HP Insight Orchestration 6.3 User Guide

Deactivate servers in group operation
The Deactivate servers in group operation places the selected servers in standby and removes them
from service. During this operation, Insight Orchestration:
• Validates the request
• Deallocates the servers (server blades)
• Powers off the servers
• Executes custom actions
• Sends notifications
After successfully completing the operation, Insight Orchestration deallocates the physical server
blades, making them available for other uses. Insight Orchestration retains the server profiles, SAN
disks, virtual disks, and powers off the virtual servers.
If the operation fails, Insight Orchestration powers off the servers.
Activate servers in group operation
The Activate servers in group operation restarts the server. During this operation, Insight
Orchestration:
• Validates the request
• Reallocates the servers (server blades)
• Powers on the servers
• Executes custom actions
• Sends notifications
When reallocating a server blade, Insight Orchestration must find a server blade that matches the
original logical server definition, and physical characteristics of the previously allocated server
blade, including processor architecture and model. In addition, the new server blade must have
at least the same number of processors, amount of memory, and processor speed. If Insight
Orchestration cannot find a server blade that meets these requirements, the request fails.
After successfully completing the operation, the physical server blades are allocated and configured
into existing server profiles, physical and virtual servers are powered on, and the servers return to
normal operation.
If the operation fails, the servers are not available to activate.
Change lease operation
The Change Lease Period operation enables you to modify the starting or ending dates of the
service. You can also extend or reduce the lifetime of the service. Change lease tasks include:
• Validating the request for a new lease period
• Modifying servers (server blades or virtual machine hosts) allocation for a new lease period
• Modifying network and IP addresses allocation for a new lease period
• Modifying disk allocation for a new lease period
• Obtaining approval to extend a lease
NOTE: Reducing a lease period does not require approval.
• Executing custom actions
• Sending notifications
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