The correct sequence starts with the HPE Synergy Composer (the management brain), ensuring it can orchestrate the subsequent updates. Using it to update the Frame Link Modules and Image Streamer establishes a stable management and imaging foundation. Finally, applying a firmware baseline to compute modules through OneView ensures consistency and leverages the automated, profile-aware update process, which is a core best practice for HPE Synergy.

Logical Enclosures are the fundamental construct for partitioning a physical Synergy frame into secure, logically isolated management domains. Each Logical Enclosure can have its own dedicated network sets (uplink sets) and storage settings, effectively creating separate environments for dev, test, and prod within the same hardware frame, which aligns perfectly with the requirement.

HPE OneView caches hardware state data. After a physical component replacement, a manual refresh of the specific hardware (the compute module) is required to force OneView to poll the hardware again and update its status with the new, operational PSU. This is a standard operational procedure and is more targeted and efficient than the other, more disruptive options.

In HPE Synergy and OneView, the Connection ID is a unique identifier for a network connection within a logical enclosure. If a server profile template specifies a Connection ID that is already assigned to an existing, active connection from another profile, the deployment will fail due to this conflict. The solution is to use an unused Connection ID or adjust the template.

The correct resources are a Server Profile Template (which defines the hardware – like boot from HPE Image Streamer) and an OS Build Plan. The OS Build Plan is the object in OneView that contains the instructions and reference to the actual OS artifact (the golden image) stored on the Image Streamer. Linking the two allows for automated, consistent deployment of both hardware settings and the specific OS image.

An Uplink Set is a logical grouping of physical uplink ports on a Logical Interconnect (like a Virtual Connect module). Its primary purpose is to apply a common network configuration (like network VLANs and trunking mode) to that group of ports, simplifying how external networks are made available to the internal server networks within the Synergy frame.

HPE InfoSight for HPE Synergy is the cloud-based AI-driven platform that ingests telemetry data from HPE OneView. It provides predictive analytics, global knowledge correlation, and recommendations for risk, health, and efficiency, moving beyond simple monitoring to proactive management and support.

The primary benefit of template consistency is change management. When server profiles are kept consistent with their source template, administrators can update the single template (e.g., changing a boot setting or adding a network) and then easily propagate that change to all servers using profiles based on that template, ensuring standardization and drastically simplifying large-scale updates.

For true high availability, the HPE Synergy Composer and Image Streamer should be deployed as a clustered pair. This is typically done using two physical appliances or two virtual appliances. Critically, they should be deployed *outside* the frame they manage. This ensures that a failure or maintenance event on the physical frame does not take down the management cluster that is needed to recover it.

The correct sequence starts with the HPE Synergy Composer (the management brain), ensuring it can orchestrate the subsequent updates. Using it to update the Frame Link Modules and Image Streamer establishes a stable management and imaging foundation. Finally, applying a firmware baseline to compute modules through OneView ensures consistency and leverages the automated, profile-aware update process, which is a core best practice for HPE Synergy.0