Composable Infrastructure is the core architectural principle of HPE Synergy. It abstracts physical resources (compute, storage, fabric) into fluid pools that can be dynamically composed and recomposed into logical infrastructure on-demand. This directly enables the agility and high utilization the customer seeks, supporting both traditional and cloud-native workloads. While the other options are components or tools within Synergy, they serve the broader Composable Infrastructure model.

A key benefit of redundant power supplies is to maintain operations while a degraded component is addressed. Since the frame is operating normally, the redundancy is fulfilling its purpose. The best practice is to acknowledge the alert to prevent notification fatigue, then plan a proactive, non-disruptive replacement during a scheduled maintenance window. Immediate deactivation removes redundancy unnecessarily, firmware updates are not a standard fix for hardware degradation, and swapping components is a troubleshooting step for intermittent issues, not a stated degradation.

Server Profile Templates are a core efficiency feature of HPE Synergy. They allow you to define a complete, consistent configuration blueprint—including BIOS, firmware, local storage (via Logical JBODs or RAID), and network connections (via connections and networks)—once. When a new instance is needed, you instantiate a server profile from the template, which applies the entire configuration automatically to composed hardware. This is far more efficient than manual configuration (option 1) or one-off profiles (option 2), and more reliable and integrated than post-OS scripts (option 4).

HPE Synergy is designed for hybrid infrastructure. The Frame Link Module (FLM) provides native, high-bandwidth Fibre Channel or FCoE connectivity to external SANs, preserving existing investments and meeting the storage team’s requirement. Simultaneously, local storage options—either internal drives in compute modules or shared storage via the D3940 Storage Module—can be configured for low-latency workloads like VM boot, satisfying the applications team. This hybrid model offers flexibility. Options 1 and 4 don’t leverage the existing SAN, and option 3 (StoreVirtual VSA) introduces software-defined overhead not ideal for low-latency boot volumes.

This is a fundamental distinction in HPE Synergy management. An **Enclosure Group** is a template or blueprint. It defines the network configuration (uplink sets, network sets, interconnect bay mappings) and other settings that will be applied to one or more physical Synergy frames. A **Logical Enclosure**, on the other hand, is the active management entity created when you assign an Enclosure Group to a physical frame. It represents the managed frame itself, containing its firmware baselines, state, and composed resources.

HPE’s recommended firmware update order for Synergy starts with the management layer. The HPE OneView Appliances should be updated first because the newer version of OneView contains the support matrices, drivers, and logic needed to safely update the downstream physical infrastructure (interconnects, frames, compute, storage). Updating interconnects or compute modules with an older version of OneView could lead to compatibility issues or an inability to manage the new firmware versions.

Within a Synergy compute module, the primary method to combine the capacity of multiple physical drives for a larger volume is through a hardware RAID configuration, such as RAID 0 (striping for performance and capacity) or RAID 1 (mirroring). This is configured within the server profile in HPE OneView. A Logical JBOD (option 2) is a HPE OneView abstraction that groups *entire physical drives* to be presented as individual JBODs to the OS, not a method to combine them into a single volume. While a 4TB SSD (option 1) might exist, it’s less common and potentially more expensive than combining smaller drives via RAID.

In HPE Synergy, network connectivity is physically provisioned via the interconnect modules. A connection in a profile consumes a virtual connect port (network) on an interconnect. If the associated network (e.g., VLAN 100) on the target interconnect module has all its physical uplink ports assigned or saturated, there are no resources left to satisfy the new connection request, leading to this error. The error is related to physical interconnect port capacity, not IP address availability (managed by DHCP, not OneView), memory, or abstract bandwidth settings.

HPE Image Streamer (formerly part of HPE OneView) is the OS deployment and lifecycle management engine for HPE Synergy. Its key function is to separate OS and software deployment from hardware provisioning. While a server profile configures the hardware (BIOS, RAID, networking), Image Streamer uses Golden Images (captured OS/build states) to rapidly and consistently deploy the software layer to the composed server over the network. This enables true stateless computing, where hardware and software are managed independently.

Composable Infrastructure is the core architectural principle of HPE Synergy. It abstracts physical resources (compute, storage, fabric) into fluid pools that can be dynamically composed and recomposed into logical infrastructure on-demand. This directly enables the agility and high utilization the customer seeks, supporting both traditional and cloud-native workloads. While the other options are components or tools within Synergy, they serve the broader Composable Infrastructure model.0