multipe OV instances in different regions in one vCenter with vLCM?

[pirx]

I heard now many times that OV is not desigend to work outside a local datacenter.  What options are there with OV? We have hosts and clusters around the world, sometimes just single hosts. I could deploy OV instances at some central locations, but it's not clear to me if I can add them to vLCM and use the OV instance as HSM in my images based on location?

[DanCernese]

Although I don't want to sound like a marketing guy; if your server iLO can connect to HPE's cloud over the internet you should seriously consider researching our HPE GreenLake Compute Ops Management cloud console-- it can do health, monitoring, firmware update, support cases all for remote offices.  It really is quite robust and well designed.  The feature set does not match an on-prem mature solution like HPE OneView yet; but it is definitely worth reading up about.

..and there's a free trial too.  https://www.hpe.com/us/en/hpe-greenlake-compute-ops-management.html

[DanCernese]

...and yes, there is a parallel integration like our vCenter plugin that also works with HPE GreenLake Compute Ops Management.

[pirx]

HPE's marketing guys already tried to sell it. But direct connection of ILOs to the cloud is currently an issue here. And we already spent a lot time in OV. As you do not mention a solution for OV, I assume that there is none?

[DanCernese]

HPE OneView's design center is on-prem within datacenter.  Right, there's no "solution" except that we have countless customers who have taken the risk upon themselves and provide reasonable bandwidth and low-latency links, so it works as if it were the same datacenter without issue.

Latency is the killer; depending on the server generation and other versions anything higher than 30-40ms eventually causes firmware updates to fail.

[pirx]

Too bad, it seems that I can add multipe OV instance in the vLCM HSM section in vSphere client. But before I try this I need to know if this can be used in the images. It's really a pitty that OV does not work in this setup. For getting this to work we would then need differen vCenters + OVs in each region. And we just consolidated 3 vCenters into one.