HP iLO Restful API Specification

Overview

HP Gen9 Servers running iLO 4 2.00 or later feature a new management interface called the “HP RESTful API.” The HP RESTful API is a RESTful Web Service API served by iLO’s web server. If you are familiar with RESTful APIs, this should tell you much about how the API works. In short, a RESTful API is an application programming interface using the basic HTTP operations GET, PUT, POST, DELETE, and PATCH. Each HTTP operation either submits or returns a “resource” in the form of UTF-8 encoded JSON. Just as a Web application returns HTML to your browser, a REST interface returns data (in the form of JSON) to your client over the same transport (HTTPS).

Key Benefits of the HP RESTful API

This HP RESTful API will become the main management API for iLO 4 based HP Servers. Its feature set will (in time) become larger than the existing ILO XML API (RIBCL) and IPMI interfaces. Using this API you can take full inventory of the server, control power and reset, configure BIOS and iLO 4 settings, fetch event logs as well as many other things.

HP RESTful API Specifications

http://h20564.www2.hp.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=c04423967

Integrating HP Tools with VMWare vCloud Part-I

Integrating HP Service Manger with VMware Private Cloud

 

The VMware vCenter Orchestrator HP Service Manager ITSM Plug-in and HP uCMDB Plugin by Avnet Services bridge the gap between your VMware based virtualization layer and HP IT Service Management by enabling enterprise operational process automation to improveprocess efficiency and reduce manual labor.
Avnet Services’ solution allows enterprises to integrate HP Service Manager Help Desk / Change Management / HP uCMDB applications with VMware vSphere, vOPS, vCenter, vAPPs and vCloud environment using vCO. These products enable vCO workflows to automate otherwise manual ITIL processes and enable process and data integration with HP Service Management Suite. Example use cases include, creating a HP Service Manager Help Desk or Change ticket based on an incident reported from the VMware suite of products, or a HP Service Manager ITSM ticket managing an automation to build, move and manage a new VM or vApp.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Highlights

Enable vCO workflows to automate process and data integration with HP Service Manager ITSM servers.

• Create HP Service Manager help desk ticket / change ticket based on incidents reported from VMware suite.
• Leverage out of the box sample workflows for faster time to market.

Description

Control automation to build, move and manage a new VM or vAPP with HP Service Manager ITSM ticket. Ensure Optimum performance and handling of volume of API based and multithreaded technology.

Source :

https://solutionexchange.vmware.com/store/products/hp-service-manager-plug-in-for-vmware-vcenter-orchestrator#.VJFReHtFyNh

HP Virtualization Performance Viewer

HP Software has recently come out with the next version of HP Virtualization Performance Viewer. With the latest release, vPV has made great strides into performance monitoring of virtualized and cloud environments. Now you can not only troubleshoot performance issues quickly but also discover means to optimize your virtualized environment for greater efficiency, forecast utilization trends of the critical resources and find out the best fit placement for new workloads. With the real time guest OS drill down feature, you can drill down into the virtual machine to find out the application which is causing the bottleneck and obtain fine grain system performance metrics.

Here is a blog that delves deeper into the new features of HP vPV. Feel free to download the product for your evaluation.

This includes:

• Visualize performance and identify hotspots across elements and resources in cloud and virtualized environments
• Quickly troubleshoot problems using workbench workflows and reports
• Right size the virtual environment for optimal performance with the help of placement and optimization functionality
• Drill down and troubleshoot guest OS level problems in real time
• Integrate with HP Cloud Service Automation to see trends and forecast as cloud consumer

Implementing vSphere Metro Storage Cluster using HP LeftHand Multi-Site

Implementing vSphere Metro Storage Cluster using HP LeftHand Multi-Site

KB Article Implementing vSphere Metro Storage Cluster using HP LeftHand Multi-Site

HP LeftHand documentation page.

HP StoreOnce D2D systems integration with VADP

A whitepaper on HP StoreOnce D2D systems integration with Vmware API for Data Protection

Protecting vmware virtual machines with HP Storeonce D2D Systems and the Vmware APIs for Data Protection.pdf 

HP Gen8 Servers NICs & vSphere Compatibility Matrix

Here is the HP Gen8 Servers NICs and vSphere 4.x / 5.x Compatibility Matrix

Make	Model	Ports	Speed	Format	ESXi 4.1	ESXi 4.1 U1	ESXi 4.1 U2	ESXi 5.0	ESXi 5.0 U1
HP	FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 554FLB FlexLOM Adapter	2	10 Gb	Flex-LOM	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
HP	FlexFabric 10Gb 2-Port 554M Adapter	2	10 Gb	Mezzanine	No	No	No	No	No
HP	Flex-10 10Gb 2-Port 530M Adapter	2	10 Gb	Mezzanine	No	No	No	No	No
HP	Flex-10 10Gb 2-Port 552M Adapter	2	10 Gb	Mezzanine	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

HP Proliant Servers and and VMWare vSphere 5 Support Matrix

Helpful links for find HP hardware and VMWare vSphere 5 Support Matrix

HP Proliant DL Servers

HP Proliant Blade (BL) Servers

HP Proliant ML Servers

HP Proliant SL Servers

Note: For detailed information on supported processors for each of these servers, please refer to the VMware Compatibility Guide

HP Service Pack for Proliant

SPP 2012.06.0 (B) was released to SW Depot Yesterday (6/4/2012) and is available from www.hp.com/go/spp/download.  The Release Notes, Server Support Guide and Contents Report are making their way through the system and should be available soon at www.hp.com/go/spp/documentation.

The SPP 2012.06.0 (B) release summary includes

Added support for new HP ProLiant Gen 8 servers

• HP ProLiant BL460c Gen8 Server
• HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8 Server
• HP ProLiant DL360p Gen8 Server
• HP ProLiant DL160 Gen8 Server
• HP ProLiant ML350p Gen8 Server
• HP ProLiant SL250s Gen8 Server
• HP ProLiant SL230s Gen8 Server 
• pdated to HP Smart Update Manager 5.1.0 
•  New reports
• Failed dependency details provides information on all component failed dependencies
• Installed details provides a summary of the installation process
• Report summary page
• Easy to read report format updates for all reports
• Target Firmware Details report allows user to filter components based on component criticality
• Pull from web enhancements
• Added bundle download support from ftp.hp.com 
• Ability to pull latest FC HBA drivers from ftp.hp.com
• New Systems Management Homepage configuration option in Linux environment