HP OneView User Manual

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case, the backup file must have been created from an appliance running the same version of HP
OneView.

Description

Actions during the restore
operation

During a restore operation, the appliance firmware validates the resource inventory
(enclosures, servers, interconnects) and reconciles the data in the backup file with the
current state of the managed environment. The state of the managed environment is likely
to be different from the state of that environment at the time the backup file was created.
After the restore operation, the appliance uses alerts to report any discrepancies that it
cannot resolve automatically.

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If you removed, and then re-added an enclosure after a backup file was created, and
then perform a restore operation using that backup file, you must refresh the enclosure
before the appliance can connect.

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If you added server hardware to the appliance after the backup file was created, that
hardware is not in the appliance database when the restore operation completes.
You must add that hardware to the appliance and then repeat any other configuration
changes (such as assigning server profiles) that were made between the time the
backup file was created and the restore operation completed.

Validates the resource
inventory

During the restore operation, the appliance refreshes each enclosure to validate its
contents—especially to ensure that the appliance still claims them. Then the appliance
refreshes each blade server and clears the virtual IDs of any servers added to an enclosure
since the last time the backup file was created. The appliance also refreshes all rack
servers to ensure they are claimed.

Refreshes enclosures to
validate contents

The appliance clears virtual IDs for server hardware that does not have a profile assigned
but does have virtual IDs configured. These servers most likely had a profile assigned
after the last backup was made.