HP OneView how to series… Migrating a managed VCM ….. How to (5)

Migrating an enclosure managed by VCM into HP OneView

With HP OneView 1.20, Offline migration for the VC environment managed by an VCM supplied a very no time consuming procedures, the tool is offline as I said, but at least you don’t have to loose the environment configuration and re-create them from the beginning.

the Offline Migration tool includes a validation process, which will show you whether your VCM environment is compliant with HP OneView or not. for best practices, you should have your enclosure compliant before migrating to HP OneView. This will decrease the downtime, and will help ease of migration.

Prerequisites

• Minimum required privileges: HP OneView Infrastructure administrator Onboard Administrator and VCM Domain Administrator

• Backup and secure the VCM configuration.

• Firmware minimum pre-rquirement (VC 4.10, OA 4.10, iLO3 1.61, iLO4 1.30)

• OA and VCM credentials as well as the OA IP address for the enclosure, and OA,VCM, HP OneView are all in same subnet

• The following ports must be opened between the appliance and the enclosure (TCP 80, 443, UDP 123, 161, 162)

• verify the enclosure contains supported servers, interconnect modules, and mezzanine cards (Check the HP One View Compatibility Matrix

How to do so:

1. From the main menu, select Enclosures and do one of the following:

   • Click + Add enclosure in the master pane.

   • Select Actions→Add.

2. Enter the following information:

   • OA IP address or host name of the Virtual Connect enclosure

   • Your OA credentials (user name and password)

3. Select Managed for Add enclosure as.

4. Choose Migrate from Virtual Connect domain from the Enclosure Group list.

5. Select the appropriate licensing. See License types.

6. Click Add.

   The Migrate Enclosure screen appears.

7. Enter the data requested on the screen.

8. Click Test compatibility.

9. A report summary displays under Migration Details.

10. Review the summary.

    • If the summary indicates no errors (except power on issues), power off the serverspower off the servers, run a final compatability test, and click OK to start the migration. Continue to step 10.

    • If the summary indicates errors, click View full report to view and resolve any blocking issues. See Resolve compatibility issues for more information.

11. If the activity is successful, the activity displays a green status in the Notifications area. If not, follow the proposed resolution listed under Details in the Notifications area.

12. Power on the servers.

 

Pics forr this migration aren’t available right now, but soon I will update this post with pics

HP OneView Series Part 5

                                                                                                     part 5 of HP OneView Series

Now with part 5 lets begin installing the HP OneView 1.20 for our environment. as Mentioned before the HP OneView comes in the form of Virtual Appliance, thus we need a Hypervisor to deploy it. You can use either VMware vSphere ESXi, or Microsoft Hyper-V.

Some recommendations for the Hypervisor are requested:

There are also some Hardware requirements that needs to be available:

1. The Host must be Proliant G7 or later. (DL Rack mounted, or BL server)
2. Two 2GHz virtual CPU’s or greater.
3. 10GB of Memory, dedicated to the appliance.
4. 170 GB Hard disk drive, that are Thick Provisioned.
5. One Network adapter connected to the Management Network.
6. the Virtual appliance should sync the date and time with the VM Host. Otherwise you should configure the Sync with an available NTP Server.

You should deploy the VM Appliance onto a Blade, and gain the capability for the Hypervisor High Availability, either “HA Cluster and vMotion” using ESXi or “Failover Cluster “ using MS Hyper-V.

Now after you have prepared the VM, go to the following link:  https://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=Z7550-63180

You have downloaded an .ova file (open Virtual appliance) which contain and .ovf file (open virtual format) package. I am going to discuss and show how to deploy the HP OneView based on vSphere ESXi hypervisor.

1. Start the vSphere client and log into vSphere Web Client.
2. From the menu, select File→Deploy OVF Template to launch the Deploy OVF Template wizard.
3. On the Source screen, specify the path to the OVA file, Verify the information on the OVF Template Details screen.
4. On the Name and Location screen, enter a name and location for the deployed template
   that is unique within the inventory folder, and then select the inventory location, On the Host / Cluster screen, select the cluster on which to run the deployed
   template.
5. On the Storage screen, select a storage destination for the VM files.
6. On the Disk Format screen, select the format for storing the virtual disks. (It is recommended to choose THICK Provisioned EAGER Zeroed).
7. On the Network Mapping screen, select a network that has connectivity to your
   management LAN.
8. On the Summary tab, click Power on the virtual machine. Click the Console tab to watch the appliance start.
9. now accept the Eula and Enable or Disable the HP OneView.
10. login to your Appliance Default username is: Administrator, password is:admin (Password is case sensitive).

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HP OneView Series Part 4

                                                                                                                                  part 4 of HP OneView Series

HP OneView for VMware vCenter and Microsoft System Center

1. HP OneView for VMware vCenter:

Servers and storage are managed together under HP OneView for VMware vCenter as this enables access to vCenter server client health and inventory and configuration monitoring, with the capability to combine both physical and virtual view of your virtualized infrastructure.

HP OneView for VMware vCenter delivers comprehensive management making it easy for you to view and change some HP specific information.

Also VMware vCenter Operations Manager enables deeper analytics and troubleshooting thus when you redeem your HP OneView License , you will be entitled to the HP vCenter Operations Manager integration with your available HP OneView standard license and no need for advanced one.

The HP OneView for VMware vCenter delivers a comprehensive:

1. System health and alerting for servers and VC networking Enviroment.
2. Remote Control and deployment of servers and OS.
3. Monitor health, configuration and capacity of HP Storage.
4. Virtualize the relation between VMware VMs, ESX servers and HP Storage arrays.
5. Easier control by launching your trusted HP management tools with a single click from the vSphere dashboard
6. Proactively manage or view changes with detailed relationship dashboards of server, networking and storage
7. Maintain stability and reliability with firmware inventory and deployment
8. Simple on demand server and storage capacity provisioning

you can download and try HP OneView for VMware vCenter and try it from: https://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do%3FproductNumber%3DHPVPR

1. HP OneView for Microsoft System Center:

The HP OneView for Microsoft System Center delivers health Monitoring via HP Prliant Windows Linux and Agentless Management Packs in SCOM, with HP SCCM 2010 Integration Kit (for OS deployment and HP Inventory tools) and HP SCVMM 2010 Integration Kit (for OS deployment).

By integrating the server management features of HP ProLiant and HP BladeSystem into Microsoft System Center consoles, administrators can gain greater control of their technology environments. This provides consistency for software deployment and updates and enables a faster response in the event of server failure, reducing the risk of downtime.

The server software and firmware updates are done via the HP Proliant Update catalog of SCCM and SCVMM. The OneView for Microsoft System Center still deliver health Monitoring via HP OneView management Pack for SCOM, and HP will continue to provide basic management Packs as no charge downloads

 

you can download and try HP OneView for Microsoft System Center and try it from: http://www8.hp.com/us/en/products/server-software/product-detail.html?oid=5390822#!tab=features

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HP OneView Series part 3

                                                                                                                                  part 3 of HP OneView Series

HP OneView and the REST Language

HP OneView is built on a modern RESTFUL Interface, thus we can fully program, automate any process step and allow HP OneView to snap into larger process of work flows.

Using RESTFUL Language, with 4 simple commands, we can define and radically simplify the most complex processes, the good thing is that all HP OneView APIs are published and freely available for anyone to use.

the Question now is, WHAT is REST and RESTFUL? the reply would be in the coming lines.

REST (REoresentational State Transfer) is an Architectural style, and an approach for communication that is often used in the development of scalable web services. REST is a coordinated set of constrains applied to the design of components is a distributed hypermedia system that can lead to a more performing and maintainable architecture. This architectural style was developed by W3C (WWW) Technical Architectural Group (TAG) in parallel to HTTP 1.1, while RESTFUL APIs are web services subsidiary from the main language REST.

The use of REST is often preferable over the more heavy weight SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) style because REST Doesn’t leverage as much bandwidth, which makes it better fir fir internet usage.

The SOAP approach requires writing or using a provider server program (To serve data) and a client program (to request data). REST design involves reading a designated webpage that contains XML file, which describes and includes the desired content. you can see some of the comparisons in the table at the right.

REST is not only now implemented by HP, but also Amazon, Microsoft, Google, mobile apps and most cloud Service providers.

HP used to use SOAP in their HP Insight Control Environment, but now they are using REST APIs for HP OneView

 

REST provides the following Advantages:

1. RESTFUL web services are  easy to leverage by most tools including those that are free and inexpensive, which is the used method in most cloud providers.
2. SOAP services are much harder to scale than RESTFUL services, thus REST is chosen as the architecture of services that are exposed t the internet, like Facebook and Twitter.
3. REST uses a smaller message format than SOAP. SOAP uses XML for all messages which makes it’s size larger and thus less efficient.
4. REST is designed for use over the open Internet/Web which is better choice for Web Apps.

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HP OneView Series part 2

                                                                                                                                  part 2 of HP OneView Series

HP OneView – What is it?

HP OneView is a life cycle management platform for the converged infrastructure, it Replaces HP SIM,Insight Control, Virtual Connect, and Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager (VCEM). It Monitors only, Gen 6 and Gen 7 Servers (BL and DL, Moonshot), but manages and monitors Gen 8 and Gen 9 Servers (BL and DL, Moonshot).

HP OneView manages servers and VC. It builds on the base of the iLo Management Engine, which includes:

1. Integrated LightOuts for remote management.
2. Service Pack for Proliant for tested Firmware and drivers.
3. Smart Update Manager for firmware maintenance.
4. Active Health System.

HP OneView Sends Orders using RESTFUL APIs and receive the reply using State Change Message Bus (SCMB).

the HP OneView still uses Email event notification and reporting same as HP IC Environment, and the Standard License (No Cost) enables same capabilities as HP SIM (Server inventory, monitoring and reporting features), we call it the “Monitored mode”. While HP OneView Advanced License is referred to as ”Managed Mode”.

You can upgrade from HP OneView (1.0, 1.07,1.10, 1.15) directly to HP OneView 1.2 (which included huge amount of new features), with a new list of pre-defined reports that is available in the GUI and can be exported to CSV file, Excel file or can be printed as PDF files

HP OneView 1.20 Supports HP Proliant Gen9 servers in addition to Gen6, and Gen7 (monitor only) which was not available in the last versions, with additional magnificent tools for HP VC migration.

HP New Dash Board is customizable on a User-by User basis Since it is a role based solution, it contains Storage administrator, Server administrator, Network administrator or Storage administrator

1. Storage administrator — add/remove/create/edit/delete of storage resources, including managed fabrics
2. Server administrator — create/edit/delete of storage volume subjected to creation policy, create/edit/delete
   volume attachments
3. Network administrator or Storage administrator — create/edit/delete of Managed fabrics

HP OneView  has also another great feature which is including HP Operation Analytics as a built in Component in it, which enables Big Data analytics to log files, alerts and performance counters generated by HP OneView.

HP Operation analytics is a new analytic platform to support the Transformation IT. IT Operation analytics is an approach or method applied to application Software designed to retrieve, analyze and report data for IT operation, IT Operation Analytics technologies are primarily used to discover complex patterns in high volumes of often noisy IT Systems availability and Performance Data.

In other words, it is defined as the use of mathematical algorithms and other innovations to extract meaningful information from the sea of raw data collected by management and monitoring technologies. It has different types and different applications, But HP Operation Analytics is interested in specific type of log files, alerts and performance counters generated by HP OneView.

To download HP Operation analytics: https://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=HPOPS-A

HP Operation Analytics is the solution that:

1. Prepares:      by storing and understanding all of your machine data.
2. Predicts:        by applying Advanced machine learning on top of the data.
3. Pinpoints:     by instant reply to create history.

Analyzing OneView Data using HP Operations Analytics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNXCAY2pnHE

HP Operations Analytics – Big Data Analytics for IT Operations : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHF1LlCb8Y0

 

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HP OneView Series Useful Links

                                                                                                                                 

HP OneView Links

 

HP helpful links are always useful, and for HP OneView, here they are:

http://www.hp.com/go/OneView (documents)

http://www.hp.com/go/OneViewCommunity  (its this Community page)

http://www.hp.com/go/Oneview/Download  (download)

http://www.hp.com/go/OneViewDemos  (demos)

http://www.hp.com/go/OneView/docs

http://www.hp.com/services/OneViewServices

http://www.hp.com/go/OneViewdatasheet

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=HP+On​eView
http://www.hp.com/go/OneViewlog

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HP OneView Series

                                                                                                                                  part 1 of HP OneView Series

Introduction to HP OneView

After proceeding deep into the Data Center courses, and understanding the problems between the Business requirements and the IT Service Delivery, I realized that until this moment there are huge problems between both areas.

Business demands are increasing to cope with the competition in the market to reach their customer satisfaction as much as possible, and competition between companies increased that the customer got lost between their services, But at the end the customer sticks to the high available fast service. Also the IT service are still delivered in a loosy way, until now all vendors didn’t succeed in delivering the full-all-in-one compliant solution that can help admins to get the required output from their infrastructure, as the fact says that tools and processes are still isolated.

HP began a new era in delivering such thing, after studying the customer requirements and more than 1000 apps on mobile, in infrastructure, and IT Service delivery team needs, they got with the “HP OneView” which is designed to eliminate management complexity through convergence (designed to deliver management that spans servers, storage and networking ) using same interface, same templates and REST APIs.

In the coming Series I will be discussing the properties and capabilities of HP OneView, and I will try to fulfill all capabilities of this service.

HP OneView is a software defined which means that infrastructure elements are defined through templates. Everything that is used for management and control is done through a complete set of REST APIs, thus can be considered as a facility or Infrastructure Life Cycle automated manager, that can ensure that all physical facilities and equipment is fit for the purpose of continuous functionality.

Life Cycle is the measurements of multiple customer related metrics, that when analyzed for a period of time, indicates performance of the business.

Simplifying the day-to-day tasks in a datacenter, the processes are based on 5 main tasks, that HP has commissioned them in HP based on customer inspiration:

1. identifying and track what needs to be done  ===> can be seen in the “Dash board”
2. collect basic system and task information      ===> can be seen in the “Smart Search”
3. understanding dependencies is available       ===> can be seen in the “Map View”
4. collaborate with all teams                                 ===> can be seen in the “Templates”
5. Report the succession or failure                       ===> can be seen in the “Activity Feeds”

HP OneView is delivered as a Virtual appliance in Virtual Machine form, either for VMware vSphere or for Microsoft Hyper-V.

As you know looking from Datacenter prospective,  facilities are mainly power, cooling and Fire suppression systems, and for the devices it is considered to be the servers, storage and network ones.

HP OneView splits its components into Physical resources (Server Hardware, interconnect, storages and enclosures), and  logical resources (networks, server profiles and connections).

Download link for HP OneView is: https://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=Z7550-63180

Download link for product documentation:    http://h20195.www2.hp.com/v2/default.aspx?cc=us&lc=en&oid=5410258

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