# HPE Bare Metal (BMaaS)

HPE Bare-Metal-as-a-Service (BMaaS) for Morpheus Enterprise extends Morpheus hybrid cloud management capabilities to HPE ProLiant physical servers. This integration allows the Morpheus platform to discover, provision, and manage these servers as first-class resources. Additionally, HPE BMaaS Cloud integrates HPE ProLiant bare-metal infrastructure into cloud environments to enable cloud-based provisioning and lifecycle management.

HPE BMaaS manages the end-to-end server lifecycle, including hardware discovery, bare-metal provisioning, operating system deployment, monitoring, and metering. The Morpheus interface centrally orchestrates these tasks. This unified approach enables organizations to manage physical infrastructure, virtual machines, and cloud resources using consistent workflows, policies, and governance controls.

HPE BMaaS Cloud provides the following key capabilities:

- **Automated Server Discovery**: Automatically imports and discovers HPE ProLiant servers.
- **Bare-Metal Provisioning**: Provisions hardware using custom or pre-configured OS images.
- **Comprehensive OS Deployment**: Deploys Windows and Linux with unattended installations and customizable boot parameters.
- **Lifecycle Management**: Manages firmware and drivers using the HPE Service Pack for ProLiant (SPP).
- **Flexible Networking**: Supports both unmanaged and managed network integrations.
- **Metering and Billing**: Maps discovered hardware to service plans to align metering with billing.
- **Logical Organization**: Organizes resources into Bare Metal Clouds and Resource Pools to support multi-site environments and scalable infrastructure segmentation.

HPE BMaaS improves operational visibility and server lifecycle control. It offers a scalable, automated approach to manage physical infrastructure across both greenfield (new) and brownfield (existing) environments.

**Subtopics**  

- **[Supported Software Versions](https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/api/document/sd00007732en_us/render?page=GUID-A1E36C88-9447-4A8E-814F-A3DBB8DD4110.html)**
- **[Key Features](https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/api/document/sd00007732en_us/render?page=GUID-7A6944E8-6B89-48A1-8C76-4D9E21EB5099.html)**
- **[Prerequisites](https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/api/document/sd00007732en_us/render?page=GUID-3535B779-7CDA-4288-A03A-02E0F9552B7B.html)**
- **[Compute Management](https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/api/document/sd00007732en_us/render?page=GUID-65714C62-EFBC-4119-B8C6-1724D2B89FC3.html)**
- **[Firmware and Driver Lifecycle Management](https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/api/document/sd00007732en_us/render?page=GUID-2C06459C-26AA-4AB0-897C-F0EFA3F73923.html)**
- **[Network Management](https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/api/document/sd00007732en_us/render?page=GUID-63E00C75-EF17-4EB1-9569-78FE6A0AADDF.html)**
- **[Storage Management](https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/api/document/sd00007732en_us/render?page=GUID-C3FB4228-B601-4FD3-9802-8D40BEF90787.html)**
- **[Troubleshooting and Diagnostics](https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/api/document/sd00007732en_us/render?page=GUID-A50734F6-41F7-4350-B07E-92C559E94119.html)**
- **[Known Limitations and Operational Considerations](https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/api/document/sd00007732en_us/render?page=GUID-663434D4-E8EB-4468-992C-107B9FD4AC30.html)**
