Marketing description

HP OneView is a fresh approach to converged infrastructure management, inspired by the way you expect to work, with a single integrated view of your IT infrastructure.
HP OneView delivers a modern, integrated workspace for IT team collaboration. HP OneView is a software-defined management platform that deliberately addresses the challenges of manual operations, human error, and limited extensibility in virtualized BladeSystem and rack server environments. It is an optimal management platform for BladeSystem environments. By capturing processes, configurations, and best-practices in software, HP OneView creates a modern collaborative management approach that automates the deployment and management of infrastructure repeatedly, reliably, and at scale.
HP OneView delivers lifecycle management from a single, integrated platform designed for every member of the team to increase their productivity. It facilitates collaboration, removes friction and accelerates time to value. Transform inefficiencies into converged, agile operations that collapse cycle times and eliminate error-prone work. And because HP OneView is designed for open integration with existing tools and processes, it enables you to more effectively pursue your organization's IT objectives. With HP OneView, you will work smarter-with greater visibility and control and fully capitalize on the benefits of a converged infrastructure.

Key selling points

• Converged infrastructure groups and server profiles
• Enclosure groups and logical interconnect groups
• Logical interconnects with enclosure-level stacking
• Network sets and uplink sets
• Pervasive smart search and map view
• System health monitoring
• Firmware management and updates
• Server provisioning
• Environmental management
• Remote management (iLO Advanced)
• Easy-to-setup management appliance
• Full access via REST API and state-change message bus

Product features

• Modern architecture
  HP OneView is a lifecycle management platform for the converged infrastructure. It manages the physical infrastructure needed to support virtualization, cloud computing, and mixed computing environments. Deploying, managing, troubleshooting, and maintaining a converged infrastructure for thousands of workloads is handled as easily as one. HP OneView is a resource-oriented solution focused on the entire hardware lifecycle - from initial configuration to on-going monitoring and maintenance of both logical and physical resources.
• Single, integrated platform
  With a single, integrated platform, every member of the team - across servers, storage, and networking - increases their productivity. It facilitates collaboration, removes friction and accelerates time to value. Transform inefficiencies into converged, agile operations that collapse cycle times and eliminate error-prone work. And because HP OneView is designed for open integration with existing tools and processes, it enables you to more effectively pursue your organization's IT objectives. With HP OneView, you will work smarter-with greater visibility and control-and fully capitalize on the benefits of a Converged Infrastructure.
• Simplicity by design
  HP OneView streamlines day-to-day responsibilities by eliminating time-consuming process steps and tasks, leading to increased productivity and reduced costs. Manage IT across the entire infrastructure lifecycle-designing, provisioning, monitoring, updating-through a single interface that is designed for the way you think and work. With HP OneView, you will perform with unprecedented ease, speed, and confidence. Respond to business requests more quickly, stay ahead of growing IT needs, and keep an eye on the bigger picture.
• Software-defined flexibility
  Prepare for growth by capturing and standardizing your IT team's best practices-leveraging your best expertise across the organization. HP OneView keeps your best-practice approaches intact as you grow, but still allows for customization so that you maintain ultimate control. Faster provisioning, greater configuration consistency, and fewer errors dramatically improve IT performance overall.
• Open integration
  HP OneView is designed with an open API and a state-change message bus to allow easy integration into the full capabilities of the management architecture. A single, consistent resource model is embodied in a HTML5 user interface and the representational state transfer (REST) API. You can use the REST API to automate, integrate, and customize anything you can do from the UI using your favorite scripting or programming language.
• Virtual connect management
  HP virtual connect provides wire-once, change-ready environment to make it easy for administrators to manage their dynamic network environment at the server edge. HP OneView simplifies the deployment of various virtual connect environments: single enclosure, racks of enclosures in a single data center, and across data centers.
• Remote management (iLO Advanced)
  HP OneView licenses iLO Advanced, HP's comprehensive lights-out remote management solution for ProLiant servers. This environment-management solution includes numerous key features to help solve complex IT problems.
• Environmental management
  HP OneView integrates resources to provide you with a power monitoring and energy management solution that is designed to scale to the level of your datacenter. Centralized monitoring of datacenter power consumption and thermal output is complemented with energy instrumentation connected into HP iLO capabilities, allowing compatibility with any operating system residing on the managed server. HP OneView integrates three critical areas for environmental management of the data center: thermal data visualization, power delivery infrastructure representation, and physical asset location in 3D.
• System health
  Efficient data views and effective control enable you to respond to issues for managing the health of HP ProLiant servers. HP OneView simplifies 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. They are monitored immediately without requiring you to invoke additional configuration or discovery steps.
• Firmware updates and configuration change management
  HP OneView enables efficient, reliable, non-disruptive, and simple firmware management across the data center with firmware baseline capabilities.
• Server provisioning
  HP OneView provides the right-to-use a complete provisioning solution for HP servers, with capabilities for multi-server OS and firmware provisioning to ProLiant and BladeSystem servers. Server provisioning automates the process of deploying and provisioning server software, enabling companies to quickly and easily adapt to changing business demands.
• Security
  HP OneView provides a secure platform for data center management. Key security characteristics of the architecture provide a holistic basis for security: the separation of data and management planes, incorporation of best practices by using groups, and provisioning control.
• Backup
  HP OneView provides a specific user role for appliance backup without permitting 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 back up files for the appliance and its database files. Backups can be created while the HP OneView appliance is online, and the process can be scheduled from outside the management appliance with file collection according to your site policies.