HPE GreenLake for Compute Ops Management – OneView Edition (The “Service”) is an optional add-on subscription service to HPE OneView that aggregates connections of instances across the datacenter or distributed locations and provides customers with a centralized, cloud-based console for multi-site management support, with enhanced appliance configuration consistency, reporting, analytics, and support automation. Giving HPE OneView customers a cloud management experience through the HPE GreenLake cloud platform, this solution allows the customer to have remote access to sites running HPE OneView and manage server profiles for purpose of cloning and ensuring consistency across server profiles/appliances.

As part of the Service, HPE authorizes Customer to access the Service during the term in accordance with the Agreement.

Key Capabilities of the platform includes (but not limited to):

• Fleet Server Management
• Server Lifecycle Management

  • Seamless firmware upgrades with Intelligent delta-only based updates
  • Group-based firmware management that can be scheduled or on-demand
  • Serial and parallel firmware updates with ‘Stop on failure’ option
  • Automatic and on-demand iLO firmware updates
  • Firmware update with iSUT & AMS integration along with BIOS settings
  • Ability to support RAID0, RAID1 & RAID5 storage configurations
  • Automatic update of firmware baseline
  • Set group firmware baseline and compliance monitoring and in-app alert
  • Automatic and on-demand firmware compliance checking
  • OS Image deployment
• Consolidates OneView instances via a central console to monitor and manage servers via a single OneView Edition (OVE) user interface (UI) across instances.

  • See complete server inventory of all one-view managed servers from a single console both graphically within the UI and as an exportable report.
  • Take action on servers centrally via the OVE UI
  • Get server status and alerts across instances via the OVE UI
  • Centrally see and manage profiles and templates across OneView instances
• Supportability

  • Automatic creation of HPE support cases for critical serviceable events
  • Notification of critical hardware alerts via in-app and email notifications
  • On-demand firmware compliance reporting
  • Ability to track audit logs on individual servers via the Activity tab
  • Remote console into respective iLOs using a web browser with HTML5 support
  • Exporting the server inventory from the COM UI
• Identity & Access Management

  • Role-based Access Control (RBAC)
  • Single Sign-on (SSO)
  • Resource-level restriction policies (RRP)
• Integrations

  • REST API support
  • VMware vCenter Lifecycle Manager (vLCM) plug-in module

    • HPE Compute Ops Management simplifies the management of compute operations by providing a centralized cloud-based platform. It now includes integration with VMWare vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM), allowing for easy firmware and driver updates for HPE Proliant Servers directly from the vCenter console.
  • ServiceNow API integration

3.1. Support includes:

All Compute Ops Management products include 24x7 HPE Services Support that covers the following at no additional charge:

• HPE GreenLake account setup
• Basic device onboarding
• initial device connection to HPE GreenLake Common Cloud Service
• Subscription entitlement assignment to a device
• General Technical Guidance
• 24x7 Software Support
• Self-serve support is offered through in-app help and videos, as well as a community support board: http://www.hpe.com/forum/computeopsmanagement
• Connectivity between the on-premises and/or public cloud environment, the HPE Greenlake Cloud Platform, iLO, HPE GreenLake for Compute Ops Management, and the HPE Firmware update service, and global SPP file shares where FW updates and patches are kept.

3.2. HPE Support for SaaS includes:

General technical guidance and troubleshooting of the cloud and/or on-premise components of the Service for:

• Service activation.
• Operation of the SaaS Software
• Connectivity between the on-premise location(s) and / or the public cloud environment, the HPE GreenLake Cloud Platform and the SaaS software used in the Service.

  • Tech tips knowledge library
  • Expert forum response
  • Expert on-line chat Notes: HPE Support for SaaS is available 24 hours per day, 7 days per week including HPE holidays.

4.1. Pre-Release Materials

HPE may make available to Customer certain software, features, functionality, improvements, and/or enhancements in advance of their general availability (Pre-Release Materials). Customer agrees the Pre-Release Materials: (i) are not to be used in a production environment; (ii) may or may not ever be made generally available by HPE as part of an update or otherwise; (iii) are not under warranty or support; (iv) are not at the level of compatibility, performance and/or scalability of the Service as the case may be; (v) may not operate correctly; and, (vi) may be subject to additional terms and conditions that are specific to such Pre-Release Materials. Customer agrees to notify HPE of any bugs, errors or problems with respect to Pre-Release Materials.

4.2. Support Exclusions

HPE support obligations do not apply to any unavailability, suspension or termination of the Service, or performance issues: (i) resulting from a suspension of the Service and/or support as described in this Service Description and the HPE aaS Terms for Customers; (ii) caused by factors outside of HPE reasonable control, including any force majeure event, Internet access or related problems outside the Service; (iii) resulting from any actions or inactions of Customer or any third party; (iv) resulting from Customer equipment, software or other technology and/or third party equipment, software or other technology (other than third party equipment within HPE direct control); or (v) arising from our suspension and termination of Customer’s right to use the Service in accordance with this Service Description and HPE aaS Terms for Customers (collectively, the Support Exclusions).

5.1. Data Removal

Unless HPE terminates all or a portion of the Service or the Agreement for cause, Customer will have an opportunity, upon request, to remove all Customer data from the Service for a period of thirty (30) days following the termination date of the Customer’s account (Data Removal Period).

HPE may, at HPE's sole option, delete any and all Customer Data from HPE's Service, website or any other data storage systems, including without limitation any and all backup copies thereof post-Data Removal Period. HPE is not responsible for (i) any deletion of Customer Data (at any time) by Customer nor (ii) deletion, destruction, damage, loss or failure by Customer to backup any of Customer’s Data removed by HPE post Data Removal Period.

New features introduced to the Service are immediately available for use. If the new feature is a billable feature, the new feature will be introduced with a set list price, with discounts to the list price potentially available through volume and fixed term subscription commitments.

6.1. Termination of a Subscription

The Service will notify the Customer of the approaching expiry of a subscription. The Customer can purchase a follow-on subscription before the current subscription expires. The follow-on subscription will start after the expiry of the current subscription making the Service continuous.