HP Matrix Operating Environment Software - Manual (Page 127)

When no storage resources are found, the overall request pauses for the administrator to manually
provision the required storage. The administrator is notified by an Operations
Orchestration-generated email message that contains the details of the service being provisioned
and the storage resources that are required. After the administrator has completed the storage
provisioning process, the request is re-activated and allowed to continue.
If the IO administrator submits storage requests to SPM and no candidates are returned, the
unfulfilled requests are visible within SPM and the storage administrator can create appropriate
storage matching the needs (and do appropriate SAN zoning), then fulfill the request within SPM.
If IO cannot find storage for an automatically generated storage pool entry, the storage pool entry
is deleted. The administrator can fulfill the storage manually, or can adjust the storage in SPM by,
for example, putting more volumes in the catalog, importing arrays, or modifying the template to
perform a repeated attempt to create the storage pool entry and fulfill it through SPM.
Manually creating SAN-backed storage in Matrix OE visualization
Matrix infrastructure orchestration fully supports the Flex-FC configuration and defaults to that
configuration for storage.
HP strongly recommends separating the boot disk storage pool entry, private data disk storage
pool entry, and shared data disk storage pool entry. However, if necessary, it is possible to combine
the boot and private data disks in one storage pool entry, but a shared data disk must always be
contained in its own storage pool entry.
To manually create SAN-backed storage pool entries in Matrix OE visualization, perform the
following steps.
1.
Verify that the target enclosures have been successfully discovered by Systems Insight Manager.
2. Create a Virtual Connect domain group that includes the target enclosures in VCEM.
3. Refresh Matrix OE, synchronizing it with VCEM. To refresh Matrix OE:
a.
Using Systems Insight Manager, select Tools
→HP Matrix OE visualization. Then select
Tools
→Logical Servers→Refresh.
The Refresh Server Resource Information page appears.
Manual storage provisioning 127