Enclosures resource associations

An enclosure is a physical structure with device bays supporting server, networking, and storage building blocks. These building blocks share the enclosure's common power, cooling, and management infrastructure.

The enclosure provides the hardware connections between the interconnect downlinks and the installed servers. The enclosure interconnects provide the physical uplinks to the data center networks.

When you add an enclosure to be managed, HPE OneView discovers and adds all of the components within the enclosure, including servers and interconnects installed within the enclosure.

A logical enclosure is associated with an enclosure group which describes how the physical enclosure is connected to the networks and SAN. An enclosure is associated with an enclosure group through the logical enclosure.

Relationship to other resources

An enclosure resource is associated with the following resources in the resource summary diagram:

UI screens and REST API resources

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REST API resource

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