HP has updated its IT management portfolio, unveiling HP OneView, a “consumer-inspired” platform for HP’s data center converged solutions. And while the initial solution is designed to manage HP Converged Infrastructure solutions only, HP said OneView would be extended into the HP software portfolio, which would then enable heterogeneous infrastructure support.

HP offered no time frame for the heterogeneous support, so the solution probably doesn’t make sense if you are managing an IT shop with mixed infastructure. But if you manage just HP Converged Infrastructure, OneView is the new top-of-the-line management solution from HP.

HP says the current OneView platform is designed for the series of products within the HP Converged Infrastructure realm including the HP BladeSystem, HP ProLiant Generation 8 (Gen8) and HP ProLiant Generation 7 servers.

HP says that the platform reduces time required for common data center processes such as deployment, updating, migrating and troubleshooting. For instance, the company says that provisioning hypervisors across 16 servers with traditional tools requires two hours and 50 minutes of administrative time, compared to just 14 minutes with HP OneView.

“Social media, the consumerization of IT and changing demographics are altering how work gets done, forcing organizations to address a widening gap between enterprise demands and traditional IT supply,” said Tom Joyce, senior vice president and general manager, Converged Systems, HP. “The current infrastructure management model is stuck in the past and HP OneView is the first step in fundamentally rethinking the entire approach to infrastructure management in the data center.”