Cloud bursting with HP CloudSystem Matrix infrastructure orchestration: Matrix-to-Matrix, HP Matrix KVM Private Cloud, HP Cloud Services, and Amazon EC2

Overview of CloudSystem configuration
The following sections describe the configuration steps that must be performed in CloudSystem before you can provision to a cloud
provider. These steps are similar for all providers, with any provider specific considerations listed in separate sections.
The configuration steps in CloudSystem are:
1. Edit the infrastructure orchestration properties file
2. Copy sample configuration files
3. Define capacity pools
4. Configure capacity pools
5. Create the server type configuration file (optional)
6. Create image filters for each capacity pool
7. Create mxpassword entries
8. Configure the SSL certificate
9. Restart the infrastructure orchestration service
Figure 1 shows the purpose and relationship among the CloudSystem configuration and properties files.
Figure 1 HP CloudSystem configuration
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