HPE OneView provides a unified API that enables infrastructure-as-code, allowing for the automated provisioning and lifecycle management of compute, storage, and networking resources. This is crucial for deploying and scaling third-party container platforms like Kubernetes or Red Hat OpenShift.

The HPE iLO RESTful API, which is based on the Redfish standard, offers direct, agentless, and secure programmatic control over individual HPE servers. This allows for the automation of bare-metal server configuration, firmware updates, and monitoring, which are foundational tasks for preparing nodes for a container cluster.

C. HPE StoreOnce: This is a data protection and backup solution. While it may integrate with container environments for backup, it is not a primary tool for infrastructure automation.

D. VMware Horizon: This is a virtual desktop and application platform developed by VMware, not an HPE solution for container automation.

1. HPE White Paper: Automating and orchestrating HPE infrastructure at scale with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. (Document ID: a00098169enw

Published: April 2020).

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"HPE and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform" section: "The HPE OneView and HPE iLO Ansible modules enable IT to treat ‘infrastructure as code’ to automate the provisioning of bare-metal infrastructure for virtualization

containers (for example

Red Hat OpenShift)

and enterprise workloads." This statement directly supports that both HPE OneView and HPE iLO are used for API-driven automation for container platforms.

2. HPE Developer Portal: HPE OneView API.

Overview Section: "HPE OneView allows you to control your infrastructure programmatically with a single

unified API... It is the foundation for a software-defined infrastructure and the enabler for infrastructure-as-code." This confirms OneView's role as the primary API for infrastructure automation. The portal provides extensive documentation on integrating with tools used for container orchestration.

3. HPE Developer Portal: iLO RESTful API.

Overview Section: "The iLO RESTful API is a management interface that server management tools can use to perform server configuration

inventory

and monitoring tasks... The iLO RESTful API is Redfish API conformant." This establishes the iLO API as the tool for programmatic

bare-metal server automation

a prerequisite for deploying container hosts.