HPE announced HPE OneView almost 5 years ago as the next generation management tool.   It is hard to believe that this product has been on the market for 5 years now.  This management platform was written from the ground up, with the idea that it is an open, software defined approach to managing your infrastructure.  HPE OneView was designed to use software-defined intelligence with a template-driven approach to rapidly provision, update, and deploy servers, storage, and networking, reducing the risk of human errors.

 

HPE OneView is a next generation management software replacing HPE Systems Insight Manager and Insight Control as the management platform for the HPE Proliant family of servers. In fact, Insight Control does not support the latest generation of servers and will be going obsolete on January 31, 2019. OneView provides the path to composability and the underlying management platform for Hybrid IT.

 

Recently, HPE announced OneView version 4.1.  This release of HPE OneView features several enhancements to lifecycle operations, including new cluster profiles and rolling cluster updates for VMware, and online firmware and BIOS updates for HPE ProLiant DL servers. HPE OneView Remote Technician offers secure, live troubleshooting with an HPE service technician for faster problem resolution. The security has been improved with the added support of CNSA mode and is FIPS 140-2 verified for the highest security protocols.

 

There are three key features included with HPE OneView:

 

1. Deploy infrastructure faster. OneView allows you to rapidly provision servers with template-based automation. The templates now include a new feature called cluster profiles to improve VMware deployments and rolling cluster updates.  Existing VMware clusters can be imported into OneView and managed as a single entity.  Rolling cluster updates allow users to automate cluster updates and eliminate downtime by keeping the workload up and running on available resources while other hosts get updated.

 

2. Increase productivity. With extensive API’s available, you can integrate HPE OneView into most scripting languages available for automated deployments, including Chef, Ansible, Puppet, Saltstack, and PowerShell. The HPE Composable infrastructure allows you to programmatically control the infrastructure through a single, open RESTful API and can automate the provisioning, configuration and monitoring.

 

3. Simplify life cycle operations. OneView and OneView Global Dashboard streamlines the management and allows you to see a single, unified view of the health of thousands of servers, profiles, enclosures and frames across multiple data centers. Get near real-time visibility of the health and status of HPE servers and storage across the globe in multiple data centers.  OneView and OneView Global Dashboard provides a unified view of HPE Synergy, HPE BladeSystem c-Class, HPE ProLiant DL/ML servers, HPE Hyper Converged 380, HPE Apollo systems, HPE SimpliVity, HPE 3PAR StoreServ, and HPE StoreVirtual VSA storage in a single view.

 

 

 

The new Remote Technician capability provides faster problem resolution.  Remote Technician allows you to grant temporary, secure access for live assistance from an HPE certified service technician.  This is done on a case-by-case basis.

 

 

 

Contact Zunesis to learn more about HPE OneView and how it can help manage your infrastructure.

 

Composable

 

Have you heard the term “composable infrastructure” and aren’t really sure what it is? You’re not alone. There’s a lot of confusion out there about infrastructures of all types, from converged to hyper converged and now composable, so we understand the confusion. First, let’s talk about three types of infrastructures to give you a bit more background:

 

• Converged Infrastructure. This is a hardware-focused, static (aka it doesn’t change) infrastructure that supports both private and cloud environments.
• Hyper Converged Infrastructure (HCI). In an HCI environment, the infrastructure is software-defined instead of hardware-focused like a converged infrastructure. All of the various technologies (compute, storage, networking, and virtualization) are integrated together into a hardware box from a single vendor.
• Composable Infrastructure. Here, nothing is static. It consists of compute, fabric, and storage modules that you can access and use as you need them.

 

The main differentiator for a composable infrastructure, specifically one from Hewlett Packard Enterprise, is that it’s completely programmable and software-defined. This means that you can access your composable infrastructure to configure and reconfigure all of the resources—compute, fabric, and storage—for whatever your particular workflow needs are at that moment. Composable infrastructure is hallmarked by these three differentiators:

 

• Fluid Pool of Resources. Your compute, storage, and fabric resources are pooled together and provisioned to use at will.
• Software-Defined Intelligence. This is where you define the resources you need and manage the resource lifecycle.
• Unified API. The HPE OneView is a programmable interface that you use to set everything up through just one line of code.

 

 

Synergy

 

For composable infrastructure, we work with HPE Synergy. Maybe you’ve heard of that, too, and aren’t sure what it’s all about? Let’s dig in.

 

Consider this: You need to test something, and in order to do that, you need resources. So, to deploy those necessary resources, you would go to the Synergy template and request the exact resources you need in the form of an infrastructure. Synergy then quickly gets to work to compose the exact infrastructure you need from the pool of resources. When you’re done with what you’re working on, you then go back into Synergy and release those resources back into the pool for others to use.

 

Now that you know more about it, contact us to learn how we can help you make the move to composable infrastructure.