HP Matrix Operating Environment 7.2 Update 1 Infrastructure Orchestration User Guide

Accessing the infrastructure orchestration self service portal.....................................................93
Self service portal interface overview....................................................................................93
4 Matrix infrastructure orchestration provisioning and allocation........................95
Matrix infrastructure orchestration lifecycle operations..................................................................95
Create service operation.....................................................................................................95
Delete service operation.....................................................................................................96
Importing an existing server as a service...............................................................................96
Add server to group operation.............................................................................................98
Remove servers from group operation...................................................................................99
Add data disk to group operation........................................................................................99
Activate servers in group operation....................................................................................100
Deactivate servers in group operation.................................................................................101
Power on servers..............................................................................................................101
Power off servers..............................................................................................................101
Power cycle servers..........................................................................................................102
Change lease operation...................................................................................................102
Edit virtual servers operation..............................................................................................103
Managing floating IP addresses.........................................................................................104
Managing server snapshots...............................................................................................105
Attaching physical disks to virtual servers............................................................................106
Provisioning physical servers using local disk ......................................................................106
Allocating servers to a VM Host.........................................................................................106
Allocating storage to virtual machines................................................................................107
Excluding disks on a VM Host from the storage pool........................................................108
Manual processes within the lifecycle operations..................................................................109
Creating infrastructure orchestration templates..........................................................................110
Creating a template with a physical ProLiant or Integrity server..............................................110
Creating a template with a physical VM Host or ESXi VM cluster............................................117
Creating a template with a ProLiant or Integrity virtual machine..............................................118
Creating a template to provision at a cloud service provider.......................................................124
Setting user-defined properties................................................................................................124
Enabling custom host names..................................................................................................124
Creating a service request.....................................................................................................125
Customizing template attributes when a service is created.....................................................128
Modifying the create service timeout value..........................................................................131
Approving and automating deployment...................................................................................132
Managing new logical servers...............................................................................................133
Automated allocation............................................................................................................134
Automated operating system provisioning................................................................................135
Deploying an operating system to multi-path storage.................................................................136
Assigning and retrieving cost and billing information (chargeback)..............................................136
Specifying fixed costs for templates and services .................................................................137
Specifying per-unit costs for resources.................................................................................138
Specifying costs for services deployed to public cloud providers........................................139
Specifying a billing code for services..................................................................................139
Specifying a global cost unit for all templates .....................................................................140
Chargeback metrics collected and reported ............................................................................141
Chargeback metrics collected after an upgrade from a version older than Matrix OE 7.1...........141
Using the CLI to retrieve chargeback data................................................................................141
5 Matrix infrastructure orchestration storage management...............................144
Static SAN volume automation through multi-initiator NPIV.........................................................146
Dynamic SAN volume automation...........................................................................................146
Manual storage provisioning..................................................................................................147
Manually creating SAN-backed storage in Matrix OE visualization.........................................148
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