Operating Environment Software Instruction Manual

For more information, see the HP BladeSystem Matrix How-To Guide: ESX Host Provisioning at

Matrix Operating Environment Information Library.

For virtual logical server provisioning to perform correctly, infrastructure orchestration limits the

number of virtual logical servers that are sent concurrently to hypervisors for provisioning. The limit

is determined by the value of the corresponding hypervisor max.concurrent.requests attribute

in the hpio.properties file located in ..\Program Files\HP\Matrix infrastructure

orchestration\conf.

The following table shows the default values for each hypervisor type. Increasing the default values

for ESX and Integrity VM might cause virtual logical server provisioning to fail unexpectedly.

Can this value be safely increased?Default number of virtual maximum concurrent requestsHypervisor

Noesx.max.concurrent.requests=10ESX

Yes, if SCVMM is not used.

Increase this value to 10 to improve

performance.

hyperv.max.concurrent.requests=5Hyper-V

Nointegrityvm.max.concurrent.requests=5Integrity VM

If Microsoft SCVMM templates are used to provision operating systems to Hyper-V VMs, this default value should remain

at 5.

For each virtual logical server, infrastructure orchestration supports up to 14 private disks or 15

shared disks.

Provisioning a Linux VM on Hyper-V

Matrix infrastructure orchestration supports provisioning a Linux VM on Hyper-V, but IO does not

personalize the VM. IO does not set the hostname, or configure the NICs for DHCP or static IP.

After provisioning, you must personalize the Linux VM.

To enable provisioning Linux VMs on Hyper-V, perform the following steps:

1. Set the following line to true in the hpio.properties file located in ..\Program Files\

HP\Matrix infrastructure orchestration\conf. The property is set to false by

default.

skip.linux.on.hyperv.template.personalization=true

2. After provisioning, personalize the Linux VM. To do so, you can write Operations Orchestration

workflows, or you can use open source PowerShell scripts.

If you provision a Linux VM on Hyper-V and do not personalize it, and the base template is

configured with a static IP address, duplicate IP addresses may result. Without personalization,

if you configured the base OS VM with DHCP, you will not get an expected static IP address.

See the HP Insight Management Support Matrix at http://www.hp.com/go/matrixoe/docs for

supported Linux guest operating systems.

Setting up virtual machine networks

Network names are correlated across hypervisor and Virtual Connect technologies to allow an

infrastructure service to be provisioned with logical servers of different types configured on the

same network.

VMware vDS (vNetwork Distributed Switch) is supported in infrastructure orchestration.

• IO can provision logical servers to ESX hosts that are preconfigured with connectivity to a vDS

switch.

• Port groups configured on the vDS switch are visible on the infrastructure orchestration console

Networks tab as virtual networks.

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