User`s guide

Technical white paper
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Executive summary
Organizations are faced with threats that could disrupt operations and critical IT services. HP CloudSystem Enterprise
provides automation to rapidly deliver compute resources to cloud consumers. Security must be a key component to ensure
availability of the components that deliver and provision cloud based services. This document is a reference implementation
of an HP ArcSight Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solution and CloudSystem Enterprise. Security is a key
concern of organizations deploying resources into private and public cloud environments. In this reference implementation
we will explain how to configure HP ArcSight Logger, HP ArcSight Enterprise Security Manager (ESM), and HP ArcSight
Connectors to monitor and protect the core components of HP CloudSystem Enterprise. This document will also explain
how to configure and protect services provisioned by HP CloudSystem Enterprise with HP ArcSight security products.
Target audience: The intended audience of this white paper is system integrators, installers, and administrators of HP
CloudSystem Enterprise. The reader should be familiar with CloudSystem Enterprise and HP CloudSystem Matrix.
HP CloudSystem Enterprise overview
With HP CloudSystem Enterprise, an organization can deliver not only IaaS, but also anything as a Service (XaaS) directly to
line-of-business teams. That is, in addition to delivering virtual servers and storage as services, CloudSystem Enterprise can
manage and provision enterprise-grade applications such as Microsoft® Exchange, or even custom developed applications,
such as cloud-based services. Figure 1 illustrates the HP CloudSystem Enterprise architecture. HP CloudSystem Enterprise
extends the foundation of HP CloudSystem Matrix with the seamless integration of HP Cloud Service Automation (CSA). HP
CloudSystem Enterprise manages the entire application-to-infrastructure lifecycle—from provisioning, to managing and
monitoring, to releasing resources back to the cloud. The diagram shows how Cloud Service Automation, with its cloud
management platform for brokering and managing enterprise grade application and infrastructure cloud services, and HP
Matrix Operating Environment are engineered to work together, as well as with additional HP CloudSystem extensions and
third-party assets.
HP CloudSystem Enterprise supply layer
Like the HP CloudSystem Matrix offering, the supply layer in HP CloudSystem Enterprise calls on the Matrix Operating
Environment for service delivery of infrastructure elements such as compute, network, storage, and other resources, both
physical and virtual. HP CloudSystem Enterprise can also leverage VMware vCloud Director for infrastructure services.
Supported infrastructure includes HP BladeSystem servers, HP storage, and HP networking, as well as servers, storage, and
networking from third parties.
Figure 1. CloudSystem Enterprise Functional Architecture
HP CloudSystem Enterprise demand and delivery: HP Cloud Service Automation
HP Cloud Service Automation software enables and manages the delivery of application services. It includes user interfaces
that allow infrastructure design, specifying what assets will be available, and service design, in which a service designer can
add to and manage service catalogs. Cloud Service Automation orchestrates the deployment of compute resources and
complex multitier application architectures. It integrates and leverages the strengths of several mature HP management
and automation products. And it adds workload management, service design, and a customer portal to create a