HP Insight Orchestration 6.3 User Guide

Configuring Insight Orchestration storage management...........................................................46
Insight Orchestration approach to storage reservation and allocation........................................48
Configuring Storage Provisioning Manager (SPM) in Virtualization Manager.............................48
4 Insight Orchestration provisioning and allocation..........................................54
Insight Orchestration lifecycle operations...................................................................................54
Create service operation.....................................................................................................54
Delete service operation.....................................................................................................55
Add server to group operation.............................................................................................55
Add data disk to group operation........................................................................................56
Deactivate servers in group operation...................................................................................57
Activate servers in group operation......................................................................................57
Change lease operation.....................................................................................................57
Manual processes within the lifecycle operations....................................................................58
Automated allocation..............................................................................................................60
Automated operating system provisioning..................................................................................60
Deploying an operating system to multi-path storage...................................................................61
Customizable allocation process ..............................................................................................61
Policy configuration file.......................................................................................................61
Rule file............................................................................................................................62
Customizing existing rules...................................................................................................63
Writing a new rule file........................................................................................................64
Deploying rules.................................................................................................................65
Assigning cost and billing information.......................................................................................65
Billing code for services......................................................................................................65
Fixed cost for templates and services ...................................................................................66
Global cost unit for all templates .........................................................................................68
5 Using Insight Orchestration applications......................................................69
Overview..............................................................................................................................69
Insight Orchestration Designer..................................................................................................69
About Designer.................................................................................................................69
Accessing Designer............................................................................................................69
Interface overview..............................................................................................................70
Insight Orchestration Console...................................................................................................70
Overview..........................................................................................................................70
Accessing the console........................................................................................................71
Interface overview..............................................................................................................72
Create service...................................................................................................................73
Console access to deployed servers.....................................................................................73
Limitations....................................................................................................................73
Configuration...........................................................................................................74
Support...................................................................................................................74
Insight Orchestration Self Service Portal ....................................................................................74
Overview..........................................................................................................................74
Accessing the Self Service Portal..........................................................................................74
Interface overview..............................................................................................................75
6 Using Operations Orchestration.................................................................77
Overview..............................................................................................................................77
Accessing Operations Orchestration..........................................................................................77
Downloading, installing, and configuring a remote instance of Operations Orchestration Studio.......77
Overview..........................................................................................................................77
Downloading Operations Orchestration Studio..................................................................77
Installing a remote instance of Operations Orchestration Studio...........................................78
Configuring Operations Orchestration Studio on a remote computer....................................79
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