7 things you must know

about HPE OneView

Infrastructure automation made easy

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? What is HPE OneView?
A breakthrough infrastructure management tool that simplifies Hybrid IT and
helps customers on the path to a composable infrastructure, HPE OneView is the
foundation for a software-defined data center—transforming servers, storage, and
networking into software-defined infrastructure. HPE OneView is 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
• Manage across compute, storage, and fabric with a single, easy-to-use interface
• Leverage a modern, standards-based API and a large and growing composable partner
ecosystem to increase the speed of IT delivery for new apps and services while efficiently
managing traditional IT, giving you the confidence that you are investing in an architecture
for the future with solid support
• Keep the highest levels of security with support for CNSA mode and now FIPS 140-2
validated for cryptographic modules
• Simplify IT operations by significantly reducing or eliminating downtime with non‑disruptive
firmware and driver updates

2 Key features

Deploy infrastructure faster Simplify lifecycle operations

• Save time to stand up infrastructure—From hours • Liberate valuable resources by reducing administrative
to minutes. time by up to 73%—Using template-driven firmware automation.
• Rapidly provision servers with template-based • Increase security of HPE OneView environments and
automation at scale—Requiring the same effort to deploy protect against cyber-attacks—With scope-based access
one server or thousands. Now including cluster profiles for control, two-factor authentication, and SNMPv3 support built
faster VMware® deployment. into HPE OneView. Now with the highest levels of security
• Instantly compose the industry’s most comprehensive with support for CNSA mode and now FIPS 140-2 validated
storage—Across SAN, SDS, and DAS. for cryptographic modules.
• Get near real-time visibility of the health and status
of thousands of HPE servers and storage across the
globe in multiple data centers with the HPE OneView
Global Dashboard—Delivering 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, with data center scale of up to 25 appliances/
composers, 54 enclosures, 150 HPE Hyper Converged 380
Increase productivity systems, and 25 HPE SimpliVity systems.
• Unified API—Enabling developers and IT administrators/ • Keep the business running with integrated 24x7 remote
generalists to automate infrastructure deployment and support of HPE infrastructure—Providing monitoring,
updates without detailed knowledge of how the underlying pre-failure alerts, automatic call logging, automatic parts
hardware works. dispatch, the ability to turn off remote support at the device
level for ease of maintenance, and contract/warranty display
• 53% reduction in average software build time—From
on each device.
74 minutes to 34 minutes using a Docker container host.1
• HPE OneView Remote Technician—For even faster
• Elimination of thousands of lines of error-prone code
problem resolution, HPE OneView Remote Technician allows
and time-consuming custom scripts—Using just a few
you to grant temporary, secure access on a case-by-case
lines of code.
basis for live assistance from an HPE service technician.
• Maximum choice and flexibility with extensive partner
• Extended HPE platform support—In addition to
integrations through the HPE Composable Partner
HPE BladeSystem and HPE 3PAR StoreServ storage
Program—VMware, Microsoft®, Chef, Docker, Ansible, Puppet,
support, also includes, HPE Apollo 2000, 4000, 6000, and
and many more. Now including Morpheus Data, CANCOM,
HPE ProLiant ML350 Gen9/10 advanced management, as
and InContinuum for hybrid cloud management.
well as standard monitoring support for HPE Superdome X
and the rest of the HPE ProLiant ML Gen8, Gen9, and Gen10
server family and HPE StoreVirtual VSA iSCSI storage.
• Automate HPE server hardware discovery—Rapidly bring
hundreds of servers into an HPE OneView environment in
just a few clicks, dramatically shortening server setup time.

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Why HPE OneView

Software-defined Global Dashboard A path to

intelligence provides near real-time composability
enables infrastructure intelligence for faster enables bare-metal and
automation across servers, decision-making in managing single-line-of-code
storage, and fabric, reducing thousands of HPE servers provisioning
IT costs; faster provisioning of and storage in multiple
servers and storage in minutes data centers across the globe
versus hours

Simplified lifecycle Enhanced security Single infrastructure

operations meets the needs for the management tool
reduces risk of human highest security protocols, consolidates multiple tools
error with template-based provides better visibility so you can manage your
automation of firmware and and control of your vital compute, server, and fabric via
device driver updates; infrastructure information, a single, unified view of your
develop once and replicate and reduces the risk of infrastructure
many times; rapidly bring unauthorized user access to
hundreds of servers into an system management resources
HPE OneView environment in
just a few clicks, dramatically
shortening server setup time
with auto-discovery

4 Migration path
Migrating to HPE OneView simplifies your day-to-day infrastructure management and hardware compliance by consolidating
tools and providing a single interface to manage your servers, storage, and networking.
HPE BladeSystem c-Class, ProLiant DL and ML, and Apollo servers—as well as HPE 3PAR StoreServ and StoreVirtual VSA
storage customers—can deploy HPE OneView and accelerate time-to-value with a free migration assistance assessment tool,
HPE migration support services, and HPE Education Services. HPE Virtual Connect users can leverage the fast, in‑service
Virtual Connect migration feature in HPE OneView for zero downtime. Contact your HPE sales representative for more information.

Services that accelerate adoption of HPE OneView

• HPE OneView Startup Installation and Configuration Service (fixed, U1V78E; flex, H6K67A1) includes an
orientation session on how to use the software.
• HPE OneView Installation and HPE BladeSystem c7000 Migration Service (fixed, U1V79E; flex, H6K68A1) assist
you in transitioning to HPE OneView from VCEM, as well as accelerating and simplifying deployment.
• HPE Startup BladeSystem c7000 Infrastructure Service (fixed, UE602E; flex, HA114A1#5FY) is a c7000
hardware installation service that allows you to also install and configure HPE OneView at the same time as the
hardware installation.
• HPE Education Services
––HPE OneView Overview and Configuration for Synergy WBT (course # H0LN3AAE) is a two-hour online
course that demonstrates key solution elements to help you get started.
––HPE OneView Administration (course # H4C04S) is a three-day instructor-led course that covers deeper‑level
HPE OneView administration with Virtual Connect network and storage configurations, scripting skills, and
performing day-to-day administration and troubleshooting tasks. This can be delivered on-site face-to-face or
virtually using our award-winning Virtual Instructor-Led Training methodology.
––A wealth of supporting eLearning for the HPE OneView ecosystem with short self-paced sessions on
HPE OneView integration with VMware vCenter®, Microsoft System Center, and other technologies.
For more information, visit hpe.com/ww/learnconvergedsystems.

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HPE Composable Infrastructure
Not only does HPE OneView simplify the management of your hybrid infrastructure today, but it also
ensures a smooth transition to a composable future. HPE OneView provides the software-defined
intelligence and unified API you need to compose and manage infrastructure with a single line of code.
With HPE OneView, you can optimize resources and enable them to be easily composed and recomposed
based on the needs of your business.
Through the HPE Composable Partner Program, an extensive list of partner integrations simplifies
IT and allows independent software vendors and developers to take advantage of the unified API in
HPE OneView to automate provisioning and management of physical infrastructure.

Software-defined Unified API Fluid resource pools

intelligence A single line of code for Effortlessly meeting changing
Using template-driven, your “Infrastructure as application needs
single-touch provisioning Code”

6 Customer use cases

“We have a finite set of resources, and we are “Porsche Informatik needed to ensure its
trying to provide the most impact to our business-critical apps remained highly
researchers, our educators, and to the available 24x7 and drive 100% accuracy of
entrepreneurs that are on HudsonAlpha’s its business outcomes. The company chose
campus. We do that with technology.” HPE Synergy and HPE OneView to help
– HudsonAlpha
them meet these goals.”
– Porsche Informatik

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