HP Virtualization Manager with Logical Server Manager 6.2 User Guide

NOTE: Modular Smart Arrays (MSAs) are not supported in the current release of SPM.
Operations Orchestration workflows
The standard Insight Dynamics solution provides out-of-the-box support for HP BladeSystem
c-Class servers using Virtual Connect and the HP EVA storage solution (which can be bundled
as part of HP BladeSystem Matrix). Insight Dynamics is able to gather information regarding
servers and perform power operations through Virtual Connect. Insight Dynamics is able to
gather information regarding storage and, when used in conjunction with the HP Storage
Provisioning Manager, perform operations such as changing hostmode and LUN masking via
SMI-S. In addition to this out-of-the-box support, Insight Dynamics supported servers and storage
can be extended via HP Operations Orchestration (OO) workflows. The Insight Dynamics solution
for infrastructure orchestration includes reference implementations of OO workflows for both
servers and storage.
• The server workflows included with Insight Dynamics include support for ProLiant and
Integrity iLO2 or later servers not using Virtual Connect, and can be customized for other
HP server types as appropriate.
• The storage workflows included with Insight Dynamics include support for XP arrays. The
workflows demonstrate use of the XP CLI and can be customized for other storage types
(for example, EMC) or other means of interacting with storage (for example, SMI-S versus
CLI).
The following sections describe the Extensible Server and Storage Adapter (ESA) component of
the Insight Dynamics solution, configuration steps, and how the server and storage workflows
can be customized.
Extensible Server & Storage Adapter
Extensible Server & Storage Adapter (ESA) provides storage provisioning and server operations
for logical servers and HP Insight Orchestration. Insight Dynamics includes reference
implementations which can be customized for specific environments.
Operations Orchestration, as used in ESA, is in an embedded form called the OO engine. The
OO engine defines and utilizes the work flows for extending the storage and servers features of
Insight software. OO is a system for creating and using actions in structured sequences (ops
flows) that maintain, troubleshoot, repair, and provision the IT resources of the datacenter.
For ESA to invoke OO workflows (for either server or storage workflows), it is necessary to
configure the OO credentials. For information about configuring ESA, see “Configuring Extensible
Server & Storage Adapter (ESA)” (page 61).
For more information about HP Operations Orchestration and ESA, see the Server and Storage
Workflows for HP Insight Dynamics white paper at www.hp.com/go/insightdynamics/docs.
92 Defining storage for logical servers