HP OneView

Hewlett-Packard is unveiling a new product called HP OneView which is designed to give you a one stop shop to managing all of your data center management responsibilities.

If you’re familiar with the HP System Insight Management and Insight Control, you are probably aware of the difficult setup procedures required to get everything setup correctly and running smoothly.  The products are really useful in having a single place to manage the data center, but the setup process is a bit tedious.  My take on HP OneView is that it is a complete revamp of the HP SIM design which should be a welcomed site to those of you familiar with the old process.

HP OneView will be able to be your one stop shop for managing the following datacenter objects:

• Virtual Connect Management – Logical VC profiles can be setup ahead of time to be deployed over an over again.
• iLO Advanced Management – A single point to access all of your integrated Lights Out processes.
• Environmental Management – You can combine the following three features to give you a full view of the datacenter.

• 3D data center thermal mapping
• Power Discovery Services
• Location Discovery Services

• System Health – You must be able to see any system errors in one location.  The solution wouldn’t be complete without this.
• Server Provisioning – Data Centers are quickly changing.  We’ve gone from deploying servers in weeks, to minutes.  Now we need to be able to deploy servers through a service catalog in many different flavors.  
• Security – OneView will allow a single place for Role Based Access Controls (RBAC) and Single Sign On (SSO).  If an administrator left the organization and needed to be removed from thousands of iLO, Virtual Connect Modules, Servers, etc this could be very difficult to manage.  OneView will allow a single point to change permissions across the infrastructure.

HP has abandoned the HP SIM model of TreeBranch and moved towards a searching methodology.  The thought being that with large data centers an Internet like search method may be more useful than a drill down approach.

• Dashboard provides capacity and health information at your fingertips

• Map View allows you to visualize the relationships between your devices, up to the highest levels of your datacenter infrastructure

• Smart Search instantly gets you the information you want for increased productivity, with search support for all the elements in your inventory (e.g. search for alerts)
• Activity View allows you to display and filter all system tasks and alerts
• Group management enables administration, troubleshooting, and monitoring of large enterprise as though they were a fraction of their size
• Mobile access using a scalable, modern user interface based on HTML5