HP Insight Orchestration 6.0 User Guide

event. You can use Workflow integration or the Insight Orchestration console interface to signal completion
of a manual task.
The manual tasks are associated with paused states in the Insight Orchestration automation and include:
• Boot disk allocation When LUNs with the required attributes are not available for a Create Service
or Add servers to group operation, disk allocation is blocked and the Insight Orchestration
administrator is notified.
The operation pauses until the Insight Orchestration administrator:
• Works with a SAN administrator to create the storage.
• Defines the storage in HP Insight Dynamics Logical Server Management.
• Continues the operation.
When the operation continues, Insight Orchestration reattempts to allocate the resources. Success
depends on the availability of unused boot LUNs.
• Approval After resources are reserved, the Create Service, Add servers to group, Add data disk
to group, and Change Lease Period (extend only) operations pause for Insight Orchestration
administrator approval. The Insight Orchestration administrator can approve or reject the request. If
the request is approved, the request continues into provisioning.
NOTE: Administrator submitted requests do not require approval.
• Manual operating system deployment A service template typically assigns a server deployment or
virtual machine software to a group of servers, however it is possible (though not typical) to define a
service template without assigning server deployment or virtual machine software to a group of servers.
In this case, the Create Service and Add servers to group operations pause to allow the Insight
Orchestration administrator to deploy the operating system manually.
• Data disk allocation When LUNs with the required attributes are not available for a Create Service,
Add servers to group, or Add data disk to group operation, disk allocation is blocked and the
Insight Orchestration administrator is notified.
The Insight Orchestration administrator:
• Works with a SAN administrator to create the storage.
• Defines the storage in HP Insight Dynamics Logical Server Management.
• Continues the operation.
When the operation continues, Insight Orchestration reattempts to allocate the resources.
This pause is always necessary when Insight Orchestration is configured to perform manual storage
provisioning and data disks are defined in the service template. It may or may not be necessary when
Multi-initiator NPIV storage features are enabled.
• Add data disk to group operation The Add data disk to group operation adds private or shared
data disks to an existing infrastructure service.
Insight Orchestration provisions and allocates the storage to their attached servers. When executing
this operation, Insight Orchestration:
• Validates the request
• Allocates the data disks
• Obtains approval
• Power down servers
• Makes the new disk visible to the servers
• Powers up the servers
• Executes custom actions
• Sends notifications
• Data disk scrubbing If a Create Service operation uses manual operating system deployment, the
corresponding Delete service operation requires disks to be scrubbed manually. The Insight Orchestration
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