HP Insight Orchestration 6.3 User Guide

NOTE: Only HP-UX release 11.31 1003 or greater can be installed on the following Integrity
blades:
• BL860c i2
• BL870c i2
• BL890
• BL890c i2
The complete list of documentation for Ignite-UX is available at http://hp.com/go/ignite-ux.
Integrity VM Guest Kit installation
The Integrity VM Guest Kit must be set up on the Ignite-UX server in order to properly ignite an
HP-UX guest. You should create a “golden image” that includes both the appropriate operating
environment and Integrity VM Guest Kit software. Creating a “golden image” will ensure you have
a properly ignited VM as part of the automatic provisioning process with Insight Orchestration.
For more detailed information on Integrity VM, see HP Integrity Virtual Machines 4.2: Installation,
Configuration, and Administration and HP Integrity Virtual Machines 4.2.5: Release Notes.
Configuring HP Server Automation
For more information, see HP Server Automation complements HP Insight Control to manage HP
BladeSystem servers.
Configuring an environment for virtual provisioning
Virtual provisioning requires a correctly configured and licensed virtual machine host that is
discovered and visible in Systems Insight Manager. You can run either ESX or Hyper-V on the
virtual machine host. You can also manage Integrity VM using HP Insight Orchestration (see “Setting
up an Integrity virtual machine network” (page 25)).
For more information, see the HP BladeSystem Matrix How-To Guide: ESX Host Provisioning at HP
Insight Dynamics Information Library.
For virtual logical server provisioning to perform correctly, Insight 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\Insight Orchestration\
conf. The following table shows the default values for each hypervisor type. If you exceed these
values, virtual logical server provisioning might fail unexpectedly.
Default number of virtual maximum
concurrent requests
Hypervisor
esx.max.concurrent.requests=10ESX*
hyperv.max.concurrent.requests=5Hyper-V
integrityvm.max.concurrent.requests=5Integrity VM
NOTE: * The following ESX versions are supported:
3.5, 3i, 4 Classic, and 4i.
For each virtual logical server, Insight Orchestration supports up to 14 private disks or 15 shared
disks.
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