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What’s New

HPE Resource Aggregator for Open Distributed Infrastructure Management Release 6 includes the following enhancements and new features (described further below):

• − Queuing & prioritization of requests
• − Event subscription caching
• − Logging enhancements
• − Additional scalability and supportability enhancements
• − HPE ProLiant Gen11 server support via iLO 6
• − Continued compliance to DMTF Redfish Schema 2022.1

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Queuing and Prioritization of Requests

To handle large deployments with many servers, requests (POST, PATCH, and DELETE) issued by the Resource Aggregator can be queued and prioritized based on the priority configured for specific URIs.

Event Subscription Caching

Events received from managed systems are cross checked with client subscriptions for those events before reporting to the subscribing client. To improve system performance, this event subscription is cached, rather than pulled from the database for each event.

Logging Enhancements

For enhanced supportability in an operational environment, logs have been enhanced to improve traceability, to support Syslog and JSON formats, to enable dynamically changing log levels for internal system services, and to include debug logs for multiple internal system services.

Additional Scalability and Supportability Enhancements

To support large scale deployments, performance has been enhanced in the internal communications between tasks and the Resource Aggregator database, and by way of improvements in the addition of servers to the Resource Aggregator. Supportability enhancements also include procedures for backup and restore of system configurations, and improved handling of database failovers.

HPE ProLiant Gen11 Server Support via iLO 6

The iLO plugin for Open Distributed Infrastructure Management has been enhanced to support HPE ProLiant Gen11 servers via iLO 6. This includes the standard management functions supported on prior versions of iLO, as well as attached storage on ProLiant Gen11 servers via iLO 6 (v1.10 or later).

Continued Redfish Schema (2022.1) Support

The HPE Resource Aggregator for Open Distributed Infrastructure Management continues support for the 2022.1 Redfish Schema and Redfish Specification version 1.15.1.

Simplification and Scalability

The HPE Resource Aggregator for Open Distributed Infrastructure Management allows streamlined management of large numbers of infrastructure components in a vendor-agnostic way. Rather than functioning as a resource manager itself, each instance of the HPE Resource Aggregator for Open Distributed Infrastructure Management acts as a proxy for representing in software its associated data center infrastructure resources such as servers, storage or Ethernet fabric. In order to expedite northbound client responses when using search or other functions, the HPE Resource Aggregator for Open Distributed Infrastructure Management keeps aggregated views of common resource properties in memory.

Simplified Integration with Management and Orchestration Systems

The HPE Resource Aggregator for Open Distributed Infrastructure Management’s RESTful APIs, and its support for the industry-standard Redfish data model, make for easier integration with existing management and orchestration systems.

Open, Standards Compliant & Multivendor

The HPE Resource Aggregator for Open Distributed Infrastructure Management complies with the industry-standard DMTF Redfish data model.

The HPE Resource Aggregator for Open Distributed Infrastructure Management supports multivendor deployments. Plugins translate proprietary and legacy management protocols into an open, JSON-based RESTful API.

The HPE Resource Aggregator for Open Distributed Infrastructure Management is based on the open-source Linux Foundation Networking ODIM project (of which HPE is a founding member).

Extensible Architecture

The HPE Resource Aggregator for Open Distributed Infrastructure Management’s plugin-based architecture allows vendor-neutral support of infrastructure components.

The plugin for HPE iLO leverages the functionality of HPE iLO (built into HPE servers) to enhance the manageability of HPE servers in a distributed environment. The plugin for the HPE Aruba Networking Fabric Composer supports management of Ethernet fabrics based on select HPE Aruba Networking switches.

HPE provides a detailed Plugin Developer's Guide, together with sample code for a Generic Redfish plugin, to provide developers a starting point and a set of guidelines for creating additional plugins to work with the HPE Resource Aggregator for Open Distributed Infrastructure Management.

Compliant with Redfish Specifications (API and Data Model)

The HPE Resource Aggregator for Open Distributed Infrastructure Management complies with current Redfish specifications (as of this writing, 2022.1). Developed by DMTF, Redfish is an open, industry standard specification, API and schema, which specifies a RESTful interface and utilizes JSON and OData. The Redfish standards are designed to deliver simple and secure management for converged, hybrid IT in a multivendor environment.

RESTful APIs

Use of RESTful APIs simplifies integration with northbound management and orchestration systems, and streamlines development of vendor-specific plugins for communicating to southbound infrastructure elements. Northbound Redfish management and orchestration applications can be provided by various vendors. Plugins can be provided by their respective vendors and by the open source community.

Support for HPE Aruba Networking Fabric Composer

Via an HPE Aruba Networking Fabric Composer plugin, the HPE Resource Aggregator for Open Distributed Infrastructure Management supports management of Ethernet fabrics based on select HPE Aruba Networking switches. The HPE Aruba Networking Fabric Composer orchestrates a discrete set of switches as a single entity called a fabric which significantly simplifies operations and troubleshooting. The HPE Resource Aggregator for Open Distributed Infrastructure Management leverages HPE Aruba Networking’s datacenter orchestration solution to enable automation of various configuration and lifecycle events.

Simplified, Flexible Deployment

The HPE Resource Aggregator for Open Distributed Infrastructure Management and its iLO plugin use a Kubernetes-managed container-based deployment for flexibility and lower resource requirements than a more traditional VM-based approach.

HPE Aruba NetworkingFabric Composer and its plugin are typically deployed as a VM on any one of several standard hypervisors.

These components can be deployed on one or multiple servers in the data center being managed, depending on the needs of a specific installation. The HPE Resource Aggregator for Open Distributed Infrastructure Management, its iLO plugin, and HPE Aruba Networking Fabric Composer can be deployed manually or via the HPE NFV Platform Software (NPS) toolkit.

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