HP OneView 1.05 User Guide

7 Planning your data center resources
In addition to ensuring that your environment meets the prerequisites for installation of the appliance,
there are other planning tasks you might want to complete before adding data center resources.
By completing these planning tasks, you can create a data center configuration that takes full
advantage of the appliance features and is easier for your administrators to monitor and manage.
7.1 How many data centers?
An appliance data center resource represents a physically contiguous area in which racks containing
IT equipment are located. You create data centers in the appliance to describe a lab floor or a
portion of a computer room, which provides a useful grouping to summarize your environment
and its power and thermal requirements.
Using data centers to describe the physical topology and power systems of your environment is
optional. If you choose to create multiple data centers, consider including data center information
in your other resource names to enable you to use the appliance search capabilities to filter results
by data center.
7.2 Security planning
This section recommends security decisions you might want to make before you install the appliance
or bring hardware under management.
To learn about the security features of the appliance, and for general information about protecting
the appliance, see “Understanding the security features of the appliance” (page 45).
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 139).
Network traffic should also be considered as described in “About active/active and active/standby
configurations” (page 147).
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
7.1 How many data centers? 85