HP Matrix Operating Environment Software User Manual

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NOTE:

Whenever a request that was paused for manual storage provisioning is continued,

Insight Orchestration will re-enter the reservation algorithm, applying the same logic to satisfy
both the boot and data disk requirements for the logical server.

Using the pattern above, the following priority is observed when trying to satisfy the storage
requirements:

Try: “Static” SAN volume automation through Flex-FC

Fall back to: “Dynamic” SAN volume automation via LUN masking

Fall back to: Manual storage provisioning

The storage pool entries used for the preceding algorithm are defined with Virtualization Manager
using the logical server storage pool interface. Storage pool entries can be defined and fulfilled
by a storage administrator providing appropriate details once they have created, presented, and
zoned the SAN storage volumes. Alternatively, HP provides a solution, Storage Provisioning
Manager, that enables the storage administrator to define a catalog of pre-presented storage.
Storage pool entries can be matched against catalog entries without requiring human intervention,
or requests can be viewed in the SPM interface and manually fulfilled. If you use “Dynamic”
SAN volume allocation automation, you must ensure the authorizations for the SPM catalog
entries allow LUN masking and hostmode changes.

Configuring Storage Provisioning Manager (SPM) in Virtualization Manager

In order to make use of “Dynamic” SAN volume automation via LUN masking, it is necessary
to configure SPM for access to one more arrays. Browse to the following URL on the CMS:
https://:8001

Select Arrays from the tree view on the left hand side, and the New Array task wizard.

Configuration