HP Matrix Operating Environment Software - Manual (Page 3)

Table of Contents
1 Introduction...............................................................................................6
Usage scenarios.....................................................................................................................................6
Automated infrastructure design provisioning and management.....................................................................6
Important terms.......................................................................................................................................7
Insight Orchestration users........................................................................................................................7
Software deployment and service provisioning............................................................................................8
2 Installation.................................................................................................9
Installing Insight Orchestration..................................................................................................................9
Upgrading Insight Orchestration...............................................................................................................9
Uninstalling Insight Orchestration..............................................................................................................9
3 Configuration...........................................................................................10
Configuring Insight Orchestration users in Windows..................................................................................10
Configuring HP Operations Orchestration.................................................................................................10
Licensing Insight Orchestration................................................................................................................11
Configuring your environment for virtual provisioning.................................................................................11
Setting up the virtual machine networks..............................................................................................12
Creating VMM templates..................................................................................................................12
Excluding disks on a VMHost from the storage pool.............................................................................13
Customization requirements...............................................................................................................14
Configuring your environment for physical provisioning..............................................................................14
Verifying VC Domain groups.............................................................................................................15
Configuring Insight Control server deployment.....................................................................................15
Creating server deployment job folders..........................................................................................15
Modifying the Erase ProLiant Hardware job....................................................................................16
Configuring Ignite UX..................................................................................................................20
Configuring HP Server Automation................................................................................................20
Creating SAN-backed storage...........................................................................................................20
Modifying the logical server timeout value................................................................................................22
Configuring Insight Orchestration resources in Systems Insight Manager.......................................................22
Viewing and configuring networks.....................................................................................................23
Verifying Insight Orchestration users...................................................................................................25
Configuring server pools...................................................................................................................25
Configuring Insight Orchestration to list heterogeneous hardware................................................................27
Configuring ESA in Virtualization Manager.........................................................................................28
Using the heterogeneous server reference workflows with Insight Orchestration.........................................28
Configuring Insight Orchestration storage management.........................................................................33
Insight Orchestration approach to storage reservation and allocation......................................................34
Configuring Storage Provisioning Manager (SPM) in Virtualization Manager...........................................35
4 Insight Orchestration provisioning and allocation..........................................41
Insight Orchestration lifecycle operations..................................................................................................41
Create service operation...................................................................................................................41
Delete service operation...................................................................................................................41
Add server to group operation...........................................................................................................42
Add data disk to group operation......................................................................................................43
Deactivate servers in group operation.................................................................................................43
Activate servers in group operation....................................................................................................43
Change lease operation...................................................................................................................44
Manual processes within the lifecycle operations..................................................................................44
Automated allocation............................................................................................................................46
Automated operating system provisioning.................................................................................................46
Deploying an operating system to multi-path storage..................................................................................47
Customizable allocation process ............................................................................................................47
Policy configuration file.....................................................................................................................47
Rule file..........................................................................................................................................48
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