HP OneView 1.0 Installation Guide Abstract This document guides you through a successful installation of HP OneView.
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Contents 1 Preparing for installation.............................................................................4 1.1 Appliance VM and host requirements.....................................................................................4 1.2 Planning for high availability................................................................................................4 2 Installing the appliance on a VM host...........................................................5 2.1 Obtaining the OVA file............
1 Preparing for installation This chapter describes the VM host requirements for installing HP OneView. For information about hardware, software, firmware, and web browser requirements for managing resources with HP OneView, see the HP OneView Support Matrix available at http://www.hp.com/go/oneview/ docs. 1.1 Appliance VM and host requirements HP OneView is delivered as a virtual appliance running on a VMware vSphere Hypervisor VM (virtual machine).
2 Installing the appliance on a VM host HP OneView is delivered as an OVF (Open Virtual Format) package for installation on a vSphere Hypervisor host. The HP OneView OVF package is distributed in OVA format (Open Virtual Appliance or Application). You must have VMware vSphere Hypervisor Client (a Microsoft Windows application) installed on the host system, and you must have access to a VMware vCenter server to install HP OneView. 2.
e. f. On the Storage screen, select a storage destination for the VM files. On the Disk Format screen, select the format for storing the virtual disks. CAUTION: HP recommends that you select Thick Provision Eager Zeroed. If you select thin provisioning, the appliance VM is suspended when the system runs out of disk space.
2.3.1 Access to the appliance console Restrict access to the appliance console (by using the hypervisor management software) to prevent unauthorized users from attempting to access the password reset and service access features. See “Restricting console access” (page 7). Typical legitimate uses for access to the console are: • Troubleshooting network configuration issues • Resetting an appliance administrator password. • Enabling service access by an on-site authorized support representative.
3. On the HP OneView Support screen, decide if you want to Enable or Disable authorized services access to your appliance. For more information, see “Enabling or disabling authorized services access” (page 9). 4. Click OK to continue.
2.4.1 Enabling or disabling authorized services access When you first start up the appliance, you can choose to enable or disable access by on-site authorized support representatives. By default, on-site authorized support representatives are allowed to access your system through the appliance console and diagnose issues that you have reported.
2. Change the default password to a password of your choice that contains at least 8 characters. 2.6 Configuring the appliance network You can configure the appliance network using the UI or using REST APIs. 2.6.1 Using the UI to configure the appliance network. After you install HP OneView and log in for the first time, the Appliance Networking screen appears.
Most of the information on this screen is provided for you. However, you will need to enter the following information: • Appliance host name. A default name appears in the appliance host name field, but you can change the default name to a host name of your choice. 2.
NOTE: If you specify DNS (Domain Name Service) either directly or indirectly, you must specify the appliance host name by its fully qualified host name. • The IPv4 address. NOTE: HP OneView requires an IPv4 address. You can configure an IPv6 address on the appliance and use it to connect to the appliance from your browser; however, HP OneView requires IPv4 to communicate with managed resources. • DNS server addresses. If you are using DNS, enter the DNS server addresses here.
3 Next steps This chapter describes the steps you will need to perform after installing HP OneView to begin configuring your data center for management, as well as where to find more information. 3.1 Bring your data center under appliance management After installation, you will need to configure resources in HP OneView and bring your environment under management. Initial configuration consists of several tasks, including the following: • User management. ◦ • Adding users to the appliance.
• HP OneView Installation Guide • HP OneView User Guide • HP OneView REST API Reference • zip file of the HP OneView UI and REST API HTML help files • Technical white papers NOTE: 14 Next steps To submit documentation feedback to HP, send email to docsfeedback@hp.com.
4 Troubleshooting installation issues This chapter describes issues that you might experience when you install HP OneView, and provides possible solutions. 4.1 You cannot deploy the OVA file Symptom Possible cause and recommendation The following message The OVA file name was not included in the selected path. appears: The OVF • You must specify the complete address of the OVA file that resides in the OVA file directory.
4.5 VM does not restart when VM host time is manually set 16 Symptom Possible cause and recommendation The appliance VM does not restart and the following error appears in the vSphere virtual console: The superblock last mount time is in the future UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY. You are not using NTP and the VM host’s time was incorrectly set to a time in the past. • Reset the time settings on the VM host to the correct time, and then restart the VM appliance.
5 Support and other resources To learn how to contact HP, obtain software updates, submit feedback on documentation, and locate links to HP OneView websites and other related HP products, see the following topics. 5.
See http://www.hp.com/go/insightlicense for more information. 5.4.2 Using your software technical support and update service Once registered, you receive a service contract in the mail containing the customer service phone number and your Service Agreement Identifier (SAID). You need the SAID when you phone for technical support. 5.4.3 Obtaining HP OneView software and firmware updates See http://www.hp.com/go/oneviewupdates to obtain HP OneView software updates and product-specific firmware bundles. 5.
• HP Storage products http://www.hp.com/go/storage • HP Virtual Connect http://www.hp.com/go/virtualconnect 5.6 Submit documentation feedback HP is committed to providing documentation that meets your needs. To help us improve our documentation, send errors, suggestions, and comments to: docsfeedback@hp.com For UI and REST API help In your email message, include the product name, product version, help edition, and publication date located on the legal notices page.
A Using the virtual appliance console A.1 Using the virtual appliance console The virtual appliance console has a restricted browser interface that supports the following: • Appliance networking configuration in non-DHCP environments • Password reset requests for the Administrator account • Advanced diagnostics for authorized support representatives Use the virtual appliance console to access the appliance and configure the appliance network for the first time.
B Best practices for managing a VM appliance B.1 Best practices for managing a VM appliance HP recommends the following guidelines for managing your VM appliance from the virtual console: Do Do not • Use thick provisioning. • Use thin provisioning. • Use shares and reservations to • Update the VMware tools. If VMware Tools show Out of Date or ensure adequate CPU performance. Unmanaged, they are running correctly. These status messages are not a problem, because the tools are available and running.
C Enabling off-appliance browsing of UI and REST API HTML help files This chapter helps you gain access to the appliance UI help or REST API help before you have installed the appliance. C.1 Enabling off-appliance browsing of UI and REST API HTML help files 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 from the HP OneView Information Library.
