HP OneView 1.10 Installation Guide

A.2.1 Restricting console access
You can restrict console access to the virtual appliance through secure management practices of
the hypervisor itself.
For VMware vSphere, this information is available from the VMware website:
http://www.vmware.com
In particular, search for topics related to vSphere's Console Interaction privilege and best practices
for managing VMware's roles and permissions.
For Microsoft Hyper-V, restrict access to the console through role-based access. For information,
see the Microsoft website:
www.microsoft.com
A.3 Best practices for managing a VM appliance
HP recommends the following guidelines for managing your VM appliance from the virtual console:
Table 3 Best practices for managing a VMware vSphere virtual machine
Do notDo
• Use thin provisioning.• Use thick provisioning.
• •Use shares and reservations to ensure adequate CPU
performance.
Update the VMware tools. If VMware Tools show Out
of Date or Unmanaged, they are running correctly.
These status messages are not a problem, because the
tools are available and running. VMware tools are
updated with each HP OneView software update.
• Revert to a VM snapshot (unless under specific
circumstances, as instructed by your authorized support
representative).
• Set the Synchronize guest time with host option in the
vSphere client when the HP OneView appliance is
configured to use NTP. HP OneView automatically sets
the appropriate Synchronize guest time with host setting
during network configuration. When HP OneView is
configured to use NTP servers, the Synchronize guest
time with host option is disabled. If HP OneView is not
configured to use NTP servers, it synchronizes to the
host VM clock and the Synchronize guest time with host
option is enabled. In this case, configure the VM host
to use NTP.
• Reduce the amount of memory assigned to the VM.
Table 4 Best practices for managing a Hyper-V virtual machine
Do notDo
• Use fixed size. • Update integration services.
• Revert to a VM checkpoint (unless under specific
circumstances, as instructed by your authorized support
representative).
• Reduce the amount of memory assigned to the VM.
A.4 Enabling off-appliance browsing of UI HTML help and REST API HTML
help
To enable your users and developers to browse the HP OneView help and HP OneView REST API
Reference locally on their own computer or from a local web server, download the
hp-oneview-help.zip file and the hp-oneview-restapi.zip file from the Enterprise
Information Library.
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