HP OneView 1.10 User Guide

◦ Datacenter 1 is the name assigned to the data center when you initialize the appliance.
◦ Server hardware types are assigned names based on the server model, such as BL460c
Gen8 1. If you select a server hardware type as a standard, you can choose to rename
that server hardware type to include the word Standard or some other identifier to help
administrators quickly determine the correct server hardware type to choose.
• You can create shorter names by using abbreviations for resources. For example:
Typical abbreviationsResource name
EnclEnclosure
EG, GroupEnclosure group
LILogical interconnect
LIGLogical interconnect group
USUplink set
For more information about the search capabilities of the appliance, see “Search resources”
(page 72).
7.6 Planning the appliance configuration
These topics cover appliance configuration.
7.6.1 Appliance VM and host requirements
HP OneView is a virtual appliance running on the following supported hypervisor hosts.
Table 4 Supported hypervisors and versions
VersionHypervisor
• 5.0
• 5.0 update 1
• 5.0 update 2
• 5.0 update 3
• 5.1
• 5.1 update 1
• 5.1 update 2
• 5.5
• 5.5 update 1
VMware ESXi
Hyper-V is supported on the following Microsoft Windows platforms with the
Hyper-V role installed:
• Windows Server 2012
• Windows Server 2012 R2
Microsoft Hyper-V
The VM host must be able to support a VM with the following minimum requirements:
• Two 2 GHz virtual CPUs.
• 10 GB of memory dedicated to the appliance.
• 160 GB of thick-provisioned disk space.
7.6 Planning the appliance configuration 89