HP Matrix Operating Environment 7.2 Update 1 Infrastructure Orchestration User Guide

ESX resource pools and cloud capacity pools
In addition to physical servers and VM Hosts, infrastructure orchestration includes the following
types of provisionable resources:
• ESX resource pools
ESX resource pools are a type of compute resource created using VMware vCenter or the
virtual machine management CLI, and are discovered by infrastructure orchestration. ESX
resource pools are available for infrastructure orchestration to use to provision virtual machines
on a standalone VM Host or in a cluster. They enable a cluster to be divided into logical pools
of memory and CPU resources above the level of individual VM Hosts.
ESX resource pools allow a VM Host or an ESXi cluster to be shared by multiple organizations.
ESX resource pools are displayed in the infrastructure orchestration console Servers tab and
are labeled as “ESX Resource Pools” in the Type column. The parent of an ESX resource pool
is shown in the Servers tab Group column. ESX Resource Pools can be selected when creating
a new pool, and used for capacity assignments to users, groups, and organizations.
Because an ESX resource pool is a compute resource, it must be added to a pool in order to
be used in a provisioning request. A pool containing an ESX resource pool must be
homogeneous and cannot contain any other type of compute resource. A provisioning request
can specify the use of mixed multiple pools, as long as any pool containing an ESX resource
pool is homogeneous.
Virtual machines can be allocated into ESX resource pools. Virtual machines cannot be allocated
to VM Hosts and clusters where the resource pools are defined. However, virtual machines
can be allocated to VM Hosts where resource pools are not defined or are not applicable.
The parent ESX Host (or all VM Hosts in the parent cluster) must be licensed for virtual machine
management and infrastructure orchestration. ESX resource pools that are parented by
unlicensed hosts are ignored.
• Cloud resources
Cloud resources represent resource/capacity offered by another cloud service, such as a
supported CloudSystem bursting service provider, another CloudSystem, or an HP Matrix KVM
Private Cloud.
Cloud resources are manually configured resources, not discovered resources, and require
special configuration for use within infrastructure orchestration.
Because a cloud resource is a compute resource, it must be added to a pool in order to be
used in a provisioning request. A pool containing a cloud resource must be homogeneous
and cannot contain any other type of compute resource. A provisioning request can specify
the use of mixed multiple pools, as long as any pool containing a cloud resource is
homogeneous.
Contact an HP representative for more information, or see the Cloud bursting with HP
CloudSystem Matrix infrastructure orchestration and Configuring cloud bursting with HP
CloudSystem Matrix infrastructure orchestration and Savvis white papers. Both white papers
are available at http://www.hp.com/go/matrixoe.
You can use the Configure KVM cloud pool link on the infrastructure orchestration console
Home tab to assist in configuring capacity pools for an HP Matrix KVM Private Cloud. For
more information, see the HP Matrix 7.2 KVM Private Cloud Getting Started Guide on the
following website:
http://www.hp.com/go/matrixoe/docs
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