................	104
11.3 Scenario 2: Defining network connectivity before the enclosure is added..........................	105
11.4 Scenario 3: Defining network connectivity as you add the enclosure................................	106
12 Quick Start: Configuring an enclosure and server blade for Direct attach to
an HP 3PAR Storage System....................................................................	109
12.1 Process....................................................................................................................	110
13 Quick Start: Adding an HP ProLiant DL rack mount server.......................	111
13.1 Process....................................................................................................................	111
14 Quick Start: Adding an active/active network configuration....................	113
14.1 Process....................................................................................................................	114
15 Quick Start: Migrating from an active/standby to an active/active network
configuration.........................................................................................	117
15.1 Process....................................................................................................................	117
IV Configuration and management..............................................................	119
16 Managing server hardware and server profiles.....................................	121
16.1 Managing server hardware........................................................................................	121
16.1.1 Roles................................................................................................................	122
16.1.2 Tasks for server hardware...................................................................................	122
16.1.3 Server hardware features supported by the appliance.............................................	122
16.1.4 Prerequisites for bringing server hardware under management.................................	123
16.1.5 About server hardware.......................................................................................	123
16.1.5.1 How the appliance handles unsupported hardware.........................................	124
16.1.5.2 About unsupported server hardware.............................................................	124
16.1.5.3 About unmanaged devices..........................................................................	124
16.1.6 Tasks for server hardware types...........................................................................	125
16.1.7 About server hardware types...............................................................................	125
16.1.8 Effects of managing server hardware iLOs.............................................................	125
16.2 Managing server profiles...........................................................................................	125
16.2.1 Roles...............................................................................................................	126
16.2.2 Tasks for server profiles......................................................................................	126
16.2.3 About server profiles..........................................................................................	126
16.3 Learning more..........................................................................................................	127
17 Managing licenses............................................................................	129
17.1 UI screens and REST API resources...............................................................................	129
17.2 Roles.......................................................................................................................	129

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17.3 Tasks for licenses......................................................................................................	129
17.4 About licensing........................................................................................................	129
17.4.1 License types.....................................................................................................	129
17.4.2 License delivery.................................................................................................	130
17.4.3 License reporting...............................................................................................	130
17.4.4 View license status............................................................................................	130
17.5 Server hardware licensing..........................................................................................	131
17.5.1 Server blade licensing at the enclosure level..........................................................	131
17.5.2 Rack mount server licensing................................................................................	132
17.5.3 Licensing and utilization statistics.........................................................................	133
17.5.4 Licensing scenarios............................................................................................	133
18 Managing networks and network resources..........................................	135
18.1 About network connectivity.........................................................................................	135
18.2 About network sets...................................................................................................	135
18.3 About Fibre Channel networks...................................................................................	136
18.3.1 Fibre Channel network types...............................................................................	137
18.3.2 Fabric attach Fibre Channel networks..................................................................	137
18.3.3 Direct attach Fibre Channel networks...................................................................	137
18.3.4 Fibre Channel networks and FCoE......................................................................	138
18.3.5 Managing Fibre Channel networks (SANs)...........................................................	138
18.3.5.1 Roles........................................................................................................	138
18.3.5.2 Tasks for Fibre Channel networks.................................................................	138
18.4 About Ethernet networks............................................................................................	138
18.4.1 Ethernet networks and VLAN IDs.........................................................................	138
18.4.2 Managing Ethernet networks..............................................................................	139
18.4.2.1 Roles........................................................................................................	139
18.4.2.2 Tasks for Ethernet networks.........................................................................	139
18.5 Data center switch port requirements...........................................................................	139
18.6 Learning more..........................................................................................................	140
19 Managing interconnects, logical interconnects, and logical interconnect
groups.................................................................................................	141
19.1 Managing enclosure interconnect hardware..................................................................	141
19.1.1 Roles.................................................................................................................	141
19.1.2 Tasks for interconnects........................................................................................	141
19.1.3 About interconnects............................................................................................	141
19.1.4 Learning more...................................................................................................	142
19.2 Managing logical interconnects and logical interconnect groups.....................................	142
19.2.1 Roles................................................................................................................	142
19.2.2 Tasks for logical interconnects.............................................................................	142
19.2.3 About logical interconnects.................................................................................	143
19.2.4 About logical interconnect groups.......................................................................	145
19.2.5 About active/active and active/standby configurations..........................................	147
19.2.5.1 About active/standby configurations.............................................................	147
19.2.5.2 About active/active configurations...............................................................	147
19.2.6 About SNMP settings.........................................................................................	149
19.2.7 Update the logical interconnect configuration from the logical interconnect group......	149
19.2.8 Configure a port to monitor network traffic...........................................................	150
19.2.9 Learning more..................................................................................................	151

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20 Managing enclosures and enclosure groups.........................................	153
20.1 Prerequisites for bringing an enclosure under management............................................	153
20.2 Roles......................................................................................................................	154
20.3 Tasks for enclosures..................................................................................................	154
20.4 About enclosures.....................................................................................................	154
20.4.1 About unmanaged and unsupported enclosures....................................................	155
20.5 About enclosure groups............................................................................................	155
20.6 Effects of managing an enclosure...............................................................................	155
20.7 Learning more.........................................................................................................	156
21 Managing firmware for managed devices............................................	157
21.1 About the appliance firmware repository......................................................................	157
21.2 About unsupported firmware......................................................................................	157
21.3 Tasks for firmware.....................................................................................................	158
21.4 The firmware update process......................................................................................	158
21.5 Best practices for firmware.........................................................................................	159
21.6 Learning more..........................................................................................................	160
22 Managing power and temperature......................................................	161
22.1 Managing power......................................................................................................	161
22.1.1 Roles................................................................................................................	161
22.1.2 Tasks for managing power..................................................................................	161
22.1.3 About power delivery devices..............................................................................	161
22.2 Managing temperature in your data center..................................................................	162
22.2.1 Roles...............................................................................................................	162
22.2.2 Tasks for data centers........................................................................................	162
22.2.3 About data centers............................................................................................	162
22.3 Managing racks.......................................................................................................	163
22.3.1 Roles...............................................................................................................	163
22.3.2 Tasks for racks..................................................................................................	163
22.3.3 About racks.....................................................................................................	163
22.3.4 Learning more..................................................................................................	164
23 Managing users and authentication.....................................................	165
23.1 Roles.......................................................................................................................	165
23.2 Tasks for managing users and groups.........................................................................	165
23.3 About user accounts.................................................................................................	165
23.4 About user roles.......................................................................................................	166
23.5 Action privileges for user roles....................................................................................	166
23.6 About authentication settings.....................................................................................	168
23.7 About directory service authentication.........................................................................	168
23.8 Managing user passwords........................................................................................	169
23.9 Reset the administrator password................................................................................	169
23.10 Learning more........................................................................................................	170
24 Backing up an appliance...................................................................	171
24.1 About backing up the appliance.................................................................................	171
24.2 Roles......................................................................................................................	172
24.3 Best practices for backing up an appliance.................................................................	172
24.4 Determining your backup policy.................................................................................	172
24.5 Back up an appliance...............................................................................................	173
24.6 Using REST APIs to create and download an appliance backup file................................	173

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24.7 Creating a custom script to create and download an appliance backup file		.....................174
25 Managing the appliance...................................................................		175
25.1 Updating the appliance.............................................................................................		175
25.1.1 About managing appliance updates.....................................................................		175
25.1.2	Roles ...............................................................................................................	176
25.1.3	Tasks ...............................................................................................................	176
25.1.4 Learning more...................................................................................................		176
25.2 Managing appliance availability...............................................................................		176
25.2.1 Best practices for managing a VM appliance........................................................		176
25.2.2 Shut down the appliance...................................................................................		177
25.2.3 Restart the appliance.........................................................................................		177
25.2.4 How the appliance handles an unexpected shutdown............................................		177
25.3 Managing the appliance settings...............................................................................		178
25.3.1 Roles...............................................................................................................		178
25.3.2 Tasks for appliance settings................................................................................		178
25.3.3 About appliance SNMP settings.........................................................................		178
25.3.4 Learning more..................................................................................................		179
25.4 Managing addresses and ID pools.............................................................................		179
25.4.1 Roles...............................................................................................................		179
25.4.2 Tasks for addresses and identifiers......................................................................		179
25.5 Managing the security features of the appliance...........................................................		179
25.6 Enabling or disabling HP support access to the appliance.............................................		180
25.6.1 Roles...............................................................................................................		180
25.6.2	Tasks ..............................................................................................................	180
25.7 Managing SSL certificates.........................................................................................		180
25.7.1	Roles ...............................................................................................................	180
25.7.2 Tasks...............................................................................................................		180
25.7.3 Learning more..................................................................................................		180
25.8 Managing the HP public key.....................................................................................		181
25.8.1 Roles...............................................................................................................		181
25.8.2 Tasks..............................................................................................................		181
25.9 Downloading audit logs............................................................................................		181
25.9.1	Roles ...............................................................................................................	181
25.9.2 Tasks...............................................................................................................		181
25.9.3 Learning more..................................................................................................		181
V Monitoring	............................................................................................	183
26 Monitoring .........................data center status, health, and performance		185
26.1 Daily .......................................................................................................monitoring		185
26.1.1 Initial ................................................................................check: the Dashboard		185
26.1.2 Activities...........................................................................................................		185
26.1.3 Utilization ..............................................................................................graphs		185
26.1.4 Monitor ..........................................................................data center temperature		186
26.2 Best practices ....................................................................for monitoring data centers		186
26.2.1 Best .......................................practices for monitoring health with the appliance UI		186
26.2.2 ..............................................Best practices for monitoring health using REST APIs		187
26.3 Managing ..................................................................................................activities		189
26.3.1 ...................................................................................................About Activity		189
26.3.2 ............................................................................Activity types: alerts and tasks		190
26.3.2.1 ..............................................................................................About alerts		190
26.3.2.2 ..............................................................................................About tasks		191

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26.3.3 Activity states...................................................................................................	192
26.3.4 Activity statuses................................................................................................	192
26.4 Using the Dashboard screen......................................................................................	193
26.4.1 About the Dashboard........................................................................................	193
26.4.2 Dashboard screen details..................................................................................	193
26.4.3 How to interpret the Dashboard graphs...............................................................	193
27 Monitoring power and temperature.....................................................	197
27.1 UI power and temperature monitoring..........................................................................	197
27.1.1 Monitoring data center temperature......................................................................	197
27.1.1.1 Manipulating the view of the data center visualization......................................	198
27.1.2 Monitoring power and temperature utilization........................................................	199
27.1.2.1 About the Utilization panel...........................................................................	199
27.1.2.2 About utilization graphs and meters..............................................................	199
27.2 REST API power and temperature monitoring................................................................	202
27.2.1 Update enclosure power capacity settings.............................................................	202
27.2.2 Update server hardware power capacity settings...................................................	202
28 Using the State-Change Message Bus (SCMB)......................................	203
28.1 Connect to the SCMB................................................................................................	203
28.2 Set up a queue to connect to the HP OneView SCMB exchange.....................................	204
28.3 JSON structure of message received from the SCMB.....................................................	205
28.4 .NET C# code example............................................................................................	206
28.5 Java code example..................................................................................................	209
28.6 Python code example...............................................................................................	210
28.7 Re-create the AMQP client certificate..........................................................................	213
VI Troubleshooting.....................................................................................	215
29 Troubleshooting................................................................................	217
29.1 Basic troubleshooting techniques.................................................................................	218
29.2 Create a support dump file........................................................................................	219
29.3 Create a support dump for authorized technical support using REST API scripting..............	220
29.4 Troubleshooting the appliance...................................................................................	221
29.4.1 First-time setup..................................................................................................	221
29.4.2 Appliance cannot access the network..................................................................	221
29.4.3 Unexpected appliance shutdown........................................................................	221
29.4.4 Appliance update is unsuccessful........................................................................	222
29.4.5 Support dump file creation action fails.................................................................	222
29.4.6 Certificate action fails.......................................................................................	222
29.4.7 Backup file creation or download action fails.......................................................	223
29.4.8 Restore action fails............................................................................................	224
29.4.9 Restart or shutdown failure.................................................................................	225
29.4.10 VM does not restart when VM host time is manually set........................................	226
29.4.11 Reinstall the remote console...............................................................................	226
29.5 Troubleshooting enclosures and enclosures groups........................................................	227
29.5.1 Add or remove enclosure is unsuccessful...............................................................	227
29.5.2 Add server blade is unsuccessful.........................................................................	229
29.5.3 Certificate Error................................................................................................	229
29.6 Troubleshooting firmware bundles...............................................................................	229
29.6.1 Incorrect credentials...........................................................................................	229
29.6.2 Lost iLO connectivity..........................................................................................	230

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29.6.3 HP SUM errors.................................................................................................	230
29.7 Troubleshooting interconnects.....................................................................................	230
29.7.1 Interconnect edit is unsuccessful...........................................................................	230
29.7.2 Interconnect modules are in Maintenance state.....................................................	230
29.8 Troubleshooting licensing..........................................................................................	230
29.8.1 Restore a license key that has been erased from an enclosure OA............................	230
29.8.2 The license assigned does not match the type specified.........................................	231
29.9 Troubleshooting logical interconnects..........................................................................	231
29.9.1 I/O bay occupancy errors..................................................................................	231
29.9.2 Uplink set warnings or errors..............................................................................	231
29.9.3 Physical interconnect warnings and errors............................................................	232
29.10 Troubleshooting networks.........................................................................................	232
29.10.1 Network create operation is unsuccessful.............................................................	232
29.11 Troubleshooting server hardware...............................................................................	232
29.11.1 Server add or remove is unsuccessful...................................................................	232
29.11.2 Cannot control power on server blade.................................................................	233
29.11.3 Lost connectivity to server hardware after appliance restarts...................................	233
29.12 Troubleshooting server profiles..................................................................................	234
29.12.1 Server profile is not created or updated correctly..................................................	234
29.12.2 What to do when you cannot apply the server profile...........................................	236
29.12.3 Profile operations fail........................................................................................	237
29.13 Troubleshooting user accounts...................................................................................	237
29.13.1 Incorrect privileges............................................................................................	237
29.13.2 Unauthenticated user or group...........................................................................	237
29.13.3 User public key is not accepted.........................................................................	238
29.13.4 Directory service not available...........................................................................	238
29.13.5 Cannot add directory service.............................................................................	238
29.13.6 Cannot add server for a directory service............................................................	239
29.13.7 Cannot add directory group..............................................................................	239
30 Restoring an appliance from a backup file...........................................	241
30.1 Roles......................................................................................................................	241
30.2 About restoring the appliance....................................................................................	241
30.3 Best practices for restoring an appliance.....................................................................	243
30.4 Restore an appliance from a backup file.....................................................................	243
30.5 Using REST APIs to restore an appliance from a backup file...........................................	245
30.6 Creating a custom script to restore an appliance..........................................................	245
30.7 Post-restoration tasks.................................................................................................	245
31 Support and other resources...................................................................	247
31.1 Gather information before contacting an authorized support representative............................	247
31.2 How to contact HP.........................................................................................................	247
31.3 Get connected to the HP OneView online user forum..........................................................	247
31.4 Software technical support and software updates...............................................................	247
31.4.1 Registering for software technical support..................................................................	247
31.4.2 Using your software technical support and update service...........................................	248
31.4.3 Obtaining HP OneView software and firmware updates..............................................	248
31.4.4 Obtaining software and drivers for HP ProLiant products.............................................	248
31.4.5 Warranty..............................................................................................................	248
31.5 Related information........................................................................................................	248
31.6 Submit documentation feedback......................................................................................	249

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A Step by step: Configuring an example data center using HP OneView	..........251
A.1 Tasks you can perform without data center hardware...........................................................	251
A.2 Information about the sample data center..........................................................................	251
A.2.1 Sample data center hardware...................................................................................	251
A.2.2 Data center networks...............................................................................................	253
A.2.2.1 Fibre Channel networks....................................................................................	253
A.2.2.2 Ethernet Networks...........................................................................................	255
A.3 Planning the configuration...............................................................................................	256
A.3.1 Planning for installation of the appliance....................................................................	256
A.3.2 Planning for network sets.........................................................................................	257
A.3.3 Planning for users and roles.....................................................................................	257
A.3.4 Planning resource names.........................................................................................	258
A.4 Installing the appliance...................................................................................................	258
A.5 Provisioning eight host servers for VMware vSphere Auto Deploy..........................................	258
A.5.1 Workflow...............................................................................................................	258
A.5.2 Downloading the latest firmware bundle and adding it to the appliance........................	259
A.5.3 Configuring the networks and network sets.................................................................	259
A.5.3.1 Configuring the Fibre Channel SAN networks......................................................	259
A.5.3.2 Configuring the Ethernet networks......................................................................	260
A.5.3.3 Configuring the network sets.............................................................................	262
A.5.4 Creating a logical interconnect group and its uplink sets..............................................	264
A.5.5 Creating an enclosure group for vSphere (ESXi) hosts...................................................	268
A.5.6 Adding the enclosure..............................................................................................	269
A.5.7 Viewing the server hardware types............................................................................	269
A.5.8 Creating a server profile to use as a template.............................................................	270
A.5.9 Copying the template server profile to eight servers.....................................................	275
A.6 Configuring a server blade to boot from the attached HP 3PAR Storage System......................	276
A.6.1 Workflow...............................................................................................................	276
A.6.2 Creating the Flat SAN networks................................................................................	276
A.6.3 Adding the enclosure that is connected to the HP 3PAR Storage System.........................	277
A.6.4 Creating the server profile........................................................................................	280
A.6.5 Collecting the WWPNs to use when configuring the HP 3PAR Storage System................	283
A.7 Bringing an HP ProLiant DL360p Gen8 rack mount server under management........................	284
A.7.1 Workflow...............................................................................................................	284
A.7.2 Adding the server hardware.....................................................................................	285
A.7.3 Powering on the server.............................................................................................	285
A.7.4 Viewing information about the server.........................................................................	285
A.7.5 Adding a license for the server..................................................................................	287
B Using the virtual appliance console...........................................................	289
B.1 Using the virtual appliance console....................................................................................	289
C Backup and restore script examples..........................................................	291
C.1 Sample backup script......................................................................................................	291
C.2 Sample restore script.......................................................................................................	302
Index.......................................................................................................	313

12 Contents

Part I Learning about HP OneView

This part describes HP OneView and its model for data center resources and introduces you to the terms and concepts used in this document and the appliance online help.

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1.1 HP OneView for converged infrastructure management

Optimized for collaboration, productivity, and reliability, the HP OneView appliance is designed to provide simple, single-pane-of-glass lifecycle management for the complex aspects of enterprise IT—servers, networking, software, power and cooling, and storage.

HP OneView is purpose-built to manage your converged infrastructure and support key scenarios such as deploying bare-metal servers, deploying hypervisor clusters from bare metal, performing ongoing hardware maintenance, and responding to alerts and outages. It is designed for the physical infrastructure needed to support virtualization, cloud computing, big data, and mixed computing environments.

HP Converged

Infrastructure

Storage

Servers

Power and cooling

Network

Management

software

Architecture

HP OneView is delivered as a virtual appliance running in a VMware vSphere virtual machine.

In contrast to management environments that require predefined serialized workflows and different tools for different tasks, HP OneView is a scalable resource-oriented solution focused on the entire life cycle—from initial configuration to on-going monitoring and maintenance—of both logical and physical resources:

•Logical resources are items such as networks, server profiles, and connections.

•Physical resources are items you can touch, such as server hardware, interconnects, and enclosures.

Software-defined flexibility—your experts design configurations for efficient and consistent deployment

The appliance provides several software-defined resources, such as groups and server profiles, to enable you to capture the best practices of your experts across a variety of disciplines, including networking, storage, hardware configuration, and operating system build and configuration. By having your experts define the server profiles and the networking groups and resources, you can eliminate cross-silo disconnects. By using RBAC (role-based access control) and the groups, sets,

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and server profiles established by your experts, you can enable system administrators to provision and manage thousands of servers without requiring that your experts be involved with every server deployment.

One tool and one data set—one view

HP OneView combines complex and interdependent data center provisioning and management into one simplified and unified interface. You use one tool and one model to:

•Provision the data center (page 16)

•Manage and maintain firmware and configuration changes (page 20)

•Monitor the data center and respond to issues (page 20)

The solution also provides core enterprise management capabilities, including:

•Availability features (page 24)

•Security features (page 24)

•Graphical and programmatic interfaces (page 25)

•Integration with other HP management software (page 26)

The appliance manages servers and enclosure networking resources, supports connections from enclosures to storage, and provides information to help you manage data center power and cooling:

•Servers are represented and managed through their server profiles. For a brief overview of server profiles, see “Server profiles” (page 17). For detailed information about server profiles, see the online help for the Server Profiles screen.

•Storage devices connect to the enclosures using either Fibre Channel Fabric attach (SAN switch) connections or Fibre Channel Direct attach (flat SAN) connections. For more information about Fibre Channel network connections for storage, see “About network connectivity” (page 135).

•Networking is an essential component to provisioning and managing data center servers. For an overview of the networking features of the appliance, see “Networking features” (page 27). For detailed information about networking and the resource model, see “Understanding the resource model” (page 29). If you are migrating a Virtual Connect configuration to HP OneView, see the white paper in the Enterprise Information Library.

•Environmental management—such as power, cooling, and space planning—requires that you consider all the equipment in the entire data center, including equipment not managed by HP OneView. HP OneView consolidates data center power and cooling information into one interface view. For an overview of the power and cooling management features, see “Data center environmental management” (page 22).

For an example of using the appliance to manage a data center, see “Step by step: Configuring an example data center using HP OneView” (page 251).

1.2 Hardware and software provisioning features

After you install the HP OneView appliance and perform the initial configuration tasks, you can quickly bring existing hardware under management and, using server profiles and other resource templates, groups, and sets, prepare for and deploy hardware to be added to your data center.

Features for provisioning hardware and bringing resources under management include:

•Server profiles (page 17)

•Groups, templates, and sets (page 17)

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•Streamlined process for bringing hardware under management (page 19)

•Operating system deployment (page 19)

1.2.1Server profiles

A server profile captures key aspects of a server configuration in one place, including firmware levels, BIOS settings, network connectivity, boot order configuration, iLO settings, and unique IDs.

Server profiles are one of the features that enable you to provision converged infrastructure hardware quickly and consistently according to your best practices. Server profiles enable your experts to specify a server configuration before the server arrives, enabling your administrators to quickly bring a new server under management when the server hardware is installed.

For example, you can create a server profile that is not assigned to a particular server, but specifies all the configuration aspects—such as BIOS settings, network connections, and boot order—to use for a type of server hardware. After the server is installed in an enclosure bay, you can do one of the following:

•Directly assign the server profile to the enclosure bay.

•Copy the server profile and assign the copy to the enclosure bay.

You can also copy or move a server profile that has been assigned to hardware in an enclosure bay. If you copy a server profile, you can save it for future use by not assigning the copy to an enclosure bay.

1.2.2 Groups, templates, and sets

Software-defined infrastructure—such as server profiles, groups, templates, and sets—enable you to:

•Use your experts to define server and networking configurations for specific environments before you install data center hardware.

•Provision hundreds of servers quickly and consistently without requiring that your experts take action for every server you deploy.

•Simplify the distribution of configuration changes across your data center.

Expert design with consistent deployment

Your experts in different technical areas can create templates, groups, and sets with their configuration best practices built in. Using these resources and server profiles, you can ensure that the infrastructure for thousands of workloads is provisioned consistently, regardless of who does the provisioning.

Server profiles capture the server configuration in once place. You can use unassigned server profiles to rapidly deploy multiple servers with the same configuration. For more information about server profiles, see “Server profiles” (page 17).

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Types of groups and sets

Group or set	Description
Enclosure group	A group of enclosures that use the same configuration, such network connectivity and firmware
	versions for the Onboard Administrator and interconnect modules. All members of an enclosure
	group use the same logical interconnect group. When you add an enclosure to the appliance
	and assign an enclosure group, the interconnects in the enclosure are configured automatically
	according to the logical interconnect group associated with the enclosure group. Enclosure
	groups enable administrators to provision multiple enclosures in a consistent, predictable
	manner in seconds.
Logical interconnect	A group of logical interconnects that share the same configuration for network connectivity. A
group	logical interconnect is the set of physical interconnects and their links, including the following:
	• Uplinks to data center networks as mapped by their uplink sets
	• Downlinks to the servers
	• Stacking links (connections to each other)
	When you or your experts define configurations using logical interconnect groups and enclosure
	groups:
	• Administrators can provision multiple enclosures with consistent network configurations in
	seconds
	• Network administrators are not required to take action every time an enclosure is installed
	because the network configuration is defined by the enclosure group.
Uplink set	A set of physical uplink ports in a logical interconnect that connect to a common set of networks.
	All member interconnects of a logical interconnect can contribute physical uplinks to an uplink
	set.
	Uplink sets can be defined as part of a logical interconnect or a logical interconnect group.
	When uplink sets are defined as part of a logical interconnect group, they act as the template
	for the uplink sets that are configured automatically when a logical interconnect is added to
	the logical interconnect group.
Network set	A set of Ethernet networks, designated by a single name. You can specify a network set instead
	of an individual network when you define a connection to data center Ethernet networks in a
	server profile. When you specify a network set in a connection, the server can access any of
	the networks in that set, including any networks that are subsequently added to that network
	set.

Define configurations for specific environments

Groups and templates enable you to define configurations that are specific to the environment you want to build, such as VMware vSphere virtual hosts, Microsoft Exchange environments, external or internal web servers, or financial database servers.

For example, to build multiple external web servers:

1.Your networking expert can create logical interconnect groups, uplink sets, networks, and network sets to establish all of the connection policies between data center networks and the interconnects managed by the appliance.

2.Your server expert can create enclosure groups, add enclosures, and create server profiles to establish all of the settings required by an external web server.

3.Your server operators can copy server profiles whenever they need to deploy this type of server.

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Flexibility in design and deployment

HP OneView provides flexibility in the creation of groups, templates, and sets. For example, you can create a logical interconnect group in these ways:

•Before you add an enclosure to the appliance, you can create a logical interconnect group that specifies how you want the interconnects to be configured, and an enclosure group that specifies how you want the enclosure to be configured.

•You can add an enclosure to the appliance and, after the appliance discovers and adds the interconnect hardware in the enclosure, you can use or modify the default logical interconnect group that the appliance creates.

Groups, templates, and sets also simplify the distribution of configuration changes across your data center. For more information about configuration changes, see “Simplified configuration change management” (page 20).

For more information about resources, including groups, templates, and sets, see “Understanding the resource model” (page 29).

1.2.3 Streamlined process for bringing hardware under management

HP OneView simplifies the process of bringing the enclosures, interconnects, and server hardware under management.

For example:

•When you add an enclosure, the appliance automatically detects all of the hardware seated in the enclosure and prepares it for you to bring under management. For example, the appliance:

◦Updates the enclosure Onboard Administrator, Virtual Connect interconnect module, and server iLO firmware to the minimum version required

◦Configures each Virtual Connect interconnect module

◦Configures the Onboard Administrator, which includes configuring NTP (Network Time Protocol) and configuring an SSO (single sign-on) certificate for UI access

◦Configures each server iLO, which includes configuring an SSO certificate for UI access

◦Configures the hardware for monitoring, which includes configuring the automatic registration of SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) traps

•When you add an HP Intelligent Power Distribution Unit (iPDU) power device, the appliance automatically detects and presents the connected devices so that you can bring the devices under management.

1.2.4Operating system deployment

Server profiles and enclosure groups make it easier to prepare a bare-metal server for operating system deployment.

For example, you can use server profiles in conjunction with deployment tools such as:

•HP Insight Control server provisioning to install an operating system on the server

•VMware vSphere Autodeploy to deploy hypervisors from bare metal and add them to existing clusters automatically

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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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Isolated management network

The appliance architecture is designed to separate the management traffic from the production network, which increases reliability of the overall solution. For example, your data center resources remain operational even in the unlikely event of an appliance outage.

Automatic configuration for monitoring

When you add resources to the appliance, they are automatically configured for monitoring, and the appliance is automatically registered to receive SNMP traps. You can monitor resources immediately without performing additional configuration or discovery steps.

Agentless and out-of-band management

All monitoring and management of HP ProLiant Gen8 (or later) servers is agentless and out-of-band for increased security and reliability. For these servers:

•There are no agents to monitor or update.

•The appliance does not require open SNMP ports on the host operating system.

•The appliance does not require an operating system on the host, which frees memory and processor resources on the host for use by server applications, and enables you to manage servers that have no host operating system installed.

Management from other platforms using the REST APIs and the SCMB

The REST APIs and the SCMB (State-Change Message Bus) also enable you to monitor the HP OneView environment from other management platforms. For more information about the SCMB, see “Using the State-Change Message Bus (SCMB)” (page 203).

Monitoring the environment and responding to issues

Features for monitoring the environment and responding to issues include the following:

•The “Dashboard screen” (page 193), which displays a summary view of data center capacity and health information

•The “Activity screen” (page 189), which displays and enables you to filter all system tasks and alerts

•Data center environmental management (page 22)

•Resource utilization monitoring (page 22)

•Activity and health management (page 22)

•Hardware and firmware inventory information (page 23)

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1.4.1 Data center environmental management

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

•Thermal data visualization in 3D

•Power delivery infrastructure representation

•Physical 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 Activity 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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•View alerts for a specific resource from the UI screen for that resource or using the REST API for that resource.

•Automatically forward SNMP traps from managed resources to enterprise monitoring consoles or centralized SNMP trap collectors.

1.4.4Hardware and firmware inventory information

HP OneView provides detailed hardware and firmware inventory information about the resources it manages. You can access the following data through the UI and the REST APIs:

•Summary and detailed views of managed hardware, such as servers, enclosures, and interconnects.

•Summary and detailed views of firmware bundle contents.

You can use the Smart Search feature of the UI to find specific items in the inventory.

1.5 Backup and restore features

HP OneView provides services to backup an appliance to a backup file, and to restore an appliance from a backup file.

One encrypted backup file for both the appliance and its database

Backup files are encrypted and contain configuration settings and management data—there is no need to create separate backup files for the appliance and its database.

Flexible scheduling and an open interface for backup operations

You can create backup files while the appliance is online. Also, you can use REST APIs to:

•Schedule a backup process from outside the appliance.

•Collect backup files according to your site policies.

•Integrate with enterprise backup and restore products.

A backup file is a snapshot of the appliance configuration and management data at the time the backup file was created. HP recommends that you create regular backups, preferably once a day and after you make hardware or software configuration changes in the managed environment.

Specialized user role for creating backup files

HP OneView provides a user role specifically for backing up the appliance by permitting access to other resource views without permitting actions on those resources, or other tasks.

Recovery from catastrophic failures

You can recover from a catastrophic failure by restoring your appliance from the backup file.

When you restore an appliance from a backup file, all management data and most configuration settings on the appliance are replaced with the data and settings in the backup file, including things like user names and passwords, audit logs, and available networks.

The state of the managed environment is likely to be different from the state of that environment at the time the backup file was created. During a restore operation, the appliance reconciles the data in the backup file with the current state of the managed environment. After the restore operation, the appliance uses alerts to report any discrepancies that it cannot resolve automatically.

For more information about backing up and restoring an appliance, see “Backing up an appliance” (page 171).

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1.6 Security features

CATA (Comprehensive Applications Threat Analysis) is a powerful HP security quality assessment tool designed to substantially reduce the number of latent security defects. The design of the HP OneView appliance employed CATA fundamentals and underwent CATA review. To ensure a secure platform for data center management, the appliance includes feature such as the following:

•Separation of the data and management environments, which is critical to avoid takeover in DoS (Denial of Service) attacks. For example, the appliance is designed to operate entirely on an isolated management LAN; access to the production LAN is not required. The managed devices remain online in the event of an appliance outage.

•RBAC (role-based access control), which enables an administrator to quickly establish authentication and authorization for users based on their responsibilities for specific resources. RBAC also simplifies what is shown in the UI:

◦Users can only view the resources for which they are authorized. For example, the appliance does not display screens that do not apply to users with the role of Network administrator, such as the Server Profiles and Server Hardware screens.

◦Users can initiate actions only for the resources for which they are authorized. For example users with the role of Network administrator can initiate actions for the network resources only, and users with the role of Server administrator can initiate actions for the server resources only.

◦Users with the role of Infrastructure administrator have full access to all screens and actions.

•Single sign-on to iLO and Onboard Administrator without storing user-created iLO or Onboard Administrator credentials.

•Audit logging for all user actions.

•Support for authentication and authorization using an optional directory service such as Microsoft Active Directory.

•Use of certificates for authentication over SSL (Secure Sockets Layer).

•A firewall that allows traffic on specific ports and blocks all unused ports.

•A UI that restricts access from host operating system users.

•Data downloads that are restricted to support dump files (encrypted by default), encrypted backup files, audit logs, and certificates.

For detailed security information, see “Understanding the security features of the appliance” (page 45).

1.7 Availability features

HP OneView separates the management appliance from the managed resources. In the unlikely event that the appliance experiences an outage, the managed resources continue to run.

HP OneView is delivered as a virtual appliance running in a VMware vSphere virtual machine. The VMware vSphere Hypervisor provides the virtual machine with high-availability and recovery capabilities that allow the virtual machine to be restarted on another host in the cluster and to resume management without disruption to the managed resources.

Configuring the appliance for availability is described in “Managing appliance availability” (page 176).

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1.8 Graphical and programmatic interfaces

The HP OneView appliance was developed to use a single, consistent resource model embodied in a fast, modern, and scalable HTML5 user interface and industry-standard REST APIs for mobile, secure access and open integration with other management software.

User interface—efficiency and simplicity by design

The UI is designed for the way you work, providing powerful, easy-to use tools, including the following:

Feature	Description
Dashboard screen	Provides a graphical representation of the general health and capacity of the resources
	in your data center. From the Dashboard you can immediately see the areas that need
	your attention
Map view	Available from each resource, the Map view enables you to examine the configuration
	and understand the relationships between logical and physical resources in your data
	center.
Smart Search box	The banner of every screen includes the Smart Search feature, which enables you to find
	resource-specific information such as specific instances of resource names, serial numbers,
	WWNs, and IP and MAC addresses.
Activity feed	The Activity feed gives you a unique perspective into the health of your environment by
	interleaving the tasks, alerts, and administrator's notes into a single view. The Activity
	feed simplifies the correlation of user activity with system health, allowing for timely
	resolution of issues.
Resource-specific	These screens enable you to focus on the resources you are authorized to view and
management screens	manage. Resource group screens enhance scalability by enabling you to manage multiple
	resources as one

The UI provides on-screen hints and tips to help you avoid and correct errors, and provides links to learn more about the tasks. At the top of each screen, the help icon gives you access to the entire help system.

For more information about the UI, see “Navigating the graphical user interface” (page 57).

REST APIs—automation and integration

HP OneView has a resource-oriented architecture that provides a uniform REST interface.

The REST APIs:

•Provide an industry-standard interface for open integration with other management platforms.

•Are designed to be ubiquitous—every resource has one URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) and represents a physical device or logical construct.

•Enable you to automate anything you can do from the UI using your favorite scripting or programming language.

•Are designed to be highly scalable.

For more information about the REST APIs, see the REST API scripting online help.

For more information about finding online help and other documentation, see “Accessing documentation and help” (page 79).

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1.9 Integration with other HP management software

Onboard Administrator

HP OneView interacts seamlessly with the Onboard Administrator to provide complete management of HP BladeSystem c7000 enclosures. A user’s Onboard Administrator privileges are determined by the role assigned to the user’s HP OneView appliance account.

HP Integrated Lights-Out

HP OneView interacts seamlessly with the iLO management processor to provide complete management of HP servers. HP OneView automatically configures the iLO according to the settings specified by the server profile. HP OneView configures seamless access to the iLO graphical remote console, enabling you to launch the iLO remote console from the HP OneView UI in a single click. Your iLO privileges are determined by the role assigned to your HP OneView appliance account.

HP Insight Control server provisioning

HP OneView server profiles enable you to configure servers for PXE boot. Insight Control server provisioning, an optional product, can then install an operating system on the server using either scripted installation or captured image deployment.

1.10 Open integration

The single, consistent resource model, REST APIs, and SCMB (State-Change Message Bus) enable you to use scripting to integrate HP OneView with other enterprise applications to address user needs and perform tasks such as:

•Automating standard workflows and troubleshooting steps

•Automating integrations with other software, such as a CMDB (content management database)

•Connecting to service desks

•Monitoring resources, collecting data, and mapping and modeling systems

•Exporting data to formats that suit your needs

•Attaching custom databases, data warehouses, or third-party business intelligence tools

•Integrating in-house user customizations

The SCMB is an interface that uses asynchronous messaging to notify subscribers of changes to managed resources—both logical and physical. For example, you can program applications to receive notifications when new server hardware is added to the managed environment or when the health status of physical resources changes—without having to continuously poll the appliance for status using the REST APIs.

For more information about the SCMB, see “Using the State-Change Message Bus (SCMB)” (page 203).

1.11 Convenient licensing model

HP OneView provides a convenient and flexible licensing model:

•Purchasing HP OneView integrated with your hardware provides the best experience—a fully automatic approach to license redemption and registration. Your software license for HP OneView and iLO Advanced is delivered embedded in the hardware you purchase, including these options:

◦A license bundle for 16 servers embedded in the enclosure Onboard Administrator.

◦A license for a single server embedded in the server iLO.

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When you add hardware with an embedded license to the appliance, the appliance automatically applies the license. Your software license is also automatically registered for support when the hardware is registered.

•You can also purchase and activate licenses separately, enabling you to add licenses for existing hardware.

•If you already have an iLO Advanced license for a server, you can purchase an HP OneView license that does not include the iLO Advanced license.

The appliance stores licenses in a pool and applies licenses to server hardware as needed. You can view information about the number of licenses available, the number of licensed servers, and the number of servers that require a license.

1.12 Networking features

The HP OneView appliance provides several networking features to streamline the provisioning of networking resources for server blades and to manage configuration changes, including firmware updates, to Virtual Connect interconnect modules.

Supported networks

The Virtual Connect interconnect modules in enclosures support the following types of data center networks:

•Ethernet for data networks

•Fibre Channel for storage networks, including Fibre Channel Fabric attach (SAN switch) connections, and Fibre Channel Direct attach (Flat SAN) connections to supported HP 3PAR storage systems.

Logical interconnects

The appliance enables you to define multiple enclosure interconnect modules as a single administrative entity called a logical interconnect, which provides universal access to data center Ethernet networks from all servers connected to any member interconnect. A logical interconnect is the set of physical interconnects and their links, including the following:

•Uplinks to data center networks as mapped by their uplink sets

•Downlinks to the servers

•Stacking links (connections to each other)

Logical interconnect groups

A logical interconnect group is a collection of logical interconnects that have the same configuration for features such as the following:

•Stacking domain

•Firmware

•Uplink sets

•Uplink port redundancy and fault tolerance

When you add an enclosure and associate it with an enclosure group, the enclosure is automatically configured according to the logical interconnect group associated with the enclosure group. This feature enables you to provision hundreds of enclosures consistently and efficiently.

After you create a logical interconnect, it continues to be associated with the logical interconnect group and reports if its configuration differs from the group.

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Network sets

You can define a collection of Ethernet data center networks to be identified by a single name, called a network set. You can specify a network set instead of an individual network when you define a connection from a server to the data center networks. By using network sets, you can make changes to networks that are members of a network set without having to make changes to each server profile that uses that network set.

Network sets are useful in virtual machine environments where each server profile connection must access multiple networks. For example, you can configure a hypervisor with a vSwitch to access multiple network VLAN IDs by creating a network set as a trunk that includes the networks that have these VLAN IDs.

For more information about networking resources, see “Understanding the resource model” (page 29).

For detailed information about the networking model for the HP OneView appliance, see “About network connectivity” (page 135).

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2 Understanding the resource model

The HP OneView appliance uses a resource model that reduces complexity and simplifies the management of your data center. This model provides logical resources, including templates, groups, and sets, that when applied to physical resources, provides a common structure across your data center.

High-level overview

• Resource model summary diagram (page 29)

Server resources

•Server profiles (page 30)

•Connections (page 31)

•Connection templates (page 30)

•Server hardware (page 32)

•Server hardware types (page 31)

Network provisioning resources

•Enclosure groups (page 33)

•Enclosure types (page 33)

•Enclosures (page 34)

•Interconnect types (page 34)

•Interconnects (page 35)

•Logical interconnect groups (page 36)

•Logical interconnects (page 37)

•Uplink sets (page 38)

Network resources

•Networks (page 39)

•Network sets (page 39)

Appliance resources

•Appliance (page 40)

•Domains (page 40)

Data center power and cooling management resources

•Data centers (page 41)

•Racks (page 41)

•Power delivery devices (page 42)

•Unmanaged devices (page 42)

Learn more

•For a complete list of resources, see the HP OneView REST API Reference in the online help.

•For information about using this appliance, see the other chapters in this guide and the online help.

2.1 Resource model summary diagram

The following figure summarizes some of the most frequently used resources and shows the relationships between them.

Figure 1 Resource model summary diagram

					Connection
					Templates
							Network
							Sets
	Server			Connections		or	Networks
	Profiles
							Domains	Appliance
	Server	Device		I/O
Power		Bay	Enclosures	Bay	Interconnects
	Hardware	Device		I/O
Delivery	Racks	Bay		Bay
Devices					Uplink Sets		Uplink Sets

Enclosure

Logical

Logical

Data

Groups

Interconnect

Interconnects

Centers

Groups

Server

Hardware

Enclosure

Interconnect

Types

Types

Types

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The UI and REST APIs are organized by resource. The documentation for the UI and REST APIs are also organized by resource.

To view the complete list of resources, see the HP OneView REST API Reference in the online help.

The following sections introduce the resources shown in Figure 1 (page 29).

2.2 Server profiles

Server profiles capture key aspects of the server configuration in one place, enabling you to provision converged infrastructure hardware quickly and consistently according to your best practices.

A server profile can contain the following configuration information about the server hardware:

•Basic server identification information

•Connections to Ethernet networks, Ethernet network sets, and Fibre Channel networks

•Firmware versions

•BIOS settings

•Boot order

•Physical or virtual UUIDs (universally unique identifiers), MAC (media access control) addresses and WWN (World Wide Name) addresses

Relationship to other resources

A server profile is associated with the following resources in the resource summary diagram (page 29):

•Zero or more connection resources. You use a connection resource to specify connection from the server to a network or network set. If you do not specify at least one connection, the server cannot connect to data center networks. The networks and network sets that are available to a server profile connection depend on the configuration of the logical interconnect of the enclosure that contains the server hardware.

•Exactly one server hardware resource, which can be either unassigned or can be located in a specific enclosure and enclosure bay.

•Exactly one server hardware type resource.

•Exactly one enclosure group resource.

To enable portability of server profiles, a server profile is associated with an enclosure group resource instead of an enclosure resource. Because enclosures in the enclosure group are configured identically, you can assign a server profile to any appropriate server hardware, regardless of which enclosure and bay in the enclosure group contains that server hardware.

UI screens and REST API resources

UI screen	REST API resource
Server Profiles	server-profiles

For more information about server profiles, see the online help for the Server Profiles screen.

2.3 Connection templates

A connection template defines default configuration characteristics, such as the preferred bandwidth and maximum bandwidth, for a network or network set. When you create a network or network set, the appliance creates a default connection template for the network or network set.

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