HP Insight Orchestration 6.3 User Guide

NOTE: In this release, you can view and assign only explicitly named users and groups that are
included in the HPIO_* Windows groups (described in “Classes of Insight Orchestration users and
groups” (page 10)). Users or subgroups within these named groups are not visible, nor can they
be directly assigned to resources.
• Architect
Uses HP Insight Orchestration Designer (a graphical designer) to design and publish
infrastructure service templates which capture the requirements to provision the infrastructure
service. During development and design, the architect specifies attributes for the logical
resources, such as minimum memory required, IP address allocation, and the software required
on the boot disk. The architect can also author and attach Operations Orchestration workflows
to a template to automate additional IT tasks during the provisioning and ongoing management
of the infrastructure service.
• Administrator
Uses HP Insight Orchestration console in Systems Insight Manager to manage the overall
behavior of Insight Orchestration including creating Insight Orchestration server pools,
managing the available networks and software inventory, approving user requests, and
modifying user's infrastructures service as required (for example to migrate logical servers
between server blades to support maintenance activities on the physical environment). An
administrator also performs manual tasks within a semi-automated operation.
• User
Uses the Self Service Portal to create infrastructure services from templates. The user initiates
the creation of a new infrastructure service by selecting a template design, selecting one or
more assigned server pools to use, specifying a lease period, specifying a service name, and
(depending on the template) a hostname completion string. After the infrastructure service is
allocated and provisioned, it is available to the user for the duration of the lease period.
During this time, using the Self Service Portal, the user can update the service (for example,
adding more servers or storage using Insight Orchestration requests).
Software deployment and service provisioning
Insight Orchestration supports a variety of mechanisms for operating system software deployment.
Operating system software can be realized as an image derived from a virtual server, or as
deployment software such as an Insight Control server deployment job, an Ignite-UX job, or an HP
Server Automation job. Each subtype represents an approach for offering selectable software that
can be installed on a physical or virtual server.
To simplify system software deployment, Insight Orchestration utilizes virtual machine templates,
physical server deployment jobs, and Operations Orchestration workflows.
During provisioning, Insight Orchestration executes associated Operations Orchestration workflows
at their respective execution points. After Insight Orchestration processes the request, the resulting
service is maintained on a user-by-user basis with a set of physical and virtual resources that reflects
the original template design. You can modify running infrastructure services many ways, including
adding servers and data disks.
API and CLI support
Insight Orchestration supports an Application Programming Interface and a Command-Line Interface.
For information on using these interfaces, see the HP BladeSystem Matrix/Insight Dynamics
Integration Interfaces white paper at HP Insight Dynamics Information Library.
8 Introduction