HP OneView 1.0 User Guide

7.2.10 Reviewing your firewall access
The appliance maintains a firewall that allows traffic on specific ports and blocks all unused ports.
For a list of the network ports used by the appliance to manage data center resources, see “Ports
needed for HP OneView” (page 53).
7.3 Preparing your data center network switches
The switch ports for data center network switches that connect to the Virtual Connect interconnect
modules must be configured as described in “Data center switch port requirements” (page 115).
7.4 Planning your resource names
The banner of every screen includes the Smart Search feature, which enables you to find
resource-specific information such as instances of resource names, serial numbers, WWNs, and
IP and MAC addresses. In general, anything that appears in a resource is searchable.
Defining a standard naming convention for your networks, network sets, enclosures, enclosure
groups, logical interconnect groups, and uplink sets makes it easy for you to identify them and
enables efficient searching or filtering in the UI.
Consider the following information when choosing resource names:
• To minimize the need for name changes and to make network-related resources easier to
identify, consider choosing names that include the following information:
◦ The purpose of the resource. For example:
prod for production network resources
dev for development network resources
◦ For networks, the VLAN ID
◦ An identifier to help you distinguish between resources that use the left side or the right
side of an enclosure. For example:
left and right
A and B
1 and 2
◦ Examples of network names that follow the recommended naming conventions include
the following:
dev_1105_A
prod_1102_1
test_1111_left
◦ If you plan to use multi-network connections in server profiles, create network sets that
contain all the networks to be used by a single profile connection. Choose names such
as the following:
dev_nset_A
prodnset_1
testns_left
◦ Changing the names of uplinks sets can result in resources being taken offline temporarily
(see “Configuration changes that require or result in resource outages” (page 85)). To
minimize the need for name changes, and make the uplink sets easier to identify, choose
names such as the following:
devUS_A
prodUS_1
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