As IT is adopting converged infrastructures, virtualization, and the Cloud, the need for a truly converged management tool is undeniable.
Traditional siloed management is not efficient or effective in today’s IT infrastructures. Imagine managing your servers, storage, network and facilities from one easy to use and consistent management application. HP has made this a reality with HP OneView, the first true converged management tool for HP-infrastructures.
Using a software-defined converged infrastructure management application will increase efficiency and reduce risk. HP OneView fosters more collaboration in your organization, automates repetitive mundane tasks so they are completed more consistently and reliably, and ultimately prevents user mistakes.
Automation is a key component of HP OneView. With convergence and automation comes speed and efficiency. In a traditional siloed IT environment it realistically takes more than two days to deploy a 32-node cluster, including the configuration of 32 servers, creating storage volumes and attaching them to Hosts. With HP OneView this same task can be done in less than two and a half hours.
The key is using HP OneView’s software-defined templates to automate the entire process. HP sees a 96% reduction in configuration times across servers, O/S, storage, and networking with the use of templates. Additionally, automation speeds up hardware, firmware, and BIOS updates and patches.
These five common data center tasks are simplified when HP OneView is used to define management and process in the data center.
- Identify—Identify issues and potential health concerns at a glance with HP OneView’s dashboard. Administrators have the flexibility to create their own dashboards for quick analytics and to review the environment they are personally responsible for.
- Collect—Eliminate tedious manual search processes using HP OneView’s Smart Search capabilities to easily find what you are looking for in your collected data.
- Understand—Gain a broader understanding of relationships between logical and physical resources with the Map View that provides an at a glance view of the configuration and relationships in your data center.
- Collaborate—Reduce error, capture best practices, and ease collaboration between teams with HP OneView’s software-defined template based environment.
- Communicate—View alerts and current activity with the Activity View. Alerts and activity reports are sent automatically so you always see the big picture when issues arise.
HP OneView’s standard version is free and can be downloaded by customers that currently use HP servers and/or HP storage. HP OneView is replacing several HP legacy management applications, such as, HP Systems Insight Manager (SIM), Virtual Connect Manager (VCM/VCEM), and HP Smart Update Manager (SUM). HP’s free version includes inventory monitoring, basic reporting, and search capabilities.
HP’s advanced version is fee-based and delivers powerful software-defined infrastructure that includes profile, group and set driven configuration management, additional firmware management, O/S provisioning and automation, API integration, storage provisioning, SAN zoning, and partner integration. HP OneView is also tightly integrated with VMware vCenter and VMware vCenter Operations Manager.
Industry experts are saying that HP has raised the bar for innovation with HP OneView. As one of HP’s top national partners as well as an industry leader for SDDC and Converged Infrastructure, Rolta AdvizeX can show you how easy it is to get HP OneView managing and simplifying your HP datacenter. ▪