HP Insight Orchestration 6.0 User Guide

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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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