HP OneView - Manual (Page 121)

16 Managing server hardware and server profiles
Managing servers with the appliance involves interacting with several different resources on the
appliance:
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A server profile captures 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.
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A server profile enables management of your server hardware.
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An instance of server hardware is a physical server, such as an HP ProLiant BL460c Gen8
Server Blade, installed in an enclosure or an HP ProLiant DL380p rack mount server.
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A server hardware type defines the characteristics of a specific server model and set of
hardware options, such as mezzanine cards.
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A connection, which is associated with a server profile, connects a server to the data center
networks.
Server profiles provide most of the management features for servers, but server hardware and
server profiles are independent of each other:
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A physical server, which is an instance of server hardware, might or might not have a server
profile assigned to it.
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A server profile might be assigned to one instance of server hardware, or no server hardware
at all.
It is the combination of the server hardware and the server profile assigned to it that is the complete
server in the appliance.
You must use the server hardware resource to add physical servers to the appliance when you
install a rack mount server. Server blades are added to the appliance automatically when you add
an enclosure or install a server blade in an existing enclosure.
UI screens and REST API resources
REST API resource UI screen
server-profiles and connections Server Profiles
server-hardware Server Hardware
server-hardware-types Server Hardware Types
16.1 Managing server hardware
Server hardware represents an instance of server hardware, such as a physical server blade
installed in an enclosure, or a physical rack server. A server hardware type captures details about
the physical configuration of server hardware, and defines which settings are available to the
server profiles assigned to that type of server hardware.
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