The foundation of software-defined infrastructure

HPE OneView is a software-defined infrastructure management platform that empowers organizations to simplify and automate the management of their IT infrastructure. Optimized for on-premises infrastructure, dark site environments, and HPE Synergy platforms. HPE OneView provides a centralized interface to manage and monitor servers, storage, and networking devices, ensuring seamless integration and efficient management of diverse infrastructure environments. HPE OneView’s template-driven approach for deploying, provisioning, and updating improves users’ operational efficiency and accelerates service delivery. Designed with a modern, standards-based API, HPE OneView helps users develop applications faster through integrations with a broad ecosystem of third-party management services and tools.

Supported Products

User Experience

A unified user experience is provided in HPE OneView to simplify everyday tasks and processes. Converged management provides you with a variety of powerful, easy-to-use tools in a single interface that's designed for the way you think and work.

Map View

Allows you to visualize the relationships between your devices, up to the highest levels of your data center infrastructure.

Dashboard

Provides capacity and health information at your fingertips. Custom views of alerts, health, and configuration information can also be displayed for detailed scrutiny.

Smart Search

Instantly gets you the information you want for increased productivity, with search support for all the elements in your inventory (for example, to search for alerts).

Activity View

Allows you to display and filter all system tasks and alerts.

Mobile access

Using a scalable, modern user interface based on HTML5.

HPE OneView Global Dashboard

HPE OneView Global Dashboard helps your IT staff troubleshoot alerts and view core inventory data for up to 75 HPE OneView appliances and 20,000 servers in multiple data centers across the globe. It provides a unified view of health of all resources managed by HPE OneView including HPE ProLiant servers, HPE Synergy, HPE BladeSystem, HPE Apollo, HPE SimpliVity, HPE Alletra, HPE 3PAR, HPE Primera, HPE Superdome and HPE Superdome Flex systems. In context launch to HPE OneView, iLO and Onboard Administrator via single sign on enables powerful device lifecycle management.

HPE OVGD provides holistic observability and reporting for HPE OneView customers. This is critical for customers using HPE OneView to manage large-scale, distributed server footprints, and customers with environments comprised of both HPE Synergy and HPE ProLiant rackmount solutions.

For the latest fixes and security enhancements HPE recommends updating HPE OneView Global Dashboard to the latest version available. HPE OneView Global Dashboard continues to be tested and maintained with HPE OneView releases. In addition, HPE Support Center continues to assist users with active support contracts to help resolve any issue.

HPE Compute Ops Management – OneView Edition

HPE has created a new service, called HPE Compute Ops Management – OneView Edition, that will allow customers to have a cloud experience for their HPE OneView instances from within HPE GreenLake platform. This add-on subscription service aggregates connections to locations running HPE OneView appliances and provides customers with a centralized, cloud-based console for multi-site management support, with enhanced appliance configuration consistency, reporting, analytics, and support automation. Key features include:

• − OneView Appliance onboard process (OV-cloud adapter)
• − Connected appliance details (IP/FQDN, version, type)
• − Full server inventory view
• − Server resource alerts
• − Server profile association and base inventory
• − Unification of OneView Server Inventory with COM Server Inventory
• − GreenLake Platform Sustainability Dashboard power and thermal utilization integration, including server location data
• − Upgrade HPE OneView from HPE COM-OneView Edition
• − Copy Server Profile Templates between HPE OneView appliances
• − Automatically Tracking of Settings Compliance
• − Upfront Billing
• − Subscription + Consumption model

HPE OneView instances must be running at a minimum of version 8.4

Platforms supported (within OneView support matrix):

• − HPE ProLiant – Gen8 and newer
• − HPE Synergy – Gen9 and newer
• − HPE Apollo – Gen9 and newer
• − HPE Superdome Flex and newer

To use HPE Compute Ops Management – OneView Edition, a subscription must be purchased. SKU= S0P96AAE HPE Compute Ops Management – OneView Edition.

24x7 support is included with the subscription at no additional charge. The HPE Services Team will assist users with HPE GreenLake account setup and Compute Ops Management – OneView Edition questions and issues

The Subscription is:

• − Licensed per server device
• − Initiated with a minimum commit for billing
• − Priced on the number of devices that you license for connection to COM – OneView Edition
• − Billed monthly with 1/3/5yr term payment
• − Additional server devices added during the month, above the minimum, are billed within a consumption model monthly usage above the minimum

Dynamic collaboration

Among experts replaces static and manual use of whiteboards, sticky notes, emails, and spreadsheets. The single integrated platform provides ‘one view’ across the converged infrastructure, enabling collaboration through real-time, context-sensitive information sharing.

HPE OneView continues to advance software-defined intelligence with a new updated user interface for provisioning, updating, and integrating compute, storage, and networking infrastructure. This UI update makes HPE OneView even easier to use

Management appliance

The HPE OneView management appliance is the lifecycle management tool that provisions, monitors, updates, and repairs your infrastructure. It is delivered as a virtual appliance running in a VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, or KVM virtual machine. The appliance is 'OS-agnostic' − for example, it can manage servers running both Windows and Linux operating systems. Appliance upgrade support is also provided to help existing users to move to the current version of HPE OneView.

HPE OneView provides a secure platform for data center management. Key security characteristics of the architecture provide a holistic basis for security:

• − Separation of the data and management planes is critical to avoid takeover in Denial of Service (DoS) attacks.
• − Use of groups incorporates and institutionalizes best security practices for compliance.
• − Provisioning control assures standardization in mass deployments.
• − Deployed via a hardened appliance platform.

Industry-standard enterprise Directory Services are utilized to confirm user identification and to control access to compute resources. This allows one administrator to quickly set up authentication and authorization for each user, as appropriate to their responsibilities and organizational associations, for specific categories of compute resources.

Role-based access control (RBAC) restricts system access to authorized users.

Scopes enables creation of any logical group of enclosures, server hardware, networks or LIGs. Can create a logical group based on business unit – finance, sales, etc. or could be by OS installed on the servers – Windows, Linux, ESX. GUI Restricted Scope Filtering provides OneView administrators the ability to restrict access of various users to a subset of resources managed by the appliance. This is a large benefit to IT operation teams and service providers who have a requirement to limit or partition views to only the resources that the IT operations representative or service provider account has the appropriate permission to access.

Single-sign-on (SSO) to iLO and Onboard Administrator is provided in HPE OneView. All user actions are logged in an audit log. Options for LDAP/AD-based directory services authentication and authorization are also supported.

The HPE OneView management appliance is security-hardened with limited open ports, limited access to the command prompt, and a restricted "kiosk" graphical user interface (which prevents access to the underlying operating system and other software). Sensitive data on the appliance is encrypted and data downloaded from the appliance is encrypted by default (e.g., support dumps, backup files).

Appliance backups for the HPE OneView management appliance utilize a specific user role which does not permit access to other resource views and tasks. Backup files are encrypted and contain configuration settings and management data. There is no need to create separate backup files for the appliance and its database files. Backups can be created while the HPE OneView appliance is online, and the backup process can be scheduled from outside the management appliance with file collection set according to your site’s policies. Can be scheduled daily or weekly and can be performed on demand. It can back up to a remote share.

A new appliance configuration report is available within any of the built-in reports on the appliance, as an Excel file. The configuration detail includes active alerts, iLO addresses, enclosure and server inventory, server profile inventory, and HPE OneView update history.

All updates to HPE OneView 6.0 and newer will use an image-based update process, which will deliver faster and more reliable updates. With the new image-based update process, a new image is installed to replace the prior image. The new process removes the potential risk of failure involved in updating all the individual components as previously seen in prior updating process.

HPE OneView Update Readiness Checker

The HPE OneView Update Readiness Checker evaluates the HPE OneView appliance health by looking for a set of known conditions that may impact a successful update, and if an issue is found it will provide the remediation steps. New items to check are regularly added to the HPE OneView Update Readiness Checker and the latest version is available online at: hpe.com/support/ov-urc. New within the HPE OneView 5.3 GUI is a direct link to get the latest HPE OneView Update Readiness Checker.

Maintenance Mode

This feature allows a Server administrator or Infrastructure administrator to put a server into a new mode, called Maintenance Mode. When a server is placed into this mode, email notifications are suppressed for just that resource, until the administrator manually disables the mode. With maintenance mode enabled, administrators will no longer be distracted by notifications for events that happen during routine operations such as a server reboot. Administrators can now use common multi-select techniques –CTRL or Shift and select to quickly enable or disable maintenance mode for multiple servers at the same time. This reduces the need to individually set this setting on multiple server hardware resources.

HPE OneView Remote Support

HPE OneView provides integrated remote support that is part of the appliance. The customer can easily and securely register for remote support after providing contact information and any support partner details. Remote support can be enabled for all eligible devices, or for single devices at a time. Hardware failures will automatically trigger a support case to be opened with HPE. The Case ID is provided in the OneView Service Event, with further case status updates via optional integration with Insight Online. HPE OneView Remote Support also provides contract & warranty information per device, and weekly alerts, with a downloadable CSV file listing any devices that have expired or are within 90, 60 or 30 days of expiry. With the latest release rack location information is included in the support tickets and email notification which helps identify which servers need attention and locate that device more conveniently.

HPE OneView Remote Technician

Speed issue resolution with HPE OneView Remote Technician. With HPE OneView Remote Technician, troubleshooting and resolving support issues is faster and easier. At your invitation, authenticated HPE Support technicians access your HPE OneView appliance through a secure TLS connection to troubleshoot and diagnose issues.

You do not have to be present when a trusted HPE Support technician diagnoses the issue, including downloading logs directly without the need for an FTP site. HPE OneView Remote Technician is built into HPE OneView 4.1 and later – no additional applications needed. To access HPE OneView Remote Technician, open the Diagnostics menu within the HPE OneView Settings page.

Notes: That it does not require HPE OneView Remote Support.

Licenses

The HPE OneView management appliance controls licenses. The same management appliance can be used for both HPE OneView Advanced licenses and for HPE OneView Standard. This choice is made by the user when they initially add their system to the HPE OneView management appliance.

HPE OneView Advanced

Provides full-featured licenses which can be purchased for managing Gen8, Gen9, Gen10, and Gen10 Plus servers. All HPE OneView Advanced versions are licensed ‘per physical server.’ These licenses include three years of 24x7 Technical Support and Updates (TS&U) with web-based training (WBT) to build basic product proficiency. Trial versions of HPE OneView Advanced can be used for 60-days without charge.

HPE OneView Advanced licenses are available in a variety of types to meet different user needs:

• − Standalone licenses can be ordered by the customer without any other restrictions. Customers will receive a license entitlement certificate, which must be redeemed online to obtain the license activation key, and then the key input into the management appliance.
• − Factory integrated licenses are purchased with HPE ProLiant servers and HPE BladeSystem and provide a ‘Connect and Go’ user experience. License keys are preloaded on the systems and are immediately managed by the HPE OneView management appliance when connected.
• − Tracking licenses provide customer-specific, pay-as-you-go enterprise licensing. Tracking licenses require customer pre-approval of an Activation Key Agreement (AKA) contract. For more information, see https://www.hpe.com/info/AKA
• − Upgrade licenses are available to transition from HPE Integrated Lights-Out (iLO) Advanced, HPE Insight Control, or HPE Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager (VCEM).

Notes: Upgrades do not provide HPE iLO Advanced licenses or ‘integrated licensing’ rights-to-use HPE Insight Control.

HPE OneView Standard

Can be used for inventory, health monitoring, alerting, and reporting without additional fees. HPE OneView Standard can monitor Gen8, Gen9, Gen10, and Gen10 Plus ProLiant DL, ML and Apollo servers. The user interface is similar to the HPE OneView Advanced version, but the software-defined functionality is not available. An annual 9x5 support offering is available for an additional fee.

Software Versions

The HPE OneView management appliance controls the licenses, and it can be obtained from HPE Software Depot

Automate SAN Zoning on Fibre Channel SANs

Switched fabric, and direct attach (FlatSAN) SAN topologies are supported to configure data paths between HPE OneView managed servers, HPE 3PAR StoreServ, Alletra 9000, and StoreVirtual Storage Systems. HPE OneView supports the following infrastructure devices:

• − HPE 3PAR StoreServ, HPE Primera Storage systems and Alletra 9000 connected directly to an enclosure. (FC protocol)
• − HPE 3PAR StoreServ, HPE Primera Storage Systems and Alletra 9000 connected to HPE B-series or Brocade Fibre Channel SAN switches (SANs - managed through the HPE B-Series SAN Network Advisor or Brocade Network Advisor (BNA) software) (FC protocol)
• − HPE FlexFabric SAN switches (FC or FCoE protocol)
• − Cisco Nexus/MDS switches (FC or FCoE protocol)

Automatic SAN Zoning

You can add Storage Area Network (SAN) Managers into OneView to enable automated SAN zoning on the SAN. Managed SANs can be associated with Fibre Channel networks on the appliance to enable automated zoning and automatic detection of Fibre Channel connectivity. HPE OneView automatically configures SAN zoning when constructing data paths from servers to SAN storage volumes – drive by server profile volume attachments. The latest release of HPE OneView provides faster provisioning for SAN volumes for HPE ProLiant DL and Apollo servers. Instead of taking hours to manually provision storage for DL and Apollo servers, HPE OneView automation allows IT administrators to complete the task in minutes with just a few clicks.

Brocade FOS REST API Support

HPE OneView provides a migration path away from Brocade Network Advisor for automated SAN zoning to the new Brocade FOS REST API.

Primera Support

This feature supports server profile & template driven experience provisioning and attaching of Primera storage. Includes the ability to auto provision boot & data storage for servers from Primera arrays, auto configure Fibre Channel data paths between servers & Primera volumes, SAN auto-zoning, and enable OneView users to take advantage of Primera suite of storage data services. This feature supports multiple server types including Synergy, c-Class and Rack Servers

SAN storage path load balancing to multi-node/couplet - 3PAR, Primera, Nimble, Alletra 6000 and 9000

Provides customers enhanced customer experience by providing the ability to perform SAN volume attachment configuration path load balancing across Primera/3PAR/Nimble/Alletra 6000 and 9000 nodes and couplets for "best practice" fault tolerance auto-configuration of paths. The customer benefit of this capability is it allows customers to create and assign server profiles from a single Server Profile Template with SAN storage (boot & data), and their volume attach path configuration will automatically be load balanced across the SAN and storage system resources.

Network Management

Network management using HPE Virtual Connect

HPE Virtual Connect provides a wire-once, change-ready environment to make it easy for administrators to manage their dynamic network environment at the server edge. HPE OneView Advanced simplifies the deployment of various Virtual Connect environments: single enclosure, racks of enclosures in a single data center, and across data centers.

The software-defined nature of HPE OneView Advanced extends HPE Virtual Connect features using Profiles, Logical Interconnect Groups, and Network Sets to simplify management and capture best practices:

• − Profiles enable servers that are licensed using HPE OneView Advanced to configure the Virtual Connect capabilities and support dynamic network changes. Virtual Connect administrators can change pre-existing connection networks and connection bandwidth without powering down blade servers.
• − Logical Interconnect Groups are created for configuring the Virtual Connect module with its uplinks and associated networks, enabling efficient application to multiple Virtual Connect environments.
• − Network Sets are used to easily update multiple networks in various profiles from a single location, rather than updating each network separately. Network sets are useful in virtual environments where each profile connection needs to access multiple networks.

Fibre Channel support in HPE Virtual Connect includes the HPE Virtual Connect 8Gb 24-Port Fibre Channel Module and HPE Virtual Connect 8Gb 20-Port Fibre Channel Module, and FlexFabric supports the next-generation HPE Virtual Connect FlexFabric-20/40 F8 Module, HPE VC FC 8Gb 24–Port, and HPE VC FC 16Gb 24–Port.

Active-Active configuration support for Virtual Connect allows full use of all uplink ports in an uplink set, reduces the oversubscription rates for server-to-network-core traffic for more predictable traffic patterns, and provides faster link failure detection and failover times. Optimized for North/South traffic patterns, the Active/Active configuration support can be combined with the SmartLink to allow NIC teaming drivers to transmit on both adapter ports and maintain redundancy.

Advanced capabilities support untagged traffic, VLAN tunneling, and configurable Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) timers, min/max bandwidth settings on connections, visibility to MAC address tables, ‘per FlexNIC’ traffic statistics and performance monitoring, and enhanced detection-protection-reporting of Pause Flood and Network Loops.

General network management

HPE OneView Advanced also provides network capabilities for HPE BladeSystem which do not use HPE Virtual Connect for networking. The ‘Networking’ section of the HPE OneView Advanced main menu has added a ‘New Switches’ resource to assist in these efforts. The following switches can be monitored: Cisco Nexus 5548 switch, the Cisco Nexus 5596 switch, and the Cisco Nexus 6001 switch.

System Health

Efficient data views and effective control enable you to respond to issues for managing the health of HPE ProLiant servers. Both HPE OneView Standard and HPE OneView Advanced simplify monitoring by providing a streamlined, modern alert management architecture. When managed resources are added to the appliance, they are automatically set up for monitoring, including the automatic registration of SNMP traps and scheduling of health data collection. HPE ProLiant Gen8 Gen9, Gen10 and Gen10 Plus servers are monitored immediately without requiring you to invoke additional configuration or discovery steps.

All monitoring and management of data center devices is agentless and out-of-band for increased security and reliability. No OS software is required, no open SNMP ports on the host OS are required (for Gen8, Gen9, Gen10, and Gen10 Plus), and zero downtime updates can be performed for these embedded agents.

HPE OneView Standard and HPE OneView Advanced both provide proactive alert notifications via email (instead of using SNMP trap forwarding) and automated alert forwarding. You can view all alerts, filter your alerts, and search your alerts using HPE Smart Search. Alerts can be assigned to specific users and annotated with notes from administrators. Notifications or traps can be automatically forwarded to enterprise monitoring consoles or to centralized SNMP trap collectors. Admins can create alert filters on groups of devices – so different admins can only see the alerts for the systems that they are responsible for maintaining.

HPE ProLiant Gen 11 servers and HPE OneView

Server hardware alerts in OneView are based on Redfish events and not SNMP traps, and therefore, there will be differences in the alerts and the alerts descriptions/resolutions between pre-Gen11 and Gen11 servers. User can now view more alerts with DMTF industry standard messaging

Customized dashboard capability allows you to select and display important inventory, health, or configuration information and to define custom queries for new dashboard displays. The single user interface provides additional summary views of firmware revisions and of the hardware inventory for servers, storage, and networks. Other data and inventory elements are visible through the user interface and REST API and can be found using HPE Smart Search.

Firmware Updates and Configuration Change Management

HPE OneView Advanced leverages and extends the HPE Smart Update portfolio of HPE Service Pack for ProLiant (SPP) and HPE Smart Update Manager (HPE SUM) for breakthrough system maintenance at the scale of your data center. HPE SPP and HPE SUM provide capabilities to systematically update HPE ProLiant servers and blade infrastructures with one-click simplicity. HPE OneView Advanced extends these capabilities with software-defined approaches and with firmware baselines for efficient, reliable, non-disruptive, and simple firmware management across the data center.

The firmware repository in HPE OneView Advanced allows you to manage multiple versions of HPE Service Pack for ProLiant (SPP). An SPP is a comprehensive collection of firmware and system software components (including drivers, agents, utilities, firmware packages for HPE ProLiant servers, controllers, storage, blades, enclosures, and other options). SPP collections are all tested together as a single solution stack. HPE OneView Advanced deploys the SPP across your environment according to your business practices and provides automatic firmware updates for a variety of uses:

• − Identify firmware compatibility issues.
• − Set a firmware baseline on devices to establish a desired firmware state.
• − Add devices while performing minimum required firmware checks and highlighting out-of-compliance devices for updates with the selected firmware baseline.
• − Update firmware for an entire enclosure, or individually for components.
• − Apply firmware baselines to servers as a part of the server profile, while maintaining flexibility for specific servers to differ from an enclosure's baseline.
• − Firmware updates in HPE OneView Advanced are driven by server profiles using HPE Smart Update Manager (HPE SUM) for efficiency at scale. Firmware update operations do not impact your production LAN in any way because they are performed entirely via the management LAN. These same processes can be used to simplify configuration change management across your data center.
• − The latest release of HPE OneView introduces an innovative concept for managing firmware compliance at scale for all Gen10 servers as well as shared infrastructure for HPE BladeSystem and Synergy. When a new firmware baseline (Service Pack for ProLiant) is loaded, HPE OneView generates a new Firmware Compliance view. HPE OneView will compare the installed firmware versions of the managed hardware with the new component versions in the added SPP and will generate this compliance report.
• − Additionally, this feature allows the user to apply various filter views and export into excel and csv formats.
• − This new approach provides a quick and easy way to identify critical security updates at scale. This feature automates compliance reporting and protects against configuration drift (which ensures configuration consistency across the infrastructure).
• − Notification of new HPE Service Pack content - HPE OneView provides an option to receive notifications of when new HPE Service Pack for ProLiant (SPP) or HPE Synergy Service Packs (SSP) have been released. Within the user interface (UI) you can opt in to receive connected notifications from HPE. Additional details about the release are also included in the UI to help you make an informed decision about updating. A direct to the HPE portal for downloading the content is also available in the UI.
• − Policy option for firmware management reduces firmware downgrade time Users can now downgrade firmware version without Force option turned on. With this enhancement, HPE OneView re-installs firmware only for devices which have newer firmware versions than baseline. As a result, it significantly reduces the time it takes for the downgrade operation inventory-based firmware updates.
• − If a user enables the Check for updates feature in HPE OneView, the discovered Updates can be used for selection as a baseline during Firmware Update on Server Hardware.
• − Selecting an Update for the baseline results in an inventory-based firmware download approach, where HPE OneView will connect to HPE and directly download just the components that are needed to update the server.
• − Support for HPE ProLiant Gen10 and later server hardware only.

Support for firmware updates without server profile

• − Ability to deploy a generally distributed or custom SPP to a server without the need to create/deploy a server profile. With this enhancement HPE OneView Standard enables only basic software deployment and requires an HPE iLO license. No firmware compliance checking is performed for firmware updated outside a profile.

Software or firmware updates based on Inventory

• − The HPE OneView software or firmware update feature is enhanced to allow automatic component downloads directly from HPE. This feature leverages the device inventory information for each server, only downloading exactly what is needed for a given server to be flashed for a new Service Pack for ProLiant (SPP) release. When opting for this direct-to-cloud feature, you can automatically receive updates as soon as components are released from HPE.

Reports

Standardized reports are available to users of both HPE OneView Standard and HPE OneView Advanced. A pre-defined list of reports is available from the user interface or through the REST API. These reports can be exported to CSV or Microsoft Excel files. Pre-defined reports include alerts, users, server inventory, server firmware, enclosure, and interconnect inventory reports.

Reports are based on HPE OneView inventory, configuration, and health status information. Additional data and information can be obtained for custom reporting by querying the REST API.

To view aggregated information about HPE OneView appliances and resources across data centers, customers can also use the HPE OneView Global Dashboard reports. Customers can save, email, or schedule these reports. Predefined HPE OneView Global Dashboard reports include Firmware Compliance, Remote Support Service Events, Server Inventory, SPP Bundles, Warranty and contracts, Interconnect inventory and Licenses reports.

Remote management (HPE iLO Advanced)

HPE OneView Advanced licenses iLO Advanced, The HPE comprehensive lights-out remote management solution for ProLiant servers. Numerous key features help to solve complex IT problems, including:

• − Remote access to server power control and event logs.
• − Graphical Remote Console turns a supported browser into a virtual desktop, giving the user full control over the display, keyboard, and mouse of the host server. The OS-independent console displays remote host server activities (like shutdown/startup operations) and can be launched from the HPE OneView server profile page.
• − Shared console and Console replay allows up to six team members to view and share control of a single virtual KVM session, while capturing and saving screen video for later review.
• − USB-based Virtual Media allows an IT administrator to boot the remote server from the client machine (or anywhere on the client's network) and execute functions remotely.
• − Integration with Microsoft Terminal Services provides a graphical remote console when the OS is fully loaded /available on the host system – and a secure, hardware-based Lights-Out console for remote access to the host server when the OS is not operational.
• − Serial record and play back saves the text-based output data for later access and play back.
• − Remote System logs record everything being done for later troubleshooting or records.

Environmental management

HPE OneView Advanced integrates resources to provide you with a power monitoring and energy management solution that is designed to scale to the level of your data center. Centralized monitoring of data center power consumption and thermal output is complemented with energy instrumentation connected into HPE iLO capabilities, allowing compatibility with any operating system residing on the managed server.

HPE OneView Advanced integrates three critical areas for environmental management of the data center: thermal data visualization, power delivery infrastructure representation, and physical asset location in 3D. These key areas are captured in the following environmental management features:

• − 3D data center thermal mapping allows you to view the thermal status of your entire data center at a glance. Thermal data is collected from the managed resources in each data center rack and is presented graphically, allowing easy identification of hot spots in a particular rack.
• − Power Discovery Services enable automatic discovery and visualization of power delivery topology for your data center. The Hewlett Packard Enterprise Intelligent Power Distribution Units (iPDUs) and Platinum level power supplies enable automatic rack power topology mapping in HPE OneView, which can automatically detect wiring errors (like lack of redundancy) and can automatically update electrical inventory when new servers are installed. HPE OneView also supports per-outlet power control for remote power cycling of each iPDU outlet. (Devices not supporting Power Discovery Services can manually define their power requirements and power topology.)
• − Location Discovery Services enable HPE OneView Advanced to automatically know and display the exact 3D location of Gen, Gen9 and Gen10 servers within HPE Intelligent Series Racks. This reduces labor time, lowers operational costs, and eliminates human errors associated with inventory and asset management. (Racks and devices that do not support Location Discovery Services can have their position manually input in the rack/device of the data center.)
• − Utilization dashboards display key CPU/power/thermal information for the selected server, enclosure, or iPDU. Historical utilization graphs with up to three years of data (depending on storage limitations) help identify poor-performing servers and improve power utilization.
• − Visualization of CPU, power, and thermal data for servers may be viewed and managed.

The environmental management in HPE OneView Advanced can help you save on your operating expenses (OpEx), and it can even extend data center capacity to avoid additional capital expenses (CapEx). It provides performance when you need it, and cost savings when you don't.

Open Integration

Open integration gives you access to the full power of the management architecture, assuming appropriate permissions, via the Representational State Transfer (REST) API and State-Change Message Bus. You can integrate, automate, and customize this management engine to access information or to control activities using the REST API. With HPE OneView integrations you might:

• − Create an intelligent automation hub to orchestrate operations.
• − Automate standard workflows, troubleshooting steps, and integrations (such as for configuration management databases, also known as CMDB).
• − Connect to Service Desks.
• − Monitor resources, collect data, map/model systems, and export data to custom formats.
• − Attach custom databases, data warehouses, or 3rd party business intelligence tools.
• − Integrate in-house user customizations.

HPE OneView couples a unique State-change Message Bus with REST APIs to provide automation and a closed-loop method of ensuring compliance. Intelligent change monitoring via the message bus allows automation to be closed-looped. This interface notifies custom scripts and integrations of all changes to managed resources (both logical and physical resources) via asynchronous messaging without having to continuously poll for status. The message bus returns commands in 500 milliseconds to give you fast response for your custom integration of applications, processes, and devices.

Python and PowerShell scripts, as well as SDK’s for Ansible, Terraform, Chef, and Puppet are freely available to assist your custom integrations using the REST API. For more information, see https://developer.hpe.com/platform/hpe-oneview/home/

HPE also offers an HPE OneView Redfish Toolkit to help customers to take automations that use the Redfish specification and apply them to HPE OneView managed infrastructure without needing to do extensive re-scripting. Through this set of tools customers will be able to combine the power of HPE OneView templates to compose compute, storage, and fabric with the flexibility of industry standards. See the HPE OneView technical documentation.

VMware vCenter, vRealize Operations, Log Insight, and Orchestrator (integrations)

HPE OneView for VMware vCenter seamlessly integrates the manageability features of HPE ProLiant, Synergy, BladeSystem, and Virtual Connect with VMware solutions. Gain deep control of your virtualized HPE Converged Infrastructure environment— reducing the time it takes to make important changes, increase capacity, or manage planned and unplanned downtime. When used with the automation power of HPE OneView, best practices for a Converged Infrastructure can be defined once and reused many times to provision an entire cluster with compute and storage fully configured in five easy steps.

Integrations for VMware vRealize Operations, vRealize Log Insight and vRealize Orchestrator are also available that deliver powerful analytics and deeper troubleshooting tools to your VMware administrators.

• − Seamlessly integrate the HPE Converged Management with VMware management solutions.
• − Perform integrated OS, driver, and firmware updates with VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM).
• − Simplify administration with VMware console access to the HPE infrastructure management.
• − Reduce downtime by automating responses to hardware events with support of VMware Proactive HA.
• − Proactively manage changes with detailed relationship dashboards.
• − Maintain stability and reliability with online firmware inventory and deployment.
• − Leverage deep analytics and troubleshooting using integrations with VMware vRealize Operations and Log Insight.
• − Integrations for VMware vRealize Orchestrator (VRO) provide an easy-to-use, drag and drop access to automation of HPE.
• − OneView managed hardware deployment, firmware updates and other lifecycle tasks using vRealize Orchestrator.

This integration enables you to provision, modify, and recover complex infrastructure – both virtual and physical together -- from your preferred management console. To download, visit: https://www.hpe.com/products/ovvcenter

Notes: VMware vCenter Server, vRealize Operations, Orchestrator, and Log Insight must be purchased separately and are not included with HPE OneView.

Microsoft System Center (integrations)

HPE OneView integrates with Microsoft System Center Server to deliver powerful HPE hardware management capabilities directly from System Center consoles for comprehensive system health and alerting, driver and firmware updates, OS deployment, detailed inventory, and HPE fabric visualization.

HPE OneView for Microsoft System Center Server

Provides the following capabilities from the Microsoft System Center consoles:

System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)

• − Prevent problems from occurring by proactively monitoring and managing hardware health and intelligently responding to hardware events on HPE Synergy infrastructure, servers, enclosures, HPE Virtual Connect, and HPE Storage. Includes HPE Storage Management Pack for SCOM, which enables HPE Storage monitoring and management for events/alerts, capacity and health dashboards, and detailed virtual infrastructure.
• − Manage the health of HPE ProLiant and Synergy servers without the need for loading OS-based SNMP agents or WBEM providers.
• − Launch HPE remote management tools (such as iLO, OA, and HPE OneView) directly from the SCOM console.

Extensions for Microsoft System Center are delivered via ‘HPE OneView for Microsoft System Center’ and can be downloaded at https://www.hpe.com/products/ovsc.

Notes: Microsoft System Centers must be purchased separately and is not included with HPE OneView

ISV partners

A growing list of ISV partners are taking advantage of the unified API in HPE OneView to automate solutions for customers. These partners range from large software suites like VMware® vCenter, Microsoft® System Center, to focused solution providers like, Ansible, Arista, Chef, Eaton, MicroFocus, Puppet, Red Hat, OpenShift, Schneider Electric, Terraform and many others. Hewlett Packard Enterprise is continuing to work with ISV partners to further enhance and expand the HPE Composable Infrastructure Partner Program. By integrating with the unified API in HPE OneView, ISVs can provide solutions that reduce the time their customers spend managing their environments.

For more information, please refer to https://www.hpe.com/info/composableprogram

Hardware Support

HPE Server Hardware Platforms

Customers should consult the HPE OneView Support Matrix for specific platform support at HPE OneView technical documentation.

• − HPE OneView Advanced supports management on:

  • − HPE ProLiant rack servers (Gen8 and Gen9, Gen10, Gen10 Plus, and Gen11)
• − HPE OneView Standard supports inventory, health monitoring, alerting, and reporting on:

  • − HPE ProLiant rack servers (Gen8, and Gen9, Gen10, Gen10 Plus, and Gen11)

The environmental capabilities of HPE OneView require target servers with an embedded power meter. Systems that support this power management can be found in the HPE OneView Support Matrix at: HPE OneView technical documentation

Appliance support and requirements, virtualization Platforms for the Management Appliance

The HPE OneView management virtual appliance is a free software download at https://www.hpe.com/downloads/OneView

Notes: See the HPE OneView Support Matrix for the most current requirements at HPE OneView technical documentation

HPE OneView Lifecycle

HPE OneView has begun to deliver features and fixes with a faster release cycle. As we continue to deliver features and fixes quicker, the HPE OneView patch support policy is being revised as follows: Starting with the HPE OneView V5.2 patches will be limited to critical security and high severity issues. General issues will be addressed in the next HPE OneView release.

LTS Release

HPE OneView release 6.6. is an LTS release.

• − An HPE OneView long-term support (LTS) release offers extended support for an HPE hardware platform (server, network, storage device) until their software end-of-support-life (EOSL) date.
• − An LTS release can be patched, as required, to address security and other customer-identified critical issues. The released LTS patch will not contain new features. An attempt to update from an LTS release to a newer release with end-of-life (EOL) hardware platforms or devices is blocked.
• − If you continue to use these EOL hardware platforms or devices, you must remain on the specified HPE OneView LTS release.
• − If you want to update to a future release, then you must remove the EOL platforms.
• − Hewlett Packard Enterprise determines the LTS life cycle support period and this information is available on https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-a00117617en_us
• − HPE OneView 7.0 offers HPE ProLiant servers and HPE Apollo systems Gen8 and later as well as HPE Superdome Flex and HPE Superdome Flex 280 servers seamless migration from HPE OneView 6.6

Other Related Services from HPE Services:

HPE Education Services

HPE OneView eLearning and (face-to-face or virtual) instructor-led training from HPE Education Services includes a broad range of courses that help customers develop skills on their journey to composable solutions. The simplest way to add training to any quote is to use HPE Education Learning Credits where credits can be combined for multiple days, multiple students, and multiple courses including the following:

• − HPE OneView Overview and Configuration for HPE Synergy (course # H0LP6AAE) is a two-hour self-paced course that demonstrates key solution elements to help you get started.
• − Installing HPE OneView (course # H9TS6AAE) is a four-hour eLearning course with hands-on labs exercises. Students will be able to deploy the HPE OneView appliance on any of the three supported hypervisor hosts: VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, KVM.
• − HPE OneView for Compute (course # H61P6S or H62E2AAE) includes theory and practical hands-on access for learning how to perform day-to-day administration and troubleshooting tasks on HPE ProLiant compute and HPE SuperDome Flex servers using HPE OneView. Students can study in either a two-day instructor-led course or with sixteen hours of self-paced online learning.
• − HPE OneView for ProLiant DL/ML servers (course # H9TR9S or H9TR9AAE) gives students the knowledge and skills to deploy and configure HPE ProLiant compute in a HPE OneView environment using theory and practical hands-on learning. Students can study in either a one-day instructor-led course or with eight hours of self-paced online learning.

HPE Digital Learner subscriptions provide access to over 5000 hours of online content and labs on HPE technologies, the hottest industry topics, and soft skills for personal development.

For more information, visit https://education.hpe.com/ww/en/training/portfolio/composable-and-hyperconverged.html

Defective Media Retention

An option available with HPE Complete Care Service and HPE Tech Care Service and applies only to Disk or eligible SSD/Flash Drives replaced by HPE due to malfunction.

Consult your HPE Sales Representative or Authorized Channel Partner of choice for any additional questions and services options.

Parts and Materials

HPE will provide HPE-supported replacement parts and materials necessary to maintain the covered hardware product in operating condition, including parts and materials for available and recommended engineering improvements.

Parts and components that have reached their maximum supported lifetime and/or the maximum usage limitations as set forth in the manufacturer's operating manual, product quick-specs, or the technical product data sheet will not be provided, repaired, or replaced as part of these services.

How to Purchase Services

Services are sold by Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Hewlett Packard Enterprise Authorized Service Partners:

• − Services for customers purchasing from HPE or an enterprise reseller are quoted using HPE order configuration tools.
• − Customers purchasing from a commercial reseller can find services at https://ssc.hpe.com/portal/site/ssc/

AI-Powered and Digitally Enabled Support Experience

Achieve faster time to resolution with access to product-specific resources and expertise through a digital and data-driven customer experience.

Sign into the HPE Support Center experience, featuring streamlined self-serve case creation and management capabilities with inline knowledge recommendations. You will also find personalized task alerts and powerful troubleshooting support through an intelligent virtual agent with seamless transition when needed to a live support agent.

https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/home/signin

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To learn more about HPE Services, please contact your Hewlett Packard Enterprise sales representative or Hewlett Packard Enterprise Authorized Channel Partner. Contact information for a representative in your area can be found at "Contact HPE" https://www.hpe.com/us/en/contact-hpe.html

For more information

https://www.hpe.com/services