HP Matrix Operating Environment 7.2 Update 1 Infrastructure Orchestration User Guide

Delete service operation

When deleting a service, the Delete operation automatically deprovisions an existing infrastructure

and frees the resources for use in other services.

IMPORTANT: Deleting a service deprovisions all servers in the service, and deletes the association

of servers, disks, and networks with the service. Any users logged in to any server in the service

will be logged off.

To delete a service

1. Open the infrastructure orchestration console, self service portal, or organization administrator

portal.

2. Select the Services or My Services tab.

3. Select a service and click Delete.

4. Select a service and click Details or View Details.

5. From the Actions or Server Actions list, select Delete service.

When executing the operation, infrastructure orchestration:

• Validates the request

• Scrubs the boot and data disks

• Powers off the servers

• Deletes the virtual machine or server blade profile

• Deallocates the servers (server blades and virtual machine hosts)

• Deallocates the networks and IP addresses

• Deallocates the boot and data disks (deleting the volumes if created via SPM on-demand

provisioning)

• Executes custom actions

• Sends notifications

When you delete a deactivated physical service, infrastructure orchestration converts it to a

“clean-me” server, so that all the resources (particularly disk resources) are available to be manually

cleaned up. IO is unable to clean the disk for a deactivated service, which requires booting to the

deployment service. IO does not automatically activate the server to erase the disks because the

delete operation cannot determine which server pool to use or which blade to activate on. Because

it is not possible to erase the disks of a deactivated service, the physical resources remain in place

so that the administrator can erase the disks and delete the logical server.

Importing an existing server as a service

Matrix OE infrastructure orchestration allows you to import an existing VMware ESX/ESXi or

Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machine into a newly created IO service containing a single server group.

Importing a virtual machine as a service can be performed only by an infrastructure orchestration

Administrator.

NOTE: Deleting an IO service created from an imported virtual machine also deletes the underlying

virtual machine.

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