HP Matrix Operating Environment Software - Manual (Page 92)

The following sections describe the Extensible Server and Storage Adapter (ESA) component of
the Insight Dynamics solution, configuration steps, and how the server and storage workflows can
be customized.
Extensible Server & Storage Adapter
Extensible Server & Storage Adapter (ESA) provides storage provisioning and server operations
for logical servers and HP Insight Orchestration. Insight Dynamics includes reference implementations
which can be customized for specific environments.
Operations Orchestration, as used in ESA, is in an embedded form called the OO engine. The
OO engine defines and utilizes the work flows for extending the storage and servers features of
Insight software. OO is a system for creating and using actions in structured sequences (ops flows)
that maintain, troubleshoot, repair, and provision the IT resources of the datacenter.
For ESA to invoke OO workflows (for either server or storage workflows), it is necessary to configure
the OO credentials. For information about configuring ESA, see
“Configuring Extensible Server &
Storage Adapter (ESA)” (page 59) .
For more information about HP Operations Orchestration and ESA, see the Server and Storage
Workflows for HP Insight Dynamics white paper at
www.hp.com/go/insightdynamics/docs .
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