HP OneView 1.0 User Guide

11 Quick Start: Adding an enclosure and connecting its
server blades to networks
This quick start describes the process to add an enclosure to an existing appliance environment
and enable the server blades to access the existing data center networks.
The steps you take to add an enclosure and ensure that its server blades are connected to the data
center networks depend on whether you use an existing enclosure group, or if you need to define
the network connectivity by configuring enclosure groups, and logical interconnects and their uplink
sets.
For a server blade in an enclosure to connect to a data center network, you must ensure that several
resources are configured. For a complete list of resources and the reasons you need them, see
“Checklist: connecting a server blade to a data center network” (page 99).
Logical interconnect groups, their uplink sets, and their associated enclosure groups can be created
in different ways:
• You can create them before the enclosure is added to the appliance.
• You can create them as part of the enclosure add operation. During the enclosure add
operation, the appliance detects the interconnects installed in the enclosure and creates the
groups based on the hardware in the enclosure. You complete the configuration of the groups
before you complete the enclosure add operation.
11.1 Checklist: connecting a server blade to a data center network
Connecting a server blade to a data center network requires the following resources:
• Enclosure group
• Enclosure
• Logical interconnect group
• Logical interconnect
• Uplink set
• Network or network set
• Server profile assigned to server hardware
The following table describes the configuration elements required for a server blade to connect to
a data center network.
Why you need itConfiguration requirement
The logical interconnect group defines the standard configurations to be
used for the interconnect modules in the enclosure.
Enclosure must specify a logical
interconnect group
The uplink set determines which data center networks are permitted to
send traffic over which physical uplink ports.
Logical interconnect group must have at
least one uplink set
The uplink sets defines the networks that are to be accessible from this
logical interconnect.
Uplink set must include at least one network
The uplink set defines which hardware ports can accept traffic from which
networks.
Uplink set must include at least one uplink
port
The server hardware provides the physical connections to at least one
interconnect that is part of the logical interconnect.
Server profile must be assigned to server
hardware
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