Operating Environment Software Instruction Manual

Manual storage provisioning
Manual storage provisioning can be performed using the Matrix OE visualization logical server
management Modify→Logical Server Storage Pools screen and SPM.
Manual storage provisioning is used when no storage has been pre-provisioned or when only a
subset of the storage has been pre-provisioned for a logical server. At service creation, infrastructure
orchestration attempts to locate and allocate the storage resources. The storage pool entry must
fully match the storage requirements for the logical server: number of SAN volumes, size, RAID
level, OS type, redundancy, and optionally a set of one or more tags.
When no storage resources are found, the overall request pauses for the administrator to manually
provision the required storage. The administrator is notified by an Operations
Orchestration-generated email message that contains the details of the service being provisioned
and the storage resources that are required. After the administrator has completed the storage
provisioning process, the request is re-activated and allowed to continue.
If the IO administrator submits storage requests to SPM and no candidates are returned, the
unfulfilled requests are visible within SPM and the storage administrator can create appropriate
storage matching the needs (and do appropriate SAN zoning), then fulfill the request within SPM.
If IO cannot find storage for an automatically generated storage pool entry, the storage pool entry
is deleted. The administrator can fulfill the storage manually, or can adjust the storage in SPM by,
for example, putting more volumes in the catalog, importing arrays, or modifying the template
before performing a repeated attempt to create the storage pool entry and fulfill it through SPM.
Manually creating SAN-backed storage in Matrix OE visualization
To manually create SAN-backed storage pool entries in Matrix OE visualization, perform the
following steps.
1. Verify that the target enclosures have been successfully discovered by Systems Insight Manager.
2. Create a Virtual Connect domain group that includes the target enclosures in VCEM.
3. Refresh Matrix OE, synchronizing it with VCEM. To refresh Matrix OE:
a. Using Systems Insight Manager, select Tools→HP Matrix OE visualization. Then select
Tools→Logical Servers→Refresh.
The Refresh Server Resource Information page appears.
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