HP OneView - Manual (Page 15)

1 Learning about HP OneView
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.
Management
software
Servers Storage
Network
Power and cooling
HP Converged
Infrastructure
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:
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Logical resources are items such as networks, server profiles, and connections.
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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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