HP Matrix Operating Environment 7.3 and 7.3 Update 1 Infrastructure Orchestration User Guide

Matrix OE infrastructure orchestration console............................................................................96
Accessing the console........................................................................................................97
Console interface overview.................................................................................................97
Console access to deployed servers.....................................................................................98
Enabling telnet for Internet Explorer 7 or later ..................................................................99
Enabling telnet for Firefox.............................................................................................100
Matrix infrastructure orchestration organization administrator portal.............................................100
Accessing the infrastructure orchestration organization administrator portal..............................100
Organization administrator portal interface overview............................................................100
Customizing the organization administrator and self service portals........................................102
Matrix OE infrastructure orchestration self service portal.............................................................103
Accessing the infrastructure orchestration self service portal...................................................103
Self service portal interface overview..................................................................................104
4 Matrix infrastructure orchestration provisioning and allocation......................106
Matrix infrastructure orchestration lifecycle operations................................................................106
Create service operation...................................................................................................106
Delete service operation...................................................................................................107
Importing an existing server as a service.............................................................................107
Add server to group operation...........................................................................................109
Remove servers from group operation.................................................................................110
Add data disk to group operation......................................................................................111
Activate servers in group operation....................................................................................112
Deactivate servers in group operation.................................................................................112
Power on servers..............................................................................................................113
Power off servers..............................................................................................................113
Power cycle servers..........................................................................................................113
Change lease operation...................................................................................................114
Edit virtual servers operation..............................................................................................115
Managing floating IP addresses.........................................................................................116
Managing server snapshots...............................................................................................117
Adding and removing network interfaces to provisioned services............................................118
Attaching physical disks to virtual servers............................................................................118
Provisioning physical servers using local disk ......................................................................119
Allocating servers to a VM Host.........................................................................................119
Allocating storage to virtual machines................................................................................120
Excluding disks on a VM Host from the storage pool........................................................121
Unregister a VM host...................................................................................................122
Manual processes within the lifecycle operations..................................................................122
Creating infrastructure orchestration templates..........................................................................124
Creating a template with a physical ProLiant or Integrity server..............................................124
Creating a template with a physical VM Host or ESXi VM cluster............................................131
Creating a template with a ProLiant or Integrity virtual machine..............................................132
Creating a template to provision at a cloud service provider..................................................138
HP-UX vPars support.........................................................................................................139
Creating vPar guests....................................................................................................139
Setting user-defined properties................................................................................................141
Enabling custom host names..................................................................................................141
Creating a service request.....................................................................................................143
Customizing template attributes when a service is created.....................................................145
Modifying the create service timeout value..........................................................................148
Approving and automating deployment...................................................................................149
Managing new logical servers...............................................................................................150
Automated allocation............................................................................................................151
Automated operating system provisioning................................................................................152
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