HP Insight Orchestration 6.3 User Guide

• Allocates IP addresses
• Allocates the boot disk (physical and virtual)
• Obtains approval
• Creates virtual machine or blade server profile
• Deploys the operating system and other software to boot disk
• Configures the virtual hardware
• Customizes the operating system (networking, sysprep)
• Allocates the physical data disks
• Provisions the servers for data disks
• Boots the servers
• Executes custom actions
• Sends notifications
After successfully completing the operation, Insight Orchestration provisions the additional servers
into the Insight Orchestration infrastructure service, and they are available for the duration of the
service lease period. You can access the new servers through the network.
The operation fails when:
• Resources are not available to allocate
• SAN administrator cannot create the disks
• Insight Orchestration administrator rejects the request
Add data disk to group operation
The Add data disk to group operation adds private or shared data disks to an existing infrastructure
service. This option is enabled when a data disk is present in the template. Insight Orchestration
provisions and allocates the storage to their attached servers. When executing this operation,
Insight Orchestration:
• Validates the request
• Allocates the data disks
• Obtains approval
• Powers down servers
• Makes the new disk visible to the servers
• Powers up the servers
• Executes custom actions
• Sends notifications
After successfully completing the operation, Insight Orchestration provisions the additional disks
in to the Insight Orchestration infrastructure service.
The operation fails when:
• Resources are not available to allocate.
• SAN administrator cannot create the disks.
• Insight Orchestration administrator rejects the request.
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