HP Matrix Operating Environment 7.2 Update 1 Infrastructure Orchestration User Guide

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Overview
Matrix infrastructure orchestration applications support the roles of architect, service provider
administrator, organization administrator, and user.
• The designer enables an architect to plan and design multi-server, multi-tier infrastructures
using a drag-and-drop interface.
• The console enables a service provider administrator to deploy, manage and monitor the
overall behavior of infrastructure orchestration and its users, templates, services and resources.
• The organization administrator portal enables an organization administrator to control the
organization’s virtual IO system by creating pools, adding users, adding servers and disks to
existing services, submitting, approving, and rejecting requests, and customizing the title and
logo of the organization administrator portal and the self service portal
• The self service portal enables a user to create infrastructure services from published templates.
Matrix OE infrastructure orchestration designer
Matrix OE infrastructure orchestration designer enables an architect to plan and design multi-server,
multi-tier infrastructures using a drag-and-drop interface. The infrastructure can include virtual
servers, physical servers, ESX resource pools, and cloud resources. Matrix infrastructure orchestration
users can provision services using infrastructure orchestration templates.
An architect creates and maintains standardized infrastructure templates, working with the system
administrator to ensure templates are compatible with existing resources and business needs
enabling quick response to changing requirements in the business-defined set of standard templates.
In general, architectural tasks include:
• Designing both simple and multi-tier, multi-node service templates
• Capturing requirements for server, storage, and networks
• Publishing templates to the infrastructure orchestration self service portal for service creation
• Specifying costs and resources to support tracking and reporting of resources
To accomplish these tasks:
1. Research the requirements necessary to meet operational and business unit objectives
2. Create infrastructure service templates to meet the business requirements
3. Produce a bill of materials for each template, including the resources required to provision
each template
4. Publish the templates for use by the business units
Architects can use infrastructure orchestration designer to create or modify service templates, which
can then be published for others to use.
Matrix infrastructure orchestration designer provides a graphical canvas to drag-and-drop logical
resource objects representing servers, disks, and networks. Architects connect these resource objects
together to define the desired networking and storage relationships for each group of servers.
Each logical object on the canvas specifies the requirements for the object; the requirements drive
the provisioning and ongoing maintenance operations that infrastructure orchestration supports.
Matrix infrastructure orchestration designer uses validation rules to provide continuous feedback
regarding which objects in the design are not valid, and how to correct validation errors and
warnings.
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