HP Matrix Operating Environment 7.2 Update 1 Infrastructure Orchestration User Guide

After the SPM catalog has been populated, you can do the following:
• Continue to use pre-provisioned storage (no additional steps are needed)
• Allow infrastructure orchestration to automatically generate storage pool entries (no additional
steps are needed)
• Enable on-demand storage provisioning (see “Enabling on-demand storage provisioning in
SPM” (page 154))
• Predefine storage pool entries using the Matrix OE visualization’s storage pool entry screens
and build one or more storage pool entries that reference the volumes just imported through
SPM (see “Predefining storage pool entries in Matrix OE visualization” (page 149))
Enabling on-demand storage provisioning in SPM
There are two ways to enable on-demand provisioning:
• In the HP Matrix Default Storage Template. On-demand provisioning will apply to all requests
from logical server management and those from IO that manually specify logical disk
information, and those for which the HP Matrix Default Storage Template was chosen. Enabling
on-demand provisioning is typically done in conjunction with a capacity constraint (for example,
no more than 256 GB) and that constraint applies to all requests using the default template.
This allows the constraint to be applied to only on-demand provisioned volumes and not
pre-provisioned volumes.
• By creating a new template and enabling on-demand provisioning for that new template (with
a capacity constraint). On-demand provisioning is used for those IO service templates that
select this storage template.
IMPORTANT: Use caution when making changes to the default Matrix template because those
changes impact all such requests. For example, if you were to set a maximum size of 100 GB for
that template, no manual path could fulfill through SPM with a volume larger than 100 GB. Similarly,
if you want to enable on-demand provisioning for all manual requests, you would do so by modifying
the default Matrix template and perhaps impose a capacity constraint such as no on-demand
provisioned volume can exceed 500 GB but pre-provisioned volumes have no size limitations.
To enable on-demand storage provisioning:
1. Log in to Storage Provisioning Manager. You must be a storage administrator to enable
on-demand storage provisioning.
To start SPM, open an internet browser to https://localhost:8000, where “localhost” is the
name of your CMS.
154 Matrix infrastructure orchestration storage management