HP OneView - Manual (Page 19)

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Streamlined process for bringing hardware under management (page 21)
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Operating system deployment (page 21)
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Storage provisioning and management (page 21)
1.2.1 Server 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:
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Directly assign the server profile to the enclosure bay.
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Copy the server profile and assign the copy to the enclosure bay.
You can 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.
You can also assign a server profile to an empty bay and the server profile is automatically applied
to the server hardware when an appropriate server is inserted into the bay, or set the association
of the server profile to either a device bay or a device bay and a server hardware physical UUID
when you remove or replace the server hardware. For more information, see
“About server
profiles” (page 128) .
1.2.2 Groups, templates, and sets
Software-defined infrastructure—such as server profiles, groups, templates, and sets—enable you
to:
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Use your experts to define server and networking configurations for specific environments
before you install data center hardware.
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Provision hundreds of servers quickly and consistently without requiring that your experts take
action for every server you deploy.
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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 19) .
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