Operating Environment Software Owner's manual

architect can also author and attach Operations Orchestration workflows to a template to automate
additional IT tasks during the provisioning and ongoing management of the service infrastructure.
• Administrator Uses HP Insight Orchestration console running in Systems Insight Manager to manage
the overall behavior of Insight Orchestration including creating Insight Orchestration server pools,
managing the available networks and software inventory, approving user requests, and modifying user
service infrastructures as required, for example to migrate logical servers between server blades to
support maintenance activities on the physical environment. An administrator also performs manual
tasks within a semi-automated operation.
• User Uses the Self-Service portal to create infrastructure services from templates. The user initiates the
creation of a new infrastructure service by selecting a template design, selecting one or more assigned
server pools to use, specifying a lease period, specifying a service name, and (depending on the
template) a hostname completion string. After the infrastructure is allocated and provisioned it is available
to the user for the duration of the lease period. During this time the user can update the service, for
example adding more servers or storage using the Insight Orchestration request process for the ongoing
management of services through the Self-Service portal.
Software deployment and service provisioning
Insight Orchestration supports a variety of mechanisms for operating system software deployment. The
software can be realized as an image derived from a virtual server, or as deployment software such as an
Insight Control server deployment job, an Ignite/UX job, or a HP Server Automation job. Each subtype
represents an approach for offering selectable software that can be installed on a physical or virtual server.
To simplify system software deployment, Insight Orchestration utilizes virtual machine templates, physical
server deployment jobs, and Operations Orchestration workflows.
During provisioning, Insight Orchestration executes associated Operations Orchestration workflows at their
respective execution points. After Insight Orchestration processes the request, the resulting service is maintained
on a user-by-user basis with a set of physical and virtual resources that reflects the original template design.
You can modify running infrastructure services many ways, including adding servers and data disks.
8 Introduction