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

Overview
What is CloudSystem bursting?
Cloud bursting is a feature of HP CloudSystem Matrix that enables enterprises to provision public and private infrastructure resources
seamlessly. Combined with CloudSystem’s powerful private cloud management capabilities, the ability to ‘burst’ beyond the private
cloud environment and to leverage infrastructure resources offered by external cloud service providers creates a virtually unlimited
pool of hybrid cloud resources for CloudSystem users to draw upon for cloud service delivery.
CloudSystem supports bursting to the following cloud service providers:
• Matrix-to-Matrix
• HP Matrix KVM Private Cloud
• HP Cloud Services (HPCS)
• Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
• Savvis
The following sections describe bursting to these service providers, with the exception of Savvis. Bursting to Savvis is described in the
Cloud bursting with HP CloudSystem Matrix infrastructure orchestration and Savvis white paper, available at
http://www.hp.com/go/matrixoe/docs.
Matrix-to-Matrix
CloudSystem Matrix version 7.2 and later includes a bursting connecter that, when configured and enabled, allows a CloudSystem
Matrix system to provide compute services to other CloudSystem Matrix systems. This enables CloudSystem-based service providers to
offer compute services to CloudSystem private clouds. It also provides an alternative to federation for enterprises with multiple
CloudSystem Matrix systems to share compute resources across systems.
HP Matrix KVM Private Cloud
HP Matrix KVM Private Cloud includes the HP Matrix KVM Admin Console, an administrative console that runs in concert with
HP Matrix Operating Environment on a pre-integrated appliance. The Matrix KVM Admin Console enables fast virtual machine
deployment, automatic detection and accelerated integration of VM hosts, and includes a health monitoring subsystem to provide up-
to-date information about VM hosts.
The Matrix KVM Admin Console allows you to prepare operating system images and pools of IP addresses for use in deploying a
management appliance to a virtual data center (a cloud) for private use, and to manage the VM hosts and deployed KVM instances.
For more information, see the HP Matrix 7.2 KVM Private Cloud Getting Started Guide available at www.hp.com/go/matrixoe/docs.
HP Cloud Services
HP Cloud Services provides public cloud infrastructure, platform services, and cloud solutions for developers, independent software
vendors (ISVs) and businesses. Designed with OpenStack™ technology at the core, HP Cloud Services’ architecture ensures no vendor
lock-in, improves developer productivity, features easy-to-use tools for faster time to code, provides access to a rich partner ecosystem,
and is backed by exceptional customer support. HP Cloud Services’ initial public cloud services offerings include on-demand compute
instances or virtual machines, scalable online storage capacity and accelerated delivery of cached content to end users. HP’s full suite
of public cloud services will enable the next generation of web services to be built, run, and scaled on a global basis, backed with a
broad marketplace of analytics, tools, and services. For more information, see http://hpcloud.com/.
Amazon EC2
Amazon EC2 is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud to make web-scale computing easier for
developers. Amazon EC2 presents a virtual computing environment, allowing customers to launch instances with various operating
systems, load them with a custom application environment, manage network access permissions, and run an image using the desired
number of systems. For more information, see http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/.
CloudSystem Matrix bursting concepts and capabilities
Support for interfacing to cloud providers enables existing CloudSystem Matrix user interfaces and governance to be used to create
and manage hybrid cloud services. After one or more cloud capacity pools are defined to interface to a provider, CloudSystem
Matrix can define and manage logical server groups using cloud provider defined images and hardware profiles. Capabilities
include the following:
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