HP OneView 1.05 User Guide

16.2.1 Roles
• Minimum required privileges: Infrastructure administrator or Server administrator
16.2.2 Tasks for server profiles
The appliance online help provides information about using the UI or the REST APIs to:
• Get information about a server profile.
• Create and apply a server profile.
• Specify identifiers and addresses when creating a server profile.
• Connect the server to data center networks by adding a connection to a server profile.
• Edit the BIOS settings of a server profile.
• Manage the boot order of a server profile.
• Manage virtual or physical IDs for the server hardware.
• Copy, edit, or delete a server profile.
• Move a server profile to another server.
• Power on and off the server hardware to which the server profile is assigned.
• Install a firmware bundle using a server profile.
NOTE: Firmware will not be downgraded to the selected firmware baseline when applying
a server profile. Use an external tool, for example HP SUM, to force firmware downgrades
or rewrites.
• View activities.
16.2.3 About server profiles
After setting up your environment, you can create hardware-specific server profiles to provision
hundreds or thousands of servers as easily as you provision one server. A server profile is the
configuration for a server instance. Server profiles capture the entire server configuration in one
place, enabling you to consistently replicate new server profiles and to rapidly modify them to
reflect changes in your data center environment.
A server profile includes:
• Basic server identification information
• Connectivity on specific Ethernet networks, network sets, and Fibre Channel networks
• Firmware versions
• BIOS settings
• Boot order
• Physical or virtual UUIDs, MAC addresses, and WWN addresses
You can create an unassigned server profile to serve as a server profile template. Typically, you
capture your best practice configurations in a server template, and then copy and deploy instances
as individual server profiles. Similar to VM (virtual machine) templates, profiles enable you to
create a provisioning baseline for server hardware types in an enclosure.
Server profiles are locked to a specific server hardware type and enclosure group at the time the
profile is created, whether the profile is assigned or unassigned.
Applying the sections of a server profile to server hardware is a sequential process. The screen
displays the current section being applied, followed by other sections that are successfully applied.
If a server profile needs to be reapplied due to an error, only the unconfigured sections and yet
126 Managing server hardware and server profiles