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HP OneView Deployment and

Management Guide

HP OneView 1.10

Table of contents

Introduction .................................................................................................................................................................................... 4

HP OneView 1.10 Features ..................................................................................................................................................... 4

HP OneView 1.05 Features ..................................................................................................................................................... 5

HP OneView 1.0 Features ........................................................................................................................................................ 5

Browser Requirements ............................................................................................................................................................ 6

Supported Hardware ................................................................................................................................................................ 6

HP OneView User Interface Overview ................................................................................................................................... 8

HP OneView Virtual Connect Management Architecture Overview ................................................................................ 8

Deploying Your Appliance ............................................................................................................................................................ 9

Microsoft Windows Server 2008/2012 Hyper-V ................................................................................................................ 9

Vmware vSphere 5.x .............................................................................................................................................................. 12

First Time Setup ...................................................................................................................................................................... 17

Firmware Repository .............................................................................................................................................................. 22

Licensing OneView .................................................................................................................................................................. 23

Network Configuration ........................................................................................................................................................... 25

Creating Ethernet Networks ................................................................................................................................................. 26

Creating Fibre Channel Networks ........................................................................................................................................ 27

Creating Network Sets ........................................................................................................................................................... 29

Create Logical Interconnect Group ...................................................................................................................................... 32

Reviewing Logical Interconnect Group Configuration ..................................................................................................... 39

Create Enclosure Group ......................................................................................................................................................... 40

Import Enclosure ..................................................................................................................................................................... 43

Examine Imported Resources .............................................................................................................................................. 49

Examine Relationships........................................................................................................................................................... 53

Using Labels ............................................................................................................................................................................. 55

Add ProLiant DL Gen8 Server ............................................................................................................................................... 57

Adding HP 3PAR StoreServ System .................................................................................................................................... 59

Importing HP 3PAR StoreServ System ............................................................................................................................... 64

Examine Imported HP 3PAR StoreServ System ............................................................................................................... 68

Import Existing Volume(s) ..................................................................................................................................................... 70

Create Storage Volume Templates ..................................................................................................................................... 71

Summary of content (154 pages)

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Technical Whitepaper HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide HP OneView 1.10 Table of contents Introduction .................................................................................................................................................................................... 4 HP OneView 1.10 Features ..................................................................................................................................................... 4 HP OneView 1.05 Features ..............
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide Creating Storage Volumes .................................................................................................................................................... 73 Upgrade Infrastructure Firmware........................................................................................................................................ 76 Managing Virtual Connect Firmware ..............................................................
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide Updating the Firmware Baseline for Existing Servers with Profiles Assigned .........................................................141 Managing Multiple Firmware Images in the Same Enclosure .....................................................................................143 Modifying Virtual ID Pools ........................................................................................................................................
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide Introduction Welcome to the Quick Start, Deployment and Management Guide for HP OneView 1.10. HP OneView provides a simple, consumer-inspired user experience that dramatically accelerates everyday tasks. By changing the focus from ‘how devices are managed’ to ‘how people work,’ HP OneView delivers a software-defined management platform that is extensible and easy to use.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide Localization Japanese and Chinese localizations Enclosure Visualization Fan and Power Supply visualization and support for c7000 enclosures Virtual Connect Networking Support for VLAN tunneling and untagged traffic Easily create networks in bulk Partnet Integrations HP OneView for VMware vCenter with vCOps and Log Insight HP OneView for Microsoft System Center with Hyper-V cluster provisioning HP OneView for RHEV HP OneView 1.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide Map View Understand how things are connected from the data center down to the device Smart Search Quickly find the information you are looking for. Need to locate an HP OneView Managed Address? Type it in the Search Field to find the Server Profile it’s assigned to. Browser Requirements Please note that the following web browsers are a minimum requirement: Table 4.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide Supported HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage • HP 3PAR StoreServ 7200/7400 • HP 3PAR StoreServ 10400/10800 Support Fibre Channel Fabric Managers • Brocade SAN Network Advisor Hardware Firmware and Fibre Channel Fabric Manager Minimum Requirements Table 5 shows the minimum firmware requirements needed to successfully import an enclosure. Firmware will be updated via the appliance to the required versions later in this document. Table 5.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide Total Unassigned Server Profiles 100 HP OneView User Interface Overview The entirely new HP OneView user experience is significantly improved from previous generations of HP Management software (e.g. HP System Insight Control.) The HP OneView user interface is built using modern web programming languages, HTML5 and CSS3. Below is an example of what the User Interface (UI) looks like. Figure 1.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide Deploying Your Appliance This segment will guide you through deploying your HP OneView appliance. It will cover the First Time Setup, examining the Service Pack for ProLiant image pre-loaded in the firmware repository, create your Ethernet and FCoE Networks, associate the networks to Logical Interconnect Groups, and begin importing devices. Microsoft Windows Server 2008/2012 Hyper-V The HP OneView 1.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 10 3. Click Next 4.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 5. Click Finish at the Summary screen. 6. Once the VM has been deployed, edit the Settings. 7. Under the VM settings, update the Network Adapter with the appropriate virtual switch. 8. Click OK to save the settings, and then Start the virtual machine.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide Vmware vSphere 5.x 12 1. Select File > Deploy OVF Template within vSphere 2.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 3. Verify the options selected and click Next. 4.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 14 5. Select the host or cluster that will run the HP OneView appliance and click Next 6.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 7. Select the storage location for the HP OneView appliance and click Next 8. Select the disk format that will be used for HP OneView appliance and click Next. HP recommends that Thick Provision Lazy Zeored be used for the HP OneView appliance.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 9. Select the network that will support the HP OneView appliance and click Next 10.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 11. The progress window will show you the status of the deployment process. 12.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide Table 8. Installation Checklist Task Completed? (Y|N) Have a supported Microsoft Hyper-V or vSphere 54 host for appliance Have Static IP Address, or DHCP Static Reservation Have DNS A and PTR Records created Have NTP Server FQDN or IP Address information Figure 2. Obtain the Virtual Machine IP Address from the VMware VIClient As shown in Figure 2.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide Figure 3. Appliance Startup and Initialization Screen using the vSphere Client Figure 4.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide Figure 5. HP Support Access Opt-In The HP Support Access Opt-In, as shown in Figure 5, is used for the HP GCC remote access when the appliance is in an unhealthy state, and core services cannot start. By opting out, this also disables the ability to reset the appliance Administrator account password if ever lost. Table 9. Appliance Administrator Default Credentials Username Password Administrator admin Figure 6.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide Figure 7. Change Administrator Password After providing the new Administrators password, you will be prompted for Appliance Networking configuration. You will need the following: • Appliance Hostname (e.g. hponeview.example.com) – If you specify an FQDN, verify valid A and PTR records exist. The appliance will perform an nslookup of the FQDN and IP address and report an appliance warning if neither are available.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide After clicking OK, the appliance will configure those parameters. If you selected Static for the IP Address Assignment, you should be redirected to the new IP address. Please accept the certificate security warnings during the redirection, as a new SSL certificate is generated from the FQDN.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 3. If you wish to upload an alternate SPP Bundle, clicking the +Add Firmware Bundle button will display the Add Firmware Bundle screen. Click on the Choose File button, and select the SPP ISO to upload. Once selected, click the Start Upload button. You can also drag-and drop firmware bundles (SPPs) within Windows environments.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 24 1. Select the Top Level Menu, and navigate to Settings in the console 2. Open the Actions menu, and select Add License. 3. Paste in your license key in the dialog box and click Add to apply the license. 4. On the Licenses page, verify that your license count has increased.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide Network Configuration First Time Setup Configure Networking Discover Hardware Upgrade Firmware Server Profiles Environment Management Appliance Security • Create Ethernet Networks • Create Fibre Channel Networks • (Optional) HP 3PAR StorServ Direct Attach • Network Sets • Logical Interconnect Groups • Enclosure Groups In this section, you will create Networks, Network Sets, Logical Interconnect Groups and Enclosure Groups.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide Creating Ethernet Networks First Time Setup Configure Networking Discover Hardware Upgrade Firmware Server Profiles Environment Management Appliance Security • Create Ethernet Networks • Create Fibre Channel Networks • (Optional) HP 3PAR StorServ Direct Attach • Network Sets • Logical Interconnect Groups • Enclosure Groups 1. Select the Top Level Menu, and select Networks. 2.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 4. Click the Create button to create the new Ethernet Network and close the Create Network dialog box. You can also select the Create+ button to continue creating more Networks – e.g. Create the B-Side Ethernet Network. Creating Fibre Channel Networks HP OneView supports single-hop FCoE Fabrics with either traditional Fibre Channel Fabric Attach, or Virtual Connect Flat SAN with HP 3PAR StoreServ Direct Attach. New in the HP OneView 1.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 2. In the new window, provide the Name, select Fibre Channel as the Network Type, select Fabric Attach as the Fabric Type, and modify Bandwidth allocation, Uplink Speed, Login Redistribution as needed. Note The Fabric Attach Fabric Type is used for traditional Fibre Channel Fabric connectivity, which requires NPIV-capable upstream FC switches.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 2. In the new window, provide the Name, select Fibre Channel as the Network Type, select Direct Attach as the Fabric Type, and modify Bandwidth allocation. Note By selecting the Direct Attach Fabric Type, you can assign any of the available X1-X4 ports on a Virtual Connect FlexFabric module to an HP 3PAR StoreServ array. 3. Click the Create button to create the new Direct Attach Network and close the Create Network dialog box.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 30 2. Once on the Network Sets screen, click the +Create Network Set button on the far left. 3. On the Create Network Sets screen, provide a name, then click the Add Networks button to select the networks to add. 4. You can search for a Network or multiple Networks, or either click SHIFT/CTRL+Left Mouse Click to select which will either select all in section, or multi-select the networks to add.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide Ethernet Networks, and create the “A-Side” Network Set. 5. After clicking Add, you can select the specific network that will be the Native VLAN, or the default untagged network for the Servers Network Connection. This is typically used for PXE traffic.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 6. If you are creating an Active/Active network design, repeat the prior steps to create the “B-Side” Network Set. Create Logical Interconnect Group First Time Setup Configure Networking Discover Hardware Upgrade Firmware Server Profiles • Create Ethernet Networks • Create Fibre Channel Networks • (Optional) HP 3PAR StorServ Direct Attach • Network Sets • Logical Interconnect Groups • Enclosure Groups 32 1.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 3. 4. Provide a name to best describe the template. Use terms like Production or Dev to help describe the Logical Interconnect Group. Click the Add interconnect button to add modules to Bays 1 and 2. Select the correct Virtual Connect Modules, either VC Flex-10, VC Flex-10/10D or VC FlexFabric. When clicking the Add Module button next to the peer bay, the UI will automatically select the correct module. Creating Uplink Sets 1.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 34 4. Click the Add networks button to select the networks to add. By not selecting a Network or multiple Networks, they will be Internal Ethernet Networks within the Logical Interconnect that is applied to each enclosure from the Logical Interconnect Group. 5. A search field is provided to quickly locate a specific Network or multiple Networks.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 6. Make sure to mark the appropriate network as Native if the VLAN on the upstream switch is also the Native or Default VLAN. 7. Click the Add ports button to add uplink ports. 8. Select at least one port from each Ethernet Module. To quickly add multiple Uplink Ports, first search for a common port (e.g. X5), select them, click the Add+ button, then change the search to another port (e.g.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide button. 9. After you have added the Uplink Ports to your Uplink Set, click the Create button. Select the Create+ button if you wish to define an additional Uplink Set – e.g. the B-Side Uplink Set. Otherwise, select the Create button. 10. Continue to the next section to create Fibre Channel Uplink Sets.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide Loop Protection, Fast MAC Cache Failover, SNMP settings, etc. Creating Fibre Channel Uplink Sets (Optional) 1. Click the Add uplink set button to add SAN Fabrics. 2. Provide a Name and select Fibre Channel from the dropdown menu for theType.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 38 3. Under the Networks heading, select the SAN Fabric Name from the dropdown list. 4. Under the Networks heading, select the Interconnect from the dropdown list, and then select which ports are to be linked.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide Note The Interconnect field will display the Interconnect Module by its Bay ID. 5. 6. 7. 8. Click the Create+ button. Repeat to create the redundant SAN Fabric. Notice that the other Fabric is filtered from view. Click the Create button. If you wish to create another Uplink set, repeat the above steps, or click the Create button. Reviewing Logical Interconnect Group Configuration 1.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 2. Scroll down to bring the Logical Interconnect Group section into view, and mouse over of the Uplink sets. Examine the relationship of the Uplink set to the physical modules and their uplink ports. 3. From the Sub-Menu, select Uplink Sets. Examine the Uplink Sets and their relationship to the assigned Networks.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 2. Click on the Create Enclosure Group button 3. In the Create Enclosure Group screen, provide a Name, and select the appropriate Logical Interconnect Group you created earlier. Notice that if only a single Logical Interconnect Group exists, it will be selected by default.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide Note The Enclosure Script will not allow all OA CLI commands to be used. The following table outlines the blacklisted commands: Table 11.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide Table 11. Enclosure Groups Configuration Script Blacklist ENABLE FIRMWARE MANAGEMENT SET ENCLOSURE ASSET TAG UNASSIGN OA vcmuser ENABLE FIRMWARE MANAGEMENT SET ENCLOSURE ASSET TAG UNASSIGN OA vcmuser ENABLE FIRMWARE MANAGEMENT SET ENCLOSURE ASSET TAG UNASSIGN OA vcmuser Please refer to the Configure an enclosure with an OA configuration script section of the Online Help, or User Guide for an updated list. 4.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 44 2. Click the Add Enclosure button. 3. Import your first enclosure, select the Enclosure Group, define the license policy, and specify the Firmware Baseline to apply. Selecting the Add or Add+ button, the enclosure will be discovered, and the OA firmware will be updated to the version within the SPP.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 4. HP OneView provides audit tracking within the appliace. By clicking the gear in the lower left corner, HP OneView shows you to what you have changed in the dialog screens. 5. Click Add to begin to import the enclosure into HP OneView.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 6. Once the enclosure information has been verified, the appliance will begin its discovery process. During this time, the appliance will validate if the OA firmware meets the minimum requirement. Clicking on the Details link will take you to the Activity view of the enclosure, were you can examine the task and subtask details.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide If the firmware was out of date, the Activity window would display the sub-tasks generated. Below is a sample screenshot. 7. After the Add Enclosure task has completed, the Enclosure State should read Configured. 8. After adding the first enclosure, there might be a Warning status message, indicating the appliance encountered problems with the servers during discovery.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide The status box will give you a brief description of the recent steps that have occurred. The user can also see a brief warning message. Clicking on the Details link in the description will take you to the Activity page of the enclosure.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide In this example, HP OneView is reporting no licenses are available. Instead, the 60-day “trial” license will be applied. 9. Repeat the above steps to add more enclosures. Examine Imported Resources After you have successfully imported the enclosure, you will want to verify all the resources in the enclosure have been imported. Physical and Logical Interconnects 1.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 50 2. Interconnects are the physical Virtual Connect Modules. If the Virtual Connect modules meet the minimum required version, they should be in a Configured State. If the firmware version didn’t meet the minimum management requirements, the state of the module would be Unmanaged. 3. Select the Top Level Menu, and choose Logical Interconnects 4.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide Server Hardware 1. Select Server Hardware from the top level menu. 2. The Server Hardware section lists the discovered servers listed in the left panel. Selecting a specific server will open the detailed information about the selected server. Some examples of the information presented are installed options, serial numbers, and utilization information.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide complete configuration, the administrator is able to do advanced configurations on compoents like network adapters. A network adapter can be configured for specific physical port to network connection mappings during the Server Profiles creation process. The Server Hardware Type is automatically created when an Enclosure or a Rack Mount server is added. 52 1. Select Server Hardware Types from the top level menu. 2.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 4. Selecting a hardware type will allow you to see the number of servers that have this hardware type as well as the configuration of the network adapters. Examine Relationships HP OneView has extensive mapping and relationship capabilities. These capabilities allow an administrator to select a component such as a server profile, logical interconnect, or physical server and see what other devices or profiles are linked to the component.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 54 3. Within the Map view, hover over objects to see how the relationships are built. In the following example, observe the relationships shown when the Enc1 Enclosure is selected. Clicking on an object will navigate you to that objects Map View. The resource with the light-blue color is the context of the current resource. 4.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 5. Select on one of the server objects, and Left-Click. The Map View will change to display the Map View with the server being the center object. Hover over the Server Hardware and notice th relationship shown. 6. Lastly, examine the Network relationships. Because Server Profile haven’t been assigned yet, the Network relationship to the server is not yet available.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 56 2. Select the resource in the tree, then select Labels from the view selector menu. 3. Select Edit 4. Specify the Label you wish to add. You can add one or more labels. Click the OK button to save your changes.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide If you wish to delete a Label, click the X next to the label.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 58 3. In the Add Server Hardware screen, add the iLO FQDN or IP Address of the DL server to be added , along with iLO Administrator credentials. Click the Add button to add the DL server, or select the Add+ button to add other DL Gen8 servers. 4. After clicking the Add button, HP OneView will being to discover the server, and configure the iLO for management.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 5. Once the server is added, the administrator has the capability of powering the server on, applying a server profile, or launch the Remote Console from the Actions menu. 6. The server is now configured for element management by HP OneView.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide HP OneView now supports the automated volume provisioning and Brocade fabric zoning of 3PAR storage systems. In this section you will import 1 or more 3PAR storage systems that are already initialized, have existing CPG’s, and any Virtual Domains6 configured. To provide additional automated HP 3PAR StoreServ automation, Brocade SAN Network Advisor (BNA) must be installed and available to be configured as a SAN Manager.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 3. In the Add SAN Manager screen, provide the FQDN/IP Address, TCP Port (if different from the default SMI-S/WEBM over SSL 5989/TCP), and credentials to authenticate. Then click the Add button, orAdd+ button to add another BNA host. 4. After addingthe BNA host, you will notice the managed SAN Fabric names. Automated Zoning is not enabled yet, as the Managed SAN Fabric will need to be associated with an HP OneView FC Network.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 62 2. Select the FC Network to be updated, then select Edit from the Actions Menu. 3. In the Associate with SAN drop down list, select the appropriate Fabric name, then select OK to save.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 4. After updating the FC Network, examine the Associate with SAN and SAN Manager properties in the General view. 5. 6. Repeat the same steps to update any additional FC Networks. Navigate back to SAN Managers from the Top Level Menu. 7. The Managed SAN Fabrics will now reflect the FC Network name, and Automate Zoning will be enabled. 8. Automate Zoning can be disabled on a per fabric basis.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide Then tick the option to Disable Automated Zoning. Importing HP 3PAR StoreServ System First Time Setup Configure Networking Discover Hardware • Import C7000 Enclosure • Import ProLiant DL Gen8 • Import 3PAR StoreServ array • (Optional) Add Brocade SAN Network Advisor 1. 64 Select Storage Systems from the top level menu.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 2. In the Storage Systems screen, click the +Add storage system button. 3. In the Add Storage System screen, add the FQDN or IP Address of the 3PAR storage system to be added , along with Administrator credentials. Click the Connect button to connect to the 3PAR storage system.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 4. Once connected to the storage system, select the storage Virtual Domain8 from the dropdown box if needed 5. Once the storage domain is selected the Add storage pools button will be available. Click Add storage pools. 8 66 HP 3PAR Virtual Domains is a licensed feature, and is not part of the HP OneView license.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 6. On the Add storage pool screen, select the storage pool to be added (multi-select is available on this screen.) Click the Add button to add the storage pool, or select the Add+ button to add other storage pools. Manually Assigning FC Networks to 3PAR Storage System Host Ports 7. On the Storage System Ports section of the Add storage system screen, select the FC Network to be used by the ports of the storage array from the dropdown box.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide Group names on this screen. 8. From the Add Storage System page, click the Add button to add the storage system, or select the Add+ button to add other storage systems. Examine Imported HP 3PAR StoreServ System After adding an HP 3PAR StoreServ system, you can examine the details about the new resource.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 1. From the Storage Systems view, select the specific storage system in the resource list view. 2. Select Storage System Ports from the sub-menu. 3. Here, you can view the matched storage system host ports, and the associated FC Networks and/or SAN Manager fabrics.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide Import Existing Volume(s) HP OneView can import existing, unexported volumes for assignment to Server Profiles. The internal HP 3PAR StoreServ Volume ID will be required. Adding existing volumes can either be performed in the Storage Systems or Volumes view. NOTE There is a design limitation in the UI that unless an existing Volume has been created, the Actions menu is not available after navigating to the Volumes section.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide Adding volumes can also be performed from the Volumes section of the UI. The Actions menu will only be available when a volume exists in HP OneView, either by importing or creating it. 3. Select the Storage System form the dropdown list, then provide the details of the Virtual Volume to import. The Volume ID is the HP 3PAR StoreServ Volume ID found in the 3PAR Management Console. Select the Add or Add+ button to add the volume.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 72 2. Click Create volume template button 3. In the Create Volume Template screen, provide the details specific to the template. Specify the Storage Pool (CPG), and volume parameters (size, provisioned type and sharing). Then click the Create or Create+ button. 4.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide Creating Storage Volumes Volume creation is performed in the Volumes section, under the Storage column of the Top Level Menu within the UI. Volumes can be pre-created, or created after a Server Profile has been assigned to a server. In this release, Ephemeral Volume9 creation is not supported, and must exist prior to requesting the Volume(s) in the Server Profile. Volumes can be created with either the Server or Storage role. 1.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide Provide the volume details, Storage Volume Template, capacity, provisioning type (if available), and sharing method. Warning Volume Name will not allow certain characters.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 2. Locate the Volume you wish to expand, Right-Click and select Edit. 3. In the Configure Virtual Volume screen, modify the Size value to a larger value. Click Finish to save your changes. 4. Navigate back to the HP OneView console, and the Volumes section of the UI. Select the Volume you just increased the size of, select Refresh from the Actions menu.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 5. After the Volume has been refreshed, the UI will update with the new size, and the storage system will reflect the consumed and allocated values.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 2. Examine what is installed versus what is available in the Firmware Baseline. Managing Virtual Connect Firmware HP OneView provides the ability to manage Virtual Connect firmware from multiple locations; at the Logical Interconnect or Enclosure level. Managing Virtual Connect firmware at the Logical Interconnect would be used for those times where only VC firmware requiring updating. 1.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide manual activation by the admin. If firmware has been previously staged, the final option would become active. Note HP OneView does not offer the ability to modify Activation order, and each module is Activated independently and at the same time, which will cause a network outage. To control potential outages, consider staging and manual activation of Virtual Connect firmware. 4. Clicking OK will begin the firmware update process.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide the Activity bar. 5. Once the firmware update has completed, examine the Firmware section, and see that it should show the Firmware Baseline assigned, the Installed and Baseline versions.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide Hardware Type (SHT) matches the original configured SHT. If the Server Profile Affinity is set to Device Bay + Server Hardware, then the Server Profile will not be applied in the even of the physical server being reinserted into the same Device Bay. If the Server Hardware and its physical Serial Number do not match, the Server Profile will be flagged as Incompatible.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide the assignable Server Hardware section. Note HP OneView does not currently support Server Profile inheritance. E.g. 1:Many Profile Assignment. 4. Add the needed Network Connections by clicking the Add Connection button, specify an Ethernet Device Type and either assign an Ethernet Network, or Ethernet Network Set to the Connection. Click the Add+ button to continue adding Network Connections to the Server Profile.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide default Auto. You can force the FlexNIC assignment, but the list will be filtered based on the connection location to the Interconnect Bay the FC Network is assigned to. A. 6. 82 (Optional) If you wish to configure FC Boot From SAN (BFS), change the Boot setting from Not Bootable to either Primary or Secondary. You will need to provide the Target WWN and Host LUN ID in the respective fields. g HP OneView 1.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide If you enable the Manage Local Storage feature, a warning dialog will be displayed mentioning what the Initialize local storage option does. 7. Enable SAN Storage if necessary. A. Specify the Host OS Type, which controls the Host created on the 3PAR storage system. B. Clickthe Add Volume button to display the list of volumes available for assignment. Select the source Volume to assign to the Server Profile.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide C. 8. Once the Volume has been selected, the available Storage Paths will be displayed. You can disable, remove or add Storage Paths. Click Add or Add+ to add the volume. Modify the Boot Order if necessary. Warning Disabling Boot Order in the Server Profile will also disable PXE and FC BfS configuration options. 9. Modify the following, or customize your own BIOS Settings A.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide Profile, Intel QPI Link Power Management, Minimum Processor Idle Power Core State, and other related BIOS settings change. Note If the server hardware only contains a single CPU, you will need to change the HP Power Profile setting to Custom, and then change Intel QPI Link Power Management to its default value, otherwise the Server Profile will fail to apply. This BIOS setting is only available on systems that contain multiple CPUs. 10.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 13. In the Copy Profile screen, provide a Name, specify the Server Hardware that you will assign this Server Profile to, then click the Create button. Note The Server Hardware list will be filtered based on the Server Hardware Type and Enclosure Group that the Server Profile Template was configured for. You cannot change them in the Copy Profile screen. 14.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 15. During the creation of the Server Profile, it will be assigned to the selected Server Hardware bay, and the firmware update process will begin. 16. You can now launch the iLO Remote Console directly from the Server Profile screen from the Action menu. Or select Server Hardware from the top level menu, or the Server Hardware link in the Server Profile to be taken directly to the Server Hardware view.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide policy if specified. You will be prompted to either install the Remote Console software, or launch it. Tip If the Install Remote Console prompt above was cancelled or you need it to show again, select the Actions menu, then hold the Shift key down and select Launch Console to display the prompt again. 17. Once the Remote Console has launched, you can watch the server POST.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide Create Assigned Profile: One-Off Server Profile 1. 2. 3. 4. Select the main menu option in the upper left, and choose Server Profiles. Once on the Server Profiles screen, select the Create Profile button. Provide a name for the Server Profile. In the Server Hardware field, you will select the Enclosure Name and Bay ID that the profile will be assigned to, and the Firmware Baseline (SPP).
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 90 4. Scroll down to BIOS or select BIOS from the View Selector Menu. Edit the appropriate BIOS Settings you wish to apply. 5. 6. Click Create or the Create+ button. The Server Profile will be created, and HP OneView will begin its process to apply the Profile. 7. Connect to the Remote Console if you wish to watch the server perform the automated process.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide Add New Blade to Enclosure (Optional) In this section, you will need to insert a new blade into the enclosure. This will help you verify that a new blade is automatically discovered in the enclosure by HP OneView. When a new blade is inserted into the enclosure, the Onboard Administrator will register a Blade Insertion event, which will be forward to the HP OneView console.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide Adding DLs to rack without LDS If LDS is not present, racks are not automatically created for DL servers. DL servers may be added to racks previously created via enclosure discovery or racks may be created manually and have servers added to them. For either option, begin by navigating to the Racks screen. 1. To go to the Racks screen, select Racks in the main menu. 2.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 3. Once on the Add Rack screen, the screen details is segmented into the General and Layout sections. On the General pane, enter the requested information for the rack hardware. 4. The Layout panel consists of a visual representation of the rack and its slots, a list of available devices and a search box to find the desire systems and enclosures.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 2. HP OneView automatically creates a default data center (Datacenter 1) during setup which serves as a holding place for racks once created. All racks are listed under Datacenter 1 in the order they were created. A message is shown until the default data center indicating it has not been configured. 3.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide listed in the Unpositioned Racks field. This listing includes racks held in the unconfigured default Datacenter 1. 5. To edit an existing data center, select Edit in the Layout section of data center page.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 96 6. The Layout panel of the Edit screen allows you to drag & drop racks on the grid from an overhead view. 7. For physically accurate positioning not aligned with the grid lines, enter the position and angle in the rack positioning popup. 8. To remove any racks that are not part of the data center, drag them back to the unpositioned list or select them and click the Remove link in the popup.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 9. Once editing of the data center is complete, select the OK button to return to the data center screen to view the 3D model of the data center. Configuring power delivery topology for the data center Configuring the physical setup for your data center is only half the picture. To get a complete understanding of your environment, you can also configure its power delivery hierarchy.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 98 3. Enter the FQDN or IP address along with the login credentials needed for discovery. 4. Once the iPDUs have been discovered, view the rack in which the iPDU-powered equipment resides. The iPDUs will be automatically depicted in the rack layout. 5. 6. 7. Edit the rack associated with the iPDU to set the iPDU core position properly. Drag the iPDU to the upper or lower 0U space drop zones on the A/B side of the rack as appropriate.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide Adding 3rd Party PDU’s or non-HP iPDU’s 1. If an iPDU is not being used, create one or more Rack PDUs to represent power capacity in the rack. On the Power Delivery Device screen, select + Add power delivery device. 2. On the Add Power Delivery Device screen, select Rack PDU and specify the properties that will represent your PDU and the power capacity it provides. 3.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 2. Once on the Unmanaged Devices screen, select the +Add unmanaged device button. 3. Enter the specified information to represent the unmanaged device. Specify the maximum power value for the device to enable capacity and consumption analysis of your power delivery system. Once all information is completed, click the Add or Add+ button. 4. The device can then be added to any rack layout and associated with any power delivery device.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide HP OneView supports Role-based Access to the appliance with either local User Accounts, or it can be integrated with Microsoft Active Directory or other LDAP directories, like OpenLDAP. This section will cover how to create local user accounts, and optionally configure Active Directory authentication within the appliance.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 3. Within the Edit Security window, click the Add directory button. 4. In the Add Directory window, you will need to specify the following: • Directory Name • Directory Type • Search Context – Field 1: CN for Active Directory, UID for LDAP Directories – Field 2: Organizational Unit in Distinguished Name format (i.e. OU=Admins,OU=Contoso) – Field 3: Top Level Domain Name in Distinguished Name format (i.e.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 5. After the Directory has been configured, go back and Edit Security to set the Default Directory, and click OK to save the settings.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 104 6. Next, navigate to Users and Groups from the main menu. 7. In the Users and Groups view, select the Actions menu and choose Add Directory User or Group 8. In the Add Directory User or Group screen, provide the credentials to authenticate. Once authenticated, begin typing the directory group name in the Group Name field. Select the group, and specify its role. 9. Repeat the same steps to add the remaining Directory Groups.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 10. After you have configured your Directory Groups, you should log out by clicking the User button in the upper right of the UI and select Logout. 11. On the logon page, you will notice a new field to choose. This is the Directory chooser. You can select from the configured Directories and Local (if Local was not disabled in your Directory configuration.) 12.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 13. Navigate to Networks from the Top Level Menu, and notice the +Create Network button and Actions menu Networks from the Top Level Menu, and notice the +Create Network button and Actions menu are unavailable. 14. Log into appliance with a Network Admin user account 15. Navigate to Server Profiles from the Top Level Menu, and notice the +Create Server Profile button and Actions menu is no longer available.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide Maintaining Your Appliance This segment will guide you through the maintenance tasks you may encounter when using the HP OneView appliance. It will cover the maintaining user groups and accounts, alerts and monitoring as well as other tasks you may experience when using HP OneView to manage your Converged Infrastrcuture.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide Creating New Users HP OneView supports the methodology of differing roles within a Converged Infrastructure. In this section we will create a new user for the HP OneView environment. 1. Select the Top Level Menu, and navigate to Users and Groups in the console 2. From the left hand menu, select the +Add User button. 3. Provide a login name, Full name (optional), then enter and confirm the password that will be used for the account.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 1. Select the Top Level Menu, and navigate to Users and Groups in the console 2. Select the user that needs to be deleted from the left hand menu 3. Now that the correct account has been selected, select Remove from the Actions menu 4. Confirm your selection by selecting the Yes, remove button to delete the account. Changing User Permissions HP OneView supports the methodology of differing roles within a Converged Infrastructure.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 3. Now that the correct account has been selected, select Edit from the Actions menu. 4. Edit the information that needs to be changed. 5. Click the OK button to save the changes that have been made. Alerts and Monitoring Prior to physical and power delivery configuration, HP OneView provides a Utilization panel where a summary of the current usage of each metric available for a resource can be monitored.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 3. The Utilization panel located within the details pane shows the metrics available for monitoring for the resource. The utilization metrics available to be monitored depends on the resource type: • Server hardware: CPU, power (including power cap) and temperature • Enclosures: power (including power cap settings) and temperature • Power Delivery Devices: power 4.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 5. 6. OR Once selected, the details pane will show the first available metric for the device expanded. By default the last 24 hours of information is shown on the graph. However, the date bar below the graph allows selecting any available date range to be displayed 7. . Custom graphs can also be created. This custom graph allows two metrics to be plotted on the same graph allowing comparison between the metrics. 8.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide of the data center shows the peak observed temperature of each rack the last 24 hours. Viewing Activity, Alerts and Tasks Various health alerts are recorded regarding the lifecycle management of your data center and IT equipment.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 2. This page is the master list of all activity within the appliance. Pin out Filters Expand/Collapse Item Alert Item Assign Owner Clear State Add a Note to Activity Details 3. You can also expand the hardware resource (Server Hardware, Server Profile, Enclosure, Logical Interconnect, etc.) and look at the alert view to see the problem description.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 3. From the Actions menu, select Power On 4. Looking in the activity page, you can see that servers have now been powered on. Add New Networks and Edit Server Profile In this section you will add Networks to HP OneView and modify an existing Logical Interconnect Group. You will then add the new Network or Networks to an existing Network Set or add a new Network Connection to an existing Server Profile. Add Network(s) 1.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide By looking at the Logical Interconnecet, you will notice the network(s) you added is a Local network. 2. 116 Navigate to Logical Interconnect Groups, and add the new Network(s) to an existing Uplink Set.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 3. Now that the Logical Interconnect Group has been updated, the Logical Interconnects that were created from importing the Enclosure will report they are no longer consistent with the group. Navigate to the Logical Interconnect that requires updating. Select the Actions menu, and then Update from group. Repeat for any other Logical Interconnects that require updating. 4.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 3. 4. 5. Make the necessary changes to the server profile (i.e. Bandwidth adjustment, add a Network Connection, etc.) Click the OK button to save the changes to the Server Profile. Notice the server does not have its firmware reapplied, and only those changes are applied. Changing the IP address of a managed resource (enclosure) Occasionally situation arises where the IP address of a managed resource will need to be changed.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 2. Once on the Enclosure screen, select the +Add enclosure button. 3. Provide the IP address or FQDN of the Enclosure, with an Administrator account, select an Enclosure Group, and specify the Firmware Baseline to apply. Selecting the Add or Add+ button, the enclosure will be discovered, and the OA firmware will be updated to the version within the SPP. 4.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 5. After the Add Enclosure task has completed, the Enclosure State should read Configured. Adding a Ethernet Network 1. 120 Select the Top Level Menu, and select Networks.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 2. Once on the Networks screen, click the +Create Network button on the far left. 3. In the new window, provide the Name, select Ethernet as the Type, provide the VLAN ID, and bandwidth settings. Smart Link will automatically be selected by default. Select Private Network if needed. 4. Click the Create button to create the new Ethernet Network and close the Create Network dialog box.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide Logical Interconnect. Adding a Fibre Channel Network 122 1. Select the Top Level Menu, and select Networks. 2. Once on the Networks screen, click the +Create Network button on the far left. 3. In the new window, provide the Name, select Fibre Channel as the Network Type, select the correct Fabric Type, and modify Bandwidth allocation, Uplink Speed, Login Redistribution as needed.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 4. Click the Create button to create the new Fibre Channel Network and close the Create Network dialog box. Adding an Ethernet Uplink to a Logical Interconnect 1. Select the Top Level Menu, and select Logical Interconnect. 2. Once on the Logical Interconnects screen, select the Edit option from the Actions menu. 3. In the new window, click the button Add Uplink Set.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 124 4. Enter a name for the Uplink Set, Select Ethernet as the Network Type, 5. Select the Add Networks button 6. Select the network that will added to the new Uplink Set, then click the Add button. 7. Select the Add uplink ports button.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 8. Select the ports that will be used for the new uplink. Click the Add button. 9.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 10. Click the OK button to enable the new Ethernet Uplink Adding a Fibre Channel Uplink 126 1. Select the Top Level Menu, and select Logical Interconnect Groups. 2. Once on the Logical Interconnects screen, select the Edit option from the Actions menu. 3. In the new window, click the button Add Uplink Set.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 4. Enter a name for the Uplink Set, Select Fibre Channel as the Network Type 5.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 128 6. Under the Uplink Ports section, select the interconnect module that will be used for the new network using the drop down menu. 7.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 8. Select the Create button. 9. Click the OK button to create the new Fibre Channel Uplink Set by saving the Logical Interconnect.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide Create Additional Storage Volume Templates 130 1. Navigate to Volume Templates from the Top Level Menu. 2. Click Create volume template button 3. In the Create Volume Template screen, provide the details specific to the template. Specify the Storage Pool (CPG), and volume paramters (size, provisioned type and sharing). Then click the Create or Create+ button. 4.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 5. Tick the option to configure the policy. Create Additional Storage Volumes 1. Navigate to Volumes from the Top Level Menu. 2. Click the Create volume button. 3. In the Create Volume screen, the options can be restricted if the Storage Administrator has forced Volume Creation to be provisioned from a Storage Volume Template. The following screenshot shows this restricted behavior.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide Otherwise, the administrator creating the Volume and choose whether the it will be associated with an available Storage Volume Template. 4. Provide the volume details, Storage Volume Template, capacity, provisioning type (if available.), and sharing method. Click Create or Create+ button to create the volume.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide Removing Network(s) 1. Using the Top Menu, select Server Profiles 2. Select the server profile you want to edit from the menu on the left 3. Select the Actions menu, then select Edit. 4. Remove the desired network from the server profile by selecting the X next to the network settings 5. Click the OK button to save the changes to the Server Profile.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide Deleting a volume from HP OneView In this Use Case you will remove a volume from the HP OneView. 134 1. Using the Top Menu, select Volumes 2. Select the volume to be deleted from the menu on the left 3. Select the Actions menu, then select Delete. 4.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 5. Click the Yes, Delete button remove the volume. Adding a New Blade to an Enclosure and Discovering New Server Hardware Types As it was discussed in the first chapter, Deploying Your Appliance, Server Hardware Types are automatically discovered and defined by HP OneView when a new server is added to the environment. This section outlines how to add a new server and the expected behavior.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 136 4. Using the dropdown menu, change to the Activity view of the enclosure to see the Blade Inserted event. 5.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 6. After the blade is inserted and discovered, from the Top Level menu select Server Hardware Types. If the new server is a new model, or has different connectivity layout (i.e. different FlexLOM or mezzanine options installed) than other managed servers, the new hardware type would now be listed. Adding New Racks Based on Location Discovery Services Racks are automatically created based on LDS.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 3. The information in the General section of the details pane allows you to see the rack automatically created to house the enclosure. Adding Rack Servers (DL’s) to Racks without Location Discovery Services If LDS is not present, racks are not automatically created for DL servers. DL servers may be added to racks previously created via enclosure discovery or racks may be created manually and have servers added to them.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 2. 3. On the Racks screen, to create a rack either select Add Rack button in the left panel or Add from the Actions pull-down on the right of the screen. OR Once on the Add Rack screen, the screen details is segmented into the General and Layout sections. On the General pane, enter the requested information for the rack hardware. 4.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 2. Select Add Firmware Bundle button. 3. In the Add Firmware Bundle screen, click on the Choose File button, and select the SPP ISO to upload. Once selected, click the Stat Upload button. Firmware bundles (SPPs) can also be drag-and dropped from Windows environments. You can navigate away from the Firmware Bundle screen to other areas within the UI, as the upload process is a background process within the browser.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide Updating the Firmware Baseline for Existing Servers with Profiles Assigned Note This method is for single unit, offline firmware updates only. To perform online firmware updates, please use HP Smart Update Manager. http://www.hp.com/go/SUM. 1. 2. Ensure that the firmware bundle is uploaded to the HP OneView appliance Select the main menu option in the upper left, and choose Server Profiles. 3.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 142 5. Click OK to apply the changes. 6.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide Managing Multiple Firmware Images in the Same Enclosure Because HP supports its SPP bundles for 12 months. It may be necessary to have different servers within the same enclosure on different SPP bundles. This enables a customer to update the infrastructure ahead of time and update the servers during their normal maintenance window. 1. Select the Top Level Menu, and navigate to Firmware Bundles in the console 2.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 144 5. Select the correct enclosure from the navigation pane, then select Update Firmware from the actions menu. 6. On the Update firmware screen select the correct Firmware Baseline and select Enclosure to update only the enclosure firmware. 7. Click OK to begin the firmware update.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 8. Verify that the enclosure firmware update is complete 9. Select the Top Level Menu, and navigate to Logical Interconnect in the console 10. Select the Logical Interconnects for the enclosure from the navigation pane 11. Select Update Firmware from the actions menu. 12. On the Logical Interconnect Update firmware screen select the option to Update Firmware option then select the correct Firmware Baseline.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 13. Verify that the Logical Interconnect firmware update is complete. 14. Next, navigate to Server Profiles from the top level menu. Select the correct Server Profile from the navigation pane. 15. Verify the Server Power is Off, and select Edit from the actions menu.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 16. On the Edit Server Profile screen select the correct firmware baseline from the Firmware Baseline dropdown box to be used for this Server Profile. Click OK to apply the firmware. 17. Verify that the firmware update on the Server Profile is complete 18. Verify firmware A is still on previous firmware Modifying Virtual ID Pools HP OneView has the ability to pool address ranges just like Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager does today.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 2. On the Settings window, you will see a section called Addresses and Identifier. 3. When you click on the heading, you will see which pools have been automatically created, and the current allocation. You can select the Add auto-generate button to create a new range of addresses for the pool, or add a custom range.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide view the list of resources, see HP Converged Infrastructure Controller REST API Reference located in the Online Help of the appliance [https://{ip}/help/cic/en/content/images/api/]. Resource operations Basic Create, Read, Update and Delete (CRUD) operations are performed on the appliance resources via the standard HTTP POST, GET, PUT and DELETE methods.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide The HP OneView PowerShell library is a self-contained module that you first need to import, or add to your PowerShell Session Profile. After the module has been successfully imported, you must first execute Connect-HPOVmgmt in order to authenticate to the appliance. You can then execute other cmdlets to perform the desired action. 1. Execute Import-Module HPOneView A.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 'userName': username, 'password': password, } headers = { 'Accept': 'application/json', 'Content-Type': 'application/json', 'Accept-Language': 'en_US', } url = 'https://' + hostname + uri response = requests.request(method, url, data=json.dumps(data), headers=headers, verify=False) A request is made up for 4 items: • Method - HTTP Method (e.g. POST, PUT, GET, etc.) • URL - URL for the new Request object.
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Technical white paper | HP OneView Deployment and Management Guide 152 1. Select the main menu option in the upper left, and choose Settings. 2. Select the Actions menu option, and select Create Support Dump. It may take a minute or two to collect the Support Dump logs. The Support Dump may also be very large. This Support Dump collects information about the Appliance. 3. 4. Save the .SDMP file. Nagivate to Logical Interconnects from the Top Level Menu. 5.
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Additional Resources http://www.hp.com/go/OneView/docs HP OneView Online Help HP OneView Release Notes HP OneView Support Matrix HP OneView Installation Guide HP OneView User Guide HP OneView REST API Reference HP OneView Firmware Management White Paper Transitioning a Virtual Connect Configuration to HP OneView http://www.hp.com/go/VirtualConnect Virtual Connect Command Line User Guide Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager User Guide Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager Command Line User Guide http://www.hp.