HP Insight Orchestration 6.3 User Guide

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Contents

1 Introduction...............................................................................................6

Usage scenarios.......................................................................................................................6

Automated infrastructure design provisioning and management......................................................6

Insight Orchestration and the HP Insight Dynamics solution.............................................................7

Insight Orchestration users and groups........................................................................................7

Software deployment and service provisioning..............................................................................8

API and CLI support..................................................................................................................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

Classes of Insight Orchestration users and groups...................................................................10

Removing Windows users having current permissions to use IO resources..................................10

Configuring a federated CMS environment.................................................................................11

Manually enabling federated CMS in new installations...........................................................11

Configuring a federation.....................................................................................................12

Configuring HP Operations Orchestration..................................................................................13

Licensing Insight Orchestration..................................................................................................15

Configuring deployment servers................................................................................................16

Discovering deployment servers...........................................................................................16

Registering deployment servers............................................................................................16

Configuring Insight Control server deployment.......................................................................16

Creating server deployment job folders............................................................................16

Modifying the Erase ProLiant Hardware job......................................................................17

Configuring Ignite-UX....................................................................................................23

Integrity VM Guest Kit installation...............................................................................24

Configuring HP Server Automation.......................................................................................24

Configuring an environment for virtual provisioning.....................................................................24

Setting up virtual machine networks......................................................................................25

Setting up an ESX virtual machine network.......................................................................25

Setting up an Integrity virtual machine network.................................................................25

Setting up a Hyper-V virtual machine network...................................................................25

Using VLAN tags in a Hyper-V VM network.................................................................26

Creating Insight Control virtual machine management (VMM) templates....................................27

Allocating storage to newly provisioned virtual machines........................................................28

Excluding disks on a VM host from the storage pool..........................................................29

Using sysprep to customize Windows systems........................................................................29

Configuring an environment for physical provisioning..................................................................30

Verifying VC Domain groups...............................................................................................30

Creating SAN-backed storage.............................................................................................31

Modifying the logical server timeout value.................................................................................33

Configuring Insight Orchestration resources in Systems Insight Manager.........................................34

Viewing and configuring networks.......................................................................................34

Verifying Insight Orchestration users and groups....................................................................37

Configuring server pools.....................................................................................................37

Configuring Insight Orchestration to list heterogeneous hardware..................................................40

Configuring ESA password in Virtualization Manager.............................................................41

Using the heterogeneous server reference workflows with Insight Orchestration...........................41

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