HP OneView 1.0 User Guide

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• The appliance does not support the filtering of resources, such as server hardware, based on
physical location (data center name). To enable filtering by data center name, choose a
naming convention that includes the data center name in the resource name.
• The appliance supports the filtering of resources by model, so you can search for server
hardware without having to include the model number in the name.
• The appliance provides default names for many resources. For example:
Enclosures are assigned the name Encln, where n is a number that is incremented by
1 as each enclosure is added.
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◦ enclosure_name-LI is the default name of a logical interconnect, where
enclosure_name is the name of the enclosure.
◦ Datacenter 1 is the name assigned to the data center when you initialize the appliance.
◦ Server hardware types are assigned names based on the server model, such as BL460c
Gen8 1. If you select a server hardware type as a standard, you can choose to rename
that server hardware type to include the word Standard or some other identifier to help
administrators quickly determine the correct server hardware type to choose.
• You can create shorter names by using abbreviations for resources. For example:
Typical abbreviationsResource name
EnclEnclosure
EG, GroupEnclosure group
LILogical interconnect
LIGLogical interconnect group
USUplink set
For more information about the search capabilities of the appliance, see “Search resources”
(page 67).
7.5 Planning the appliance configuration
7.5.1 Appliance VM and host requirements
HP OneView is delivered as a virtual appliance running on a VMware vSphere Hypervisor VM
(virtual machine).
IMPORTANT: HP OneView cannot import existing VC (HP Virtual Connect) domain configurations,
so do not select a host system located in an enclosure that you plan to manage with HP OneView.
You can, however, select a host system located on an HP ProLiant DL rack mount server that you
plan to manage with HP OneView.
The VM host must be able to support a VM with the following minimum requirements:
• VMware vSphere Hypervisor 5.0 or 5.1.
• Two 2 GHz virtual CPUs.
• 10 GB of memory dedicated to the appliance.
• 160 GB of thick-provisioned disk space.
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