HP Matrix Operating Environment 7.2 Update 1 Infrastructure Orchestration User Guide

NOTE: Because the volume.exclusion.list values are treated as regular expressions,
some characters are interpreted to have special meaning, for example, backslash (\), question
mark (?), and brackets {}. To indicate that these characters should be treated as regular characters,
they need to be escaped with a backslash. Because a backslash is a special character in the
property file syntax, it has to be escaped as well.
For example, to exclude the volumes C:;Q:;\\?\Volume{1868cf92}, add the following line
to volume.exclusion.list:
volume.exclusion.list=C:;Q:;\\\\\\\\\\?\\\\Volume\\{1868cf92\\}
Manual processes within the lifecycle operations
The execution of the infrastructure orchestration lifecycle operations might require the infrastructure
orchestration administrator to perform manual tasks. If defined, infrastructure orchestration invokes
an Operations Orchestration workflow to initiate, remind, or otherwise facilitate a manual task
and generates a Systems Insight Manager event. Use workflow integration or the infrastructure
orchestration console interface to signal completion of a manual task.
The manual tasks are associated with paused states in the infrastructure 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 infrastructure orchestration administrator
is notified.
The operation pauses until the infrastructure orchestration administrator:
◦ Works with a SAN administrator to create the storage.
◦ Defines the storage in HP Matrix OE logical server management.
◦ Continues the operation.
When the operation continues, infrastructure 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 infrastructure orchestration
administrator approval. The infrastructure 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 infrastructure
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 infrastructure
orchestration administrator is notified.
The infrastructure orchestration administrator:
Matrix infrastructure orchestration lifecycle operations 109