HP OneView for VMware vCenter - Manual (Page 4)

1 Introduction
HP OneView for VMware vCenter Operations Manager provides integrated and highly automated
performance, capacity, configuration compliance, and cost management tools to the vCenter
Operations Manager custom GUI. The software uses the vCOPS analytics engine that analyzes
what is normal and then applies those norms to a dynamic server environment. For information on
vCenter Operations Manager, see VMware vCenter Operations Manager Enterprise documentation
at
http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vcops-pubs.html .
When the HP OneView for VMware vCenter Operations Manager is installed, the custom HP
OneView Dashboard is added to the vCenter Operations Manager custom GUI.
The HP OneView Dashboard allows you to monitor resources in a vCenter environment. The
attributes that can be monitored include: resource health, power and temperature, and system
alerts. The analytics engine allows for proactive monitoring of the HP OneView resource environment
and indicates the state of the resources. If a problem occurs, an alert is triggered and displayed.
The analytics engine also provides for proactive prediction which can determine the point in the
future when a resource will reach a critical level.
The HP OneView for VMware vCenter Operations Manager can be installed with the standard
edition. Once you install the standard edition, you can upgrade to VMware vCenter Operations
Manager Advanced edition when your redeem your HP OneView license. See
“Licensing” (page 7)
for more information.
4 Introduction