HP Smart Update Best Practices Planning Guide

NOTE: HP SUM does not support third-party controllers. This includes flashing hard drives
behind these controllers.
• Remote online deployment of I/O Card firmware on HP ProLiant and HP Integrity targets
running HP-UX
For information on the firmware types that HP SUM supports, see HP Smart Update Manager User
Guide, available on the HP SUM documentation website at http://www.hp.com/go/hpsum/
documentation.
HP SIM and Version Control Agent
HP SIM enables system administrators to manage their systems. It provides hardware level
management for HP ProLiant, Integrity, and 9000, HP BladeSystem servers, and HP StorageWorks
MSA, EVA, and XP storage arrays. HP SIM enables you to quickly determine if a server is in
alignment with a given baseline. With the SIM built-in report generation capabilities, you can
quickly generate reports that show which servers are out of date.
For more information, see the HP SIM website at http://www.hp.com/go/hpsim.
NOTE: An MDS600 firmware update requires that all blades, except the blade performing the
update, be powered off before you begin the firmware update.
HP OneView
Optimized for collaboration, productivity, and reliability, the HP OneView appliance is designed
to provide simple, single-pane-of-glass lifecycle management for the complex aspects of enterprise
IT—servers, networking, software, power and cooling, and storage.
Architecture
HP OneView is delivered as a virtual appliance running in a VMware vSphere virtual machine.
In contrast to management environments that require predefined serialized workflows and different
tools for different tasks, HP OneView is a scalable resource-oriented solution focused on the entire
life cycle—from initial configuration to on-going monitoring and maintenance—of both logical and
physical resources:
• Logical resources are items such as networks, server profiles, and connections.
• Physical resources are items you can touch, such as server hardware, interconnects, and
enclosures.
Software-defined flexibility—your experts design configurations for efficient
and consistent deployment
The appliance provides several software-defined resources, such as groups and server profiles, to
enable you to capture the best practices of your experts across a variety of disciplines, including
networking, storage, hardware configuration, and operating system build and configuration. By
having your experts define the server profiles and the networking groups and resources, you can
eliminate cross-silo disconnects. By using RBAC (role-based access control) and the groups, sets,
and server profiles established by your experts, you can enable system administrators to provision
and manage thousands of servers without requiring that your experts be involved with every server
deployment.
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