Storage provisioning and management

HPE OneView provides automated, policy-driven provisioning of supported storage resources. It is fully integrated with server profiles so that you can manage your new or existing storage infrastructure. With HPE OneView, you can view and manage your storage system and storage pools. You can add existing volumes and create volumes, and then you can create volume templates to provision multiple volumes with the same configuration.

HPE OneView can configure Fibre Channel fabric attach (SAN switch), Fibre Channel direct attach (flat SAN) or Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) SAN data paths by attaching volumes to servers. Fibre Channel SANs are unmanaged, monitored, or managed with auto-zoning by adding the SAN managers that interact with the SANs.

Storage systems are associated to the networks and added to the appliance. Storage pools are added to the storage systems, and storage volumes are added to storage pools. The storage volumes can then be attached to server profiles.

Supported storage automation features

Automated storage provisioning

When you import supported storage systems and existing storage pools, HPE OneView can quickly create volumes.

Automatic SAN zoning

HPE OneView automatically manages SAN zoning of server profile volume attachments.

Automatic port group assignment

Ports for volume attachments are derived from the port group with the least number of profiles. This provides additional redundancy and load balancing for data traffic.

Storage integration through server profiles

Create and make new private volumes accessible to the server hardware by adding volume attachments to the server profile.

Make existing private or shared volumes accessible to server hardware by adding volume attachments to the server profile.

HPE OneView tracks the connection status between server profiles and SANs.

A boot from SAN (BFS) configuration, specified in a server profile or server profile template, enables the primary/secondary assignment and storage system target port selection to be load balanced uniformly over SANs and storage system targets.

Volume management

You can use HPE OneView to manage the full life cycle of your volumes. You can add existing volumes, create volumes, grow volumes, configure the generation of snapshots, and remove or delete volumes using HPE OneView.

You can use volume templates to define a standard configuration for storage volumes. Volume templates also enable you to choose which configuration settings are locked, making them unable to be changed on volumes created from the volume template.

Volume settings can be managed in volume templates, volumes, server profiles, and server profile templates.

With HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage and HPE Primera, you can also create volume snapshots, create a volume from a snapshot, and revert a volume to a snapshot using HPE OneView.

Zoning policies

HPE OneView enables you to set a zoning policy for your managed SANs. You can choose single initiator/all targets, single initiator/single storage system, or single initiator/single target.

Zone naming and aliases

HPE OneView uses rules-based zone naming to give you full control of your zone names. You can use zone naming to incorporate your current naming structure, which HPE OneView uses during the automated zoning process.

HPE OneView enables you to create aliases for initiators, targets, and target groups in place of their WWPNs.