HP Matrix Operating Environment 7.3 Update 1 Getting Started Guide

For information about what is covered in the limited operations orchestration license, see “HP
Operations Orchestration limited license” (page 22).
For more information about Matrix infrastructure orchestration, see the list of documents under
“Related information” (page 44).
For information on provisioning resources to a public cloud service in Matrix infrastructure
orchestration and the managed instance license that is required, see “Matrix OE public cloud
managed instance licenses” (page 24).
HP Matrix Operating Environment recovery management
Matrix recovery management provides simplified disaster recovery of logical servers and Matrix
infrastructure orchestration services. With a mouse click, you can transfer application environments
running on HP BladeSystems or on virtual machines to a remote recovery site. Logical servers and
Matrix infrastructure orchestration services (IO services) that are included in a Matrix recovery
management configuration are referred to as DR Protected logical servers and IO services.
A Matrix recovery management configuration consists of two sites, each managed by the HP Matrix
Operating Environment The site where the CMS you are logged into is located is referred to as
the Local Site, and the other site in the Matrix recovery management configuration is referred to
as the Remote Site . Matrix recovery management pairs symmetrically configured logical servers
or IO services across the two sites. One logical server or IO service in the pair is activated at one
site, while the other ( peer logical server or IO service) is deactivated at the other site. The boot
images of these DR Protected logical servers and IO services, including applications code and
data, reside on disk array volumes. The source volumes at the site where one of the logical servers
or IO services in the pair is activated are replicated at the other site where its peer logical server
or IO service is deactivated.
These volumes are part of a Storage Replication Group that uses storage array supported replication.
One or more logical servers or IO services can be associated with a single Storage Replication
Group – this is referred to as a Recovery Group
Recovery Groups can be failed over from one site to the other site in a Matrix recovery management
configuration. For example, if a disaster occurs at the Local Site, the administrator at the Remote
site can trigger a failover for all the Recovery Groups that were activated at the Local Site by
activating them at the Remote site. This prepares the storage associated with the deactivated DR
Protected logical servers and IO services at the Remote site for read-write access, and activates
those logical servers and IO services.
Matrix recovery management is only supported on a CMS running Microsoft Windows.
For more information, see the HP Matrix Operating Environment Recovery Management User Guide
available at http://www.hp.com/go/matrixoe/docs.
HP Storage Provisioning Manager
HP Storage Provisioning Manager (SPM) is a software tool that provides a service-centric
management interface to storage, allowing storage requests to be fulfilled with available storage
services from a storage catalog. It securely automates storage management tasks alongside the
Matrix OE visualization software. After storage policies and storage resources are input to the
storage catalog using the SPM user interface, you can use the Matrix OE logical server management
to request and have storage set up to meet server needs.
For more information, see the HP Storage Provisioning Manager (SPM) User Guide, and the Faster
storage provisioning in an HP BladeSystem Matrix and Insight Dynamics environment white paper
available at http://www.hp.com/go/matrixoe/docs.
Application Discovery
Application Discovery helps you identify and learn about the applications and processes running
in your data center or computing network.
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