HP OneView - Manual (Page 170)

When you add an enclosure to the appliance, it automatically creates a rack and places the
enclosure in it. The appliance places into the rack all enclosures connected by management link
cables. When enclosures are added, the appliance places them in the rack from top to bottom.
When an enclosure is placed in an HP Intelligent Series Rack, the enclosure slots are automatically
detected. For other racks, to accurately depict the layout of your enclosures within the rack you
must edit the rack to place the enclosure in the proper slots.
You can use the appliance to view and manage your rack configuration and power delivery
topology. You can specify the physical dimensions of the rack (width, height, and depth), the
number of U slots, and the location of each piece of equipment in the rack. You can specify the
rack PDUs that provide power to the rack, and their physical position in the rack or on either side.
You can also describe how the devices in the rack are connected to those PDUs.
The appliance automatically discovers the rack height and rack model for a ProLiant server with
Location Discovery Services and updates the physical locations of devices when they are relocated
within and between racks.
NOTE: When the appliance discovers an HP Intelligent Series Rack, it sets the rack height
automatically using the HP Intelligent Rack Location Discovery Services. For non-intelligent racks
or for empty racks, the default rack height is 42U.
After adding a rack to the appliance for management, you can add the rack to a data center to
visualize the data center layout and to monitor device power and cooling data.
After the rack is under management, you can configure the power delivery topology with redundant
and uninterruptible power supplies to the devices in the rack.
Rack naming
The way a rack is named and how you change the name of a rack depends on how it was added
to the appliance.
Table 9 Rack naming
Name change method Initial naming method Add method
Change rack name from enclosure OA Defined by enclosure OA Automatically added when the appliance
discovers an enclosure the rack contains
Edit rack Assigned using rack serial
number as rack name Automatically discovered from a ProLiant server
with Location Discovery Services
Edit rack Defined by the user Manually from the Racks screen
22.4 Learning more
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“Monitoring power and temperature” (page 209)
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“About utilization graphs and meters” (page 211)
170 Managing power, temperature, and the data center