HP Insight Orchestration 6.0 User Guide

Glossary
administrator A user who manages users, resource pools, and self-service requests through HP Insight
Orchestration console.
approvals A permission given to a user-generated request by an administrator. Approvals occur during the
allocation and provisioning phases of creating or updating a service.
architect A user who creates a multi-server infrastructure template using HP Insight Orchestration Designer
(a graphical designer) and then publishes the template for other users to create infrastructure
services
central
management
server (CMS)
A system in the management domain that executes the HP Systems Insight Manager software. All
central operations within HP Systems Insight Manager are initiated from this system.
CMS See central management server.
command view Software and servers that manage HP Storage Arrays.
CSI See Common Storage Interface.
Designer A web application that enables you to plan and design multi-server, multi-tier infrastructures using
a drag-and-drop interface.
discovery A feature within a management application that finds and identifies network objects. In HP
management applications, discovery finds and identifies all the HP systems within a specified
network range.
Enterprise Virtual
Array (EVA)
An HP storage array product line.
ESA See Extensible Storage and Server Adapter.
ESX VMware's enterprise-level virtualization product.
EVA See Enterprise Virtual Array.
Extensible Storage
and Server
Adapter (ESA)
An HP adapter to connect Insight Orchestration and HP Insight Dynamics to non-HP servers or
third party storage devices.
FC See Fibre Channel.
Fibre Channel (FC) A high speed storage networking standard.
Flex-FC A technique that uses sets of pre-allocated SAN resources to a share storage pool available to
one or many physical servers: N_Port ID Virtualization.
HBA See Host Bus Adapter.
Host Bus Adapter
(HBA)
A circuit board and/or integrated circuit adapter that provides input/output processing and
physical connectivity between a server and a storage device.
HP Insight Rapid
Deployment
software (RDP)
An HP software (operating system and applications) deployment product.
HP SIM See HP Systems Insight Manager.
HP Storage
Provisioning
Manager (SPM)
An HP storage interface to connect Insight Orchestration to HP storage devices.
HP Systems Insight
Manager (HP SIM)
An HP systems and resources monitoring and management product.
IE See Internet Explorer.
infrastructure
service
A running configuration of infrastructure resources that is designed to run a business application
such as a multi-tier web application. Also referred to as a service or service instance.
Insight Control
server deployment
A multi-server deployment tool that enables IT administrators to easily deploy large numbers of
servers in an unattended, automated fashion.
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