Planning to use hypervisor cluster profiles

HPE OneView integrates with the external hypervisor manager software to manage a cluster of hypervisors that are running on the managed server hardware. Managing the cluster from HPE OneView helps you to keep the configurations on the hypervisors consistent with the configurations in the managed server nodes. It also helps you to remediate any inconsistencies reported non-disruptively.

You can deploy or import a hypervisor cluster and manage it using a hypervisor cluster profile. By using an OS deployment plan in the hypervisor cluster profile, you can deploy and manage a hypervisor cluster. The hypervisor cluster profile also allows you to import and manage a hypervisor cluster deployed using tools external to HPE OneView.

Benefits of managing the hypervisor cluster using hypervisor cluster profile

The benefits of managing the hypervisor cluster using a hypervisor cluster profile follow.

• Simplifies the workflow for composing your hypervisor cluster infrastructure.

• Simplifies the definition of template configurations for both physical server and hypervisor host.

• Orchestrates consistent configuration from server nodes to hypervisors in the cluster for all cluster members.

• Growing or shrinking a cluster using simple operations on the hypervisor cluster profile having OS deployment plan configured. For example, you can easily grow the cluster by just adding a server hardware to the hypervisor cluster profile.

• Consistency checks and reporting of any deviations in configurations of the server hardware and hypervisor from the template configurations.

• Updating configurations in the hypervisor cluster nondisruptively.

• Nondisruptive firmware updates on the server nodes while updating firmware from logical enclosure.

Planning considerations for using hypervisor cluster profile

The following topics help you understand the features of hypervisor cluster profile and considerations for using it.