HP Matrix Operating Environment Software - Manual (Page 5)

Matrix OE infrastructure orchestration self service portal...............................................................87
Accessing the infrastructure orchestration self service portal.....................................................87
Self service portal interface overview....................................................................................88
4 Matrix infrastructure orchestration provisioning and allocation........................90
Matrix infrastructure orchestration lifecycle operations..................................................................90
Create service operation.....................................................................................................90
Delete service operation.....................................................................................................91
Add server to group operation.............................................................................................91
Remove servers from group operation...................................................................................92
Add data disk to group operation........................................................................................93
Activate servers in group operation......................................................................................93
Deactivate servers in group operation...................................................................................94
Power on servers................................................................................................................94
Power off servers................................................................................................................95
Power cycle servers............................................................................................................95
Change lease operation.....................................................................................................95
Edit virtual servers operation................................................................................................96
Provisioning physical servers using local disk ........................................................................97
Allocating servers to a VM Host...........................................................................................97
Allocating storage to virtual machines..................................................................................98
Excluding disks on a VM Host from the storage pool..........................................................99
Manual processes within the lifecycle operations..................................................................100
Creating infrastructure orchestration templates..........................................................................101
Creating a template with a physical ProLiant or Integrity server..............................................101
Creating a template with a physical VM Host or ESXi VM cluster............................................108
Creating a template with a ProLiant or Integrity virtual machine..............................................108
Creating a template to provision at a cloud service provider.......................................................114
Creating a service request.....................................................................................................114
Customizing template attributes when a service is created.....................................................117
Modifying the create service timeout value..........................................................................120
Approving and automating deployment...................................................................................120
Managing new logical servers...............................................................................................122
Automated allocation............................................................................................................123
Automated operating system provisioning................................................................................124
Deploying an operating system to multi-path storage.................................................................125
Assigning and retrieving cost and billing information (chargeback)..............................................125
Specifying fixed costs for templates and services .................................................................126
Specifying per-unit costs for resources.................................................................................126
Specifying costs for services deployed to public cloud providers........................................128
Specifying a billing code for services..................................................................................128
Specifying a global cost unit for all templates .....................................................................129
Chargeback metrics collected and reported ............................................................................129
Chargeback metrics collected after an upgrade...................................................................130
Using API extensions to retrieve chargeback data......................................................................130
Using the CLI to retrieve chargeback data................................................................................133
5 Matrix infrastructure orchestration storage management...............................135
Static SAN volume automation through multi-initiator NPIV.........................................................136
Dynamic SAN volume automation...........................................................................................137
Manual storage provisioning..................................................................................................138
Manually creating SAN-backed storage in Matrix OE visualization.........................................138
Predefining storage pool entries in Matrix OE visualization....................................................140
Creating storage tags.......................................................................................................141
Populating the Storage Provisioning Manager catalog...............................................................142
Enabling on-demand storage provisioning in SPM................................................................144
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