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Part Number: 00294445S1101
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Student guide
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HP Converged Infrastructure Components
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Objectives ...................................................................................................... 1
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Infrastructure challenges ................................................................................... 2
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IT sprawl is taking business to the breaking point .......................................... 2
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Infrastructure management challenges.......................................................... 4
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Solve complexity and transform with a converged infrastructure ................ 7
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Converged Infrastructure delivered ..................................................................... 8
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Infrastructure operating environment (HP Matrix Operating Environment) .......... 8
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FlexFabric ................................................................................................ 9
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Virtual resource pools ................................................................................ 9
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Data Center Smart Grid ........................................................................... 10
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Converged Infrastructure advantage ........................................................... 11
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HP Converged Infrastructure detail..............................................................13
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Converged Infrastructure attributes .......................................................15
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Bringing it all together........................................................................17
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Intellectual property .................................................................... 18
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Open integration........................................................................ 19
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Expertise ................................................................................... 20
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Investment protection ............................................................................... 21
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Getting customers started with a converged infrastructure ............................. 22
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HP Converged Infrastructure components — Servers .................................... 24
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HP Converged Infrastructure components — Storage ................................... 26
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HP Converged Infrastructure components — Storage networking ................... 28
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HP Converged Infrastructure components — Virtual Connect..........................31
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HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 10Gb Ethernet module .................................31
Virtual Connect FlexFabric 10Gb/24-port module................................. 32
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HP Virtual Connect 4Gb Fibre Channel module.................................... 34
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HP Virtual Connect 8Gb 20-Port Fibre Channel module......................... 35
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HP Virtual Connect 8Gb 24-Port Fibre Channel module ......................... 36
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Virtual Connect FlexFabric........................................................................ 37
FlexFabric adapter features ................................................................ 38
FlexFabric adapter iSCSI features........................................................ 39
Flex-10 adapter mapping with VC Flex-10 and FlexFabric modules ................. 40
Flex-10 adapter mapping with FlexFabric modules ....................................... 40
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Example of a VC Server Profile using FlexFabric ....................................41
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HP Converged Infrastructure components — Power and cooling .................... 42
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Learning check .............................................................................................. 43
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HP Matrix OE
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HP Matrix OE overview .................................................................................... 2
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HP Matrix OE for advanced infrastructure management ................................. 2
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Matrix OE product features ........................................................................ 3
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Features added to HP Matrix OE (Insight Dynamics 6.2) ................................ 6
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Infrastructure as a service for HP platforms.................................................... 8
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IO high-level architecture........................................................................... 11
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IO Designer: Key features..........................................................................13
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IO self-service portal: Key features..............................................................15
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IO Administration Console: Key features .....................................................16
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Infrastructure orchestration – Business to technical processes workflow.............17
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IO network pools .................................................................................... 21
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IO portals .............................................................................................. 23
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Important IO terminology ......................................................................... 23
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Infrastructure orchestration documentation .................................................. 26
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Learning check .............................................................................................. 27
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HP Operations Orchestration Studio ............................................................ 2
Example of OO Studio Library ............................................................. 3
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OO requirements................................................................................ 3
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Infrastructure orchestration provisioning – HP IO Designer .............................. 4
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Creating an IO template...................................................................... 4
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Optimize infrastructure confidently............................................................... 8
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Continuously optimize resource usage and power ......................................... 9
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Capacity planning functionality overview............................................. 10
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Multi-vendor capacity planning and enhanced virtualization management ...... 11
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Forecasting future utilization ................................................................13
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Examples of capacity planning reports.......................................... 14
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Adjust resources for demanding applications ...............................................15
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Logical server management.................................................................16
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Power calibration...............................................................................17
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VMware DRS modeling ......................................................................18
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Data collection with Capacity Advisor ..................................................18
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Recovery management architectural diagram ....................................... 20
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Streamlined storage pool management ...................................................... 21
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HP Storage with BladeSystem Matrix ................................................... 22
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Server/Storage Administrator Interaction Model ................................... 24
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Storage tagging ............................................................................... 25
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IO users........................................................................................... 26
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Other roles............................................................................................. 27
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IO terms and concepts............................................................................. 28
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Create request flow example .....................................................................31
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User tasks ..................................................................................................... 46
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User tasks overview ................................................................................. 46
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Templates tab ......................................................................................... 47
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Creating a service ............................................................................ 48
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Viewing template details.....................................................................51
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My Requests tab ..................................................................................... 52
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My Services tab ...................................................................................... 53
Service details.................................................................................. 54
Setting servers to standby .................................................................. 55
Restoring server operation.................................................................. 55
Requesting additional servers ............................................................. 57
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My Pools tab .......................................................................................... 60
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My History tab........................................................................................ 62
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Designer tasks............................................................................................... 63
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IO Designer operations............................................................................ 63
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Starting the Designer ............................................................................... 64
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Designer editing areas............................................................................. 65
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Designer strategy .................................................................................... 67
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Template states ....................................................................................... 69
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Setting template defaults.................................................................... 69
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Setting physical server defaults ........................................................... 70
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Adding a server ............................................................................... 71
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Configuring software......................................................................... 73
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Configuring subnet attributes ....................................................... 76
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Viewing network connections....................................................... 79
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Validation example..................................................................... 82
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Deleting a template........................................................................... 83
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Importing a template......................................................................... 84
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Viewing template cost data ................................................................ 85
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Creating and managing workflows .................................................................. 86
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Workflows Edit tab .................................................................................. 89
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Objectives ...................................................................................................... 1
Troubleshooting IO .......................................................................................... 2
Troubleshooting information........................................................................ 3
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IO self-service portal ........................................................................................ 5
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IO configuration file......................................................................................... 6
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Correcting a failed server deployment ................................................................ 8
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Setting the logging configuration ................................................................ 9
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Checks provided with IOAssist ...................................................................12
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Using sbapi ...................................................................................................14
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Using lsmutil ..................................................................................................15
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Answers
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HP Matrix OE ................................................................................................. 3
IO Configuration ............................................................................................. 4
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After completing this module, you should be able to:
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Identify current infrastructure management challenges of HP customers
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Infrastructure challenges
As chief executive officers (CEOs) continue their organizational and financial
restructuring and prepare for new major regulations, their focus is on sustaining and
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steadying top-line growth, striving for excellence in execution, and driving toward
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new profit goals. Chief information officers (CIOs), on the other hand, must be
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prepared to “take the CEO hand-off” and deliver significant cost reduction. This
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means possibly even canceling some major projects no longer aligned with survival
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and dealing with unexpected acquisitions and divestitures.
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unpredictable, business and IT approaches need to be more flexible, and innovation
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is critical to success. As new delivery models such as cloud computing emerge,
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customers are looking for new ways to reduce cost and extract more value from their
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infrastructure investments.
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By many estimates, most organizations are spending the majority of their IT budgets
on operational costs associated with IT sprawl while business innovation has been
throttled down:
Operations and maintenance: 70% of budget
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Rigid and aging infrastructure
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Application and information complexity
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Inflexible business processes
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Unpredictable business cycles
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convergence has emerged as the top industry movement. It brings everything into a
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simpler and manageable light, with broad-reaching benefits that can be realized
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service-centric management approach to simplify IT and accelerate business results.
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For most IT organizations, this evolution will lead them to the optimum converged
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infrastructure: The matching of IT resource supply with the demand for business
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applications, providing the time and resources for innovation for both IT and the
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Infrastructure management challenges
Flexibility
Less than 20% of companies can confidently
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scale IT delivery to meet business demands*
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60% of unplanned outages result
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HP customers have identified the following infrastructure management challenges:
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Flexibility — Fewer than 20% of companies can confidently scale IT delivery up
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or down to meet new business demands, according to an HP CIO survey
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conducted in 2009. There is a relentless demand for IT to meet changing
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business needs. The technology infrastructure has become the business
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infrastructure; it needs to adapt and grow just like the business. IT administrators
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are under tremendous pressure to deliver better services, faster.
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Mistakes — Industry estimates are that 60% of unplanned outages result from
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human error.
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number of virtual machines in use will increase 100% by 2012.
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your customers unlock the potential that their infrastructures hold to overcome these
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challenges and to move on to the next-generation data center.
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series of steps and meetings that complicate what could be a simpler process. The
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preceding graphic illustrates the inefficient process, which can takes weeks or months
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to complete. This process typically involves reviews and approvals, meetings and
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more meetings, plus the unpacking and implementation of the systems.
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The graphic in the bottom left corner reflects the siloed nature of data center teams
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that must coordinate the build process across servers, network, storage, and facilities.
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complexity in the overall provisioning process. Sometimes the process can be
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derailed, requiring a return to the starting point and creating further delays.
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Traditional data centers are built around an aging architecture, which impacts
organizational structures and processes. These infrastructures are hard-wired, racked,
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governance. As a result, different systems require different processes to build and
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manage the infrastructure. It can take weeks to implement new application
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infrastructure and bring new services online. IT consolidation and migration projects
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In addition, lifecycle management capabilities are typically limited, manual, and
labor-intensive. From a cost perspective, provisioning and maintenance are too high,
along with power and cooling. Processors, memory, network, disk I/O, and power
resources are underutilized and over-provisioned for peak workloads. Stale virtual
machines persist undetected, consuming resources. And in the event of failure,
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application recovery can be expensive and slow.
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improve efficiency, so too must the infrastructure. Virtualization can help to some
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degree, but it is not the complete solution.
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Benefits of automated provisioning
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ongoing management simple. In a shared services view, modular resources are
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virtualized, pooled, and shared. Application service requests can be made from
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templates in a service catalog by means of a common portal, and a single
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administrator can initiate a change. Approvals can happen faster, and resource
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allocation and provisioning are automated and integrated with core IT processes to
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provisioning complex infrastructure with shared services. Contrast this with the time-
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A converged infrastructure is the optimal architecture of virtual pools of servers,
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storage, and networking to run applications. An HP Converged Infrastructure model
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provisioning and recovery of resources within a pool from both the provider side and
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FlexFabric
With the HP FlexFabric, network connections and capacity can be fully virtualized
from the edge to the core. This capability enables businesses to deliver network-as-a-
service wire connections once and to freely move applications across or between
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servers or even across or between data centers. It creates a new balance by
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combining the best standards-based networking technologies with a new modular
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architecture that optimizes the full range of virtualization capabilities.
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The FlexFabric enables your customers to meet business requirements for low total
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cost of ownership (TCO), faster time to service, and critical requirements for IT
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governance and compliance. The result is:
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shared capacity that can be combined, divided, and repurposed to match any
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Data Center Smart Grid
The HP Data Center Smart Grid creates an intelligent, energy-aware environment
across IT and facilities to optimize energy use, reduce energy costs, and reclaim
facility capacity. For the first time, businesses can accurately visualize and control
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data center energy use and environmental impact in real time across the entire data
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center, enabling them to take action based on accurate data.
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Lower costs required to power and cool IT
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Has differentiating technologies engineered for convergence — Featured
technologies include:
HP Insight software such as HP Insight Dynamics (also known as Matrix
Operating Environment)
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Over the last decade, the increase in the number of applications and underutilized
servers has been one of the biggest drivers of IT sprawl. Moving forward, servers
must be designed to enable clients to easily move applications and data as compute
resources become available to accommodate changing workloads. Beyond the
power of the processor, servers must maximize efficiency, simplify operations, and
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Orchestrated — Tight orchestration means that the infrastructure is driven by
policies and service level agreements, has centralized management of the
resource pool (including power consumption), and has highly automated
workflows so the environment can be scaled up or down based on the needs of
each application. More complex businesses and many enterprises can use the
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The FCoE switch portfolio includes:
HP StorageWorks 2408 Converged Network Switch — Simplifies IT
environments and reduces operational costs by supporting converged SAN and
LAN traffic
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The Virtual Connect portfolio consists of several models with different capabilities.
HP 1/10Gb-F Virtual Connect Ethernet module
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HP Flex-10 technology significantly reduces infrastructure costs by increasing the
number of NICs per connection without adding extra blade I/O modules and
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Four SFP+ external uplink ports configurable as 1/10Gb auto-negotiating
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Eight 10Gb SR, LR fiber, and copper SFP+ uplink ports (four ports also support
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FlexFabric adapters offer the following iSCSI features:
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1. List the three infrastructure management challenges identified in this module.
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HP Matrix OE overview
HP Matrix OE (Insight Dynamics) is a single toolkit to accelerate complex IT projects,
simplify daily operations, and proactively manage data center capacity and power.
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complex IT projects and simplify daily operations. By continuously analyzing and
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Matrix OE functionality is available for the HP ProLiant and HP Integrity platforms
and environments that mix the two platforms.
Matrix OE product features
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Automated provisioning through a self-service portal
Using the web-based self-service portal, users such as application
teams can request infrastructure services from a template library, based
on their user role.
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Recovery management
Provides disaster recovery with the push of a button
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Features added to HP Matrix OE (Insight Dynamics 6.2)
New hardware support
Integrity BL8x0c i2 server blades and Superdome 2 server support Systems
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Capacity Advisor
Models the memory for VMware ESX servers including only memory used
by each VM, as if the VM has no reserved memory (the current default
setting for ESX). For HP Integrity VM and Hyper-V, memory for VMs is still
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The infrastructure orchestration functionality provides lifecycle services for groups of
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Administrator — Uses the IO Console running in HP Systems Insight Manager
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software deployment. The software can be realized as an image derived from a
virtual server, or as an HP Insight Control server deployment job. Each subtype
represents an approach for offering selectable software that can be installed on a
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An architect creates and maintains standardized infrastructure templates, working
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must enable quick response to changing requirements.
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IO server pools are groups of resources that users use to submit requests to create
new infrastructure services or add to existing infrastructure services.
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Automated storage provisioning depends on pre-provisioning of SAN volumes. Once
the SAN volumes have been pre-provisioned, IO can automate the LUN presentation
process to a server through two different approaches. The first approach is called
“Static” SAN volume automation through multi-initiator NPIV. In this approach, SAN
volumes are pre-masked to one more initiator WWNs within the SAN. Zoning is also
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Manager’s storage pool as storage pool entries. At service creation, IO is able to
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SPM has the concept of unmanaged arrays. Any pre-presented SAN volume can be
manually entered into the SPM interface, creating a catalog entry which can be
matched against a Storage Pool Entry to provide logical server storage suitable for
use by IO. A managed array enables the ability for SPM to perform certain storage
operations such as gathering property information, changing the hostmode, or
performing LUN masking. Managed arrays can be used for “Dynamic” SAN volume
allocation automation. Unmanaged arrays do not support the automated mechanism
to change hostmode and LUN masking.
SPM supports two basic control paths for array management. The first option uses the
SMI-S protocol. In the 6.2 release of Virtualization Manager, EVA arrays can be
managed through SMI-S. The second option makes use of Operations Orchestration
as a basic mechanism by which additional arrays can be integrated similar to the
integration for heterogeneous servers described in the sections above.
IO network pools
Networking connectivity options define by Virtual Connect Domain group (VC
Ethernet component) or virtual network (vSwitch) in Hypervisor.
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Putting it all together
Using infrastructure orchestration
Infrastructure orchestration supports four main activities to automate the deployment
of infrastructure services:
Design — An architect uses the graphical designer to create simple or complex
infrastructure templates that, after being tested, can be published for users to
create infrastructure services.
Provision — A self-service portal user selects an existing template and then
requests infrastructure provisioning from it, against an assigned pool of
resources. The administrator can approve or deny this request and monitor its
progress.
Operate — The administrator manages server, network, and storage pools,
defines virtual machine images and software deployment jobs, performs manual
provisioning tasks as part of the fulfillment of self-service requests, and uses IO
to monitor the health and utilization of the managed environment.
Integrate — Architects and administrators integrate infrastructure orchestration
with existing IT processes by modifying or creating Operations Orchestration
workflows to customize the infrastructure orchestration automation. They can link
to approval processes, extend operating system deployment and server
configuration, and integrate the SAN management processes with server
deployment.
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IO portals
Infrastructure orchestration uses three portals:
HP IO Designer — This portal enables an architect to plan and design
multiserver, multitier infrastructures by using a drag-and-drop interface.
HP IO console — This portal is integrated into HP SIM to enable an
administrator to deploy, manage, and monitor the overall behavior of
infrastructure orchestration and its users, templates, services, and resources.
HP IO self-service portal — This portal enables an IT client to shop for and
create infrastructure services from published templates.
Important IO terminology
To maximize your sales potential, ensure that you understand the following
infrastructure orchestration terminology:
Allocation — The server, storage, and network resources (such as IP addresses)
assigned for a request, based on the criteria defined in the template, resource
pools assigned to the user, and the current reservations or allocations of
resources completed by infrastructure orchestration.
Approvals — A requirement for requests submitted by self-service users.
Approvals are given by an administrator, and they occur between the allocation
and provisioning phases of a service.
Infrastructure service — A running configuration of infrastructure resources that
is designed to run a business application such as a multitier web application.
Infrastructure resources include server blades, virtual machines, SAN disks,
networks, and IP addresses. An infrastructure service is also referred to as a
service or service instance.
Lease period — The duration, or lifetime, of an infrastructure service. The lease
period is set or changed by the user.
Provisioning — The process of creating a service from a template. Through the
IO self-service portal or the IO console, a user submits a request to create the
service. Then the IO controller searches its inventory, allocating the computing
resources to all logical resource definitions in the template.
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Resource pools — Groupings of physical server blades and virtual machine
hosts managed by HP Matrix OE. An administrator controls resource utilization
by allowing users access to one or more server pools.
A storage pool defines available logical unit numbers (LUN) used as boot or
data disks for physical servers.
Request — Users submit requests to perform initial provisioning and ongoing
changes to the infrastructure. Users can monitor and cancel requests.
Administrators approve, reject, cancel, or continue user requests.
Users can submit the following types of requests:
Create an infrastructure service
Delete a service
Place servers on standby
Resume servers from standby
Update a service to add servers
Update a service to add storage
Change the lease period on a service
Template — A tool that specifies the requirements, or design, for an
infrastructure service in terms of server groups, networks, and storage. A
template can also define customization points that use HP Operations
Orchestration workflows to be executed during provisioning requests.
Workflow — A set of actions that execute customer-specific IT tasks. Workflows
are designed using Operations Orchestration, which can be launched from CMS
homepage. You can use workflows to define integration with your IT processes,
including approvals, manual operating system deployment, manual storage
provisioning, and notifications.
You can also associate workflows with IO templates. These service-action
workflows can be executed before and after an associated request. They are
intended to perform actions specific to a template and the services created from
it.
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Infrastructure orchestration documentation
For more information about infrastructure orchestration, refer to the following sources:
HP Matrix OE (Insight Dynamics) infrastructure orchestration release notes
The release notes provide documentation for what is provided in the newest
release, features, change notifications, system requirements, and known issues.
The release notes are available on the HP Technical documentation website at:
[Link]
HP IO help system
The help system provides a complete set of documentation for using,
maintaining, and troubleshooting infrastructure orchestration. To access the help
system, use the Help menu.
HP IO User Guide
The user guide provides a complete set of documentation for using, maintaining,
and troubleshooting infrastructure orchestration. Access the user guide on the HP
Technical documentation website at: [Link]
HP Matrix OE (Insight Dynamics) infrastructure orchestration website
The website provides useful information and product links. Go to the HP website
([Link] or access Software Depot home page at
([Link] and then search for HP Insight
Dynamics infrastructure orchestration.
Download links
A newer version is available for download.
The latest version of HP Matrix OE for HP-UX (Insight Dynamics - VSE for
Integrity) is available from the following location:
[Link]
ctNumber=vse
The latest version of HP Matrix OE (Insight Dynamics for ProLiant and non-HP
servers) is available from the following location:
[Link]
ctNumber=HPID
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Learning check
1. What is HP Matrix OE (Insight Dynamics)?
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2. Fill in the blanks:
The infrastructure orchestration functionality extends HP Matrix OE to provide
___________ ____________ and ________________ of infrastructure services
from shared resource pools using a __________________ __________.
3. List three new features of HP Insight Control software suite 6.2
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4. What are the four main activities that HP infrastructure orchestration supports to
automate the deployment of infrastructure services?
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5. HP infrastructure orchestration uses what three portals?
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Configuring infrastructure orchestration solutions
The infrastructure orchestration (IO) functionality extends HP Matrix OE (Insight
Dynamics) to provide rapid provisioning and repurposing of infrastructure services
from shared resource pools by using a self-service portal. IO delivers advanced
template-driven design, provisioning, and ongoing operations for multinode, multitier,
infrastructure services built around HP platforms consisting of:
HP Insight Control, including its virtual machine management functionality
HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager (VCEM)
HP Insight Dynamics
In addition to HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM), Insight Control, and Insight
Dynamics configuration and maintenance, the infrastructure orchestration solution
requires its own maintenance tasks. These include:
Configuring HP Operations Orchestration
Configuring users
Licensing IO
Configuring resources (virtual networks, HP Virtual Connect technology, storage
area network (SAN)-backed storage, and server pools)
Configuring virtual and physical provisioning (virtual machine templates and
Insight Control server deployment jobs)
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Important terms
To maximize your sales potential, ensure that you understand the following HP Insight
Dynamics infrastructure orchestration terminology:
Allocation — The server, storage, and network resources (such as IP addresses)
assigned for a request, based on the criteria defined in the template, resource
pools assigned to the user, and the current reservations or allocations of
resources completed by Insight Dynamics infrastructure orchestration.
Approvals — A requirement for requests submitted by self-service users.
Approvals are given by an administrator, and they occur between the allocation
and provisioning phases of a service.
Infrastructure service — A running configuration of infrastructure resources that
is designed to run a business application such as a multitier web application.
Infrastructure resources include server blades, virtual machines, SAN disks,
networks, and IP addresses. An infrastructure service is also referred to as a
service or service instance.
Lease period — The duration, or lifetime, of an infrastructure service. The lease
period is set or changed by the user.
Provisioning — The process of creating a service from a template. Through the
IO self-service portal or the IO console, a user submits a request to create the
service. Then the IO controller searches its inventory, allocating the computing
resources to all logical resource definitions in the template.
Resource pools — Groupings of physical server blades and virtual machine
hosts managed by HP Insight Dynamics. An administrator controls resource
utilization by allowing users access to one or more server pools.
A storage pool defines available logical unit numbers (LUNs) used as boot or
data disks for physical servers.
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Request — Users submit requests to perform initial provisioning and ongoing
changes to the infrastructure. Users can monitor and cancel requests.
Administrators approve, reject, cancel, or continue user requests.
Users can submit the following types of requests:
Create an infrastructure service
Delete a service
Place servers on standby
Resume servers from standby
Update a service to add servers
Update a service to add storage
Change the lease period on a service
Template — A tool that specifies the requirements, or design, for an
infrastructure service in terms of server groups, networks, and storage. A
template can also define customization points that use HP Operations
Orchestration workflows to be executed during provisioning requests.
Workflow — A set of actions that execute customer-specific IT tasks. Workflows
are designed using Operations Orchestration, which can be launched from
Insight Dynamics. You can use workflows to define integration with your IT
processes, including approvals, manual operating system deployment, manual
storage provisioning, and notifications.
You can also associate workflows with IO templates. These service-action workflows
can be executed before and after an associated request. They are intended to
perform actions specific to a template and the services created from it.
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Licensing IO
License Manager screen
IO licenses can be added from the HP SIM License Manager, which is accessed
through the Deploy menu.
The following licenses must be used to manage servers with IO:
HP Insight Dynamics suite for ProLiant (includes Insight Control functionalities)
VCEM (enclosure licenses)
The license for IO is applied during the installation and configuration process by
using the Managed System Setup Wizard.
IO supports the unlicensing of HP Integrity servers with the vselicense -r hpio -
n <nodename> command.
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Configuring users
IO Users tab in HP SIM
To configure IO users, you must first create the appropriate user groups in the
operating system (either locally or in the Active Directory structure), and then add
users with those associated groups to Insight Control.
Note
When IO is not launched from HP SIM, allow blocked content to be displayed by
clicking in the yellow bar near the top of the screen.
Configuring IO users in Microsoft Windows
IO user groups in Server Manager
During the IO installation process, you are prompted to set up users, but you can
also add users later, using a Windows procedure. To add users to any IO user
groups, use your computer management or administrative tools.
Note
The HP Insight Software Installer adds the user who installed the system to the
HPIO_Administrators group.
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The three classes of IO users represented as Windows user groups are:
HPIO_Users — Can log in to the IO self-service portal ([Link]
ip]:51443/hpio/portal) and initiate requests for provisioning, using published
templates. These requests require approval from an IO administrator.
HPIO_Architects — Have the privileges of the HPIO_Users group and can access
the IO Designer ([Link] ip]:51443/hpio/designer) to create, modify, and
publish templates.
HPIO_Administrators — Have the privileges of the HPIO_Architects group and
can access the IO console through HP SIM, initiate requests without requiring
approval, modify IO configuration items, configure networks and pools, grant
users access to existing resources, and approve, reject, continue, or cancel
requests.
You can access a list of users from the IO page in HP SIM. This table displays
login information (including last login), roles, and assigned pools.
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Configuring authorizations in HP SIM
Infrastructure orchestration user configuration in HP SIM
Through the HP SIM Users and Authorizations page, you can configure the
HPIO_Administrators group to have appropriate rights for HP SIM, Insight Control,
Insight Dynamics, and IO features. The most commonly used toolboxes are assigned
to the HPIO_Administrators group by the installer, and these toolboxes can be edited
when necessary.
To manually add authorizations:
1. In the HP SIM menu bar, select Options Security User and Authorizations.
2. Click the Authorizations tab.
3. Click New Authorization.
4. Select the HPIO_Administrators group.
5. If you want the administrator to have all orchestration privileges, select Copy all
authorization of this user or (template), and then select Administrator.
Otherwise, select Manually assign toolbox and system/system group
authorizations.
6. Select HP IO All Tools.
7. Select CMS.
8. Click OK.
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Configuring resources
Selecting the IO console in HP SIM
After installing IO, a member of the HPIO_Administrators Windows group can log in
to the IO console through HP SIM. HPIO_Administrators can then set up resources to
allow provisioning. To log in to the IO console, in HP SIM select Tools Insight
Orchestration.
The IO console initially displays the Home tab with summary information.
Note
When IO is not launched from HP SIM, allow blocked content to be displayed by
clicking in the yellow bar near the top of the screen.
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The IO console displays the following tabs:
Home — Displays an overview of IO operations, providing statistics, resource
usage, and links to access IO tasks
Templates — Displays all of the available templates and enables you to view
details about a template, edit a template, create a new template, delete a
template, submit a template for provisioning, and assign users to a template
Requests — Displays a list of user-generated requests and enables you to review
request history, approve or reject requests, cancel requests, review details about
a request or service, and continue a request
Services — Displays a list of active services and enables you to view details
about a service, add storage and servers to a service, activate or deactivate
servers, modify lease periods, and delete a service
Servers — Displays a list of available server resources and enables you to view
server details, manage server resources, create new server pools, and manage
the users of a server pool
Storage — Displays a list of available storage resources and enables you to
view storage details and manage storage resources
Users — Displays a list of current users, the resources assigned to each user, user
login status, and user roles
Networks — Displays the available networks and enables you to configure these
networks
Software — Enables you to view all software and annotate available server
deployment folders
Calendar — Enables you to search for and view utilization information for users,
services, and templates and graphically displays usage and conflicts
The HPIO Administrator manages infrastructure orchestration operations from the
console within HP SIM. This administrator can configure the following aspects of a
converged infrastructure:
Infrastructure orchestration users
Templates
Server pools
Storage pools
Networks
Provisioning software
Request management
Service management
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Setting up networks
Virtual networks must be defined in VMware or Microsoft Hyper-V managers. It is
recommended that a consistent set of networks be defined in VMware (or Hyper-V)
and VCEM. This assumes that one actual network configuration is used in the data
center for both virtual machine hosts and enclosures. These can be different if the
customer needs them to be.
IO identifies networks based on the name you enter. If you plan to add one of these
networks to Virtual Connect, then you must use an identical name so IO can
recognize the network as the same network.
To add a new network in a VMware infrastructure:
1. Open the VMware vSphere Client, enter the IP address and credentials of your
vCenter Server, and then click Login.
2. For each VMware ESX or ESXi virtual machine host in your ESX cluster, do the
following:
a. In the left navigation pane, select the virtual machine host.
b. Click the Configuration tab
c. Click Networking.
d. Click Add Networking.
e. For the connection type, select Virtual Machine, and then click Next.
f. Depending on the network configuration of your virtual machine host, either
select an existing virtual switch, or select Create a virtual switch. Click Next.
g. In the Port group properties, enter a name for your network in the Network
Label field, and depending on the network configuration of your virtual
machine host, enter a virtual LAN (VLAN) ID.
h. Click Next.
3. Click Finish.
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Viewing and configuring networks
Networks tab in the IO console in HP SIM
HP SIM, VCEM, and vCenter server provide network information to IO. Only
configured networks can be used for IO provisioning. For each network in IO,
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) or static address ranges must be
configured.
These settings are critical and are used by the IO controller to make allocation
decisions and configure servers on service infrastructure creation.
Three groups of configuration options can be edited in the console: Network
Settings, Domain Name System (DNS) settings, and Windows Settings.
Network settings include options to select Public or Private network, Shared or
Exclusive network, IPv4 or IPv6, Deployment Network (Yes or No) and Boot Network
(Yes or No), and areas to enter a network address, network mask, and default
gateway.
Field name Description
Network Address Enter the network address of the subnet.
Network Mask Enter the network mask of the subnet.
Default Gateway Enter the default gateway of the subnet.
Visibility Specify whether the subnet is Public (routable) or Private (nonroutable).
Sharing Specify whether this network is Shared or Exclusive. Exclusive networks can
only be allocated to a single infrastructure service deployment. If you select
a specific exclusive subnet, the template can only be instantiated once.
IP Version Specify whether this network is an IPv4 or IPv6 network.
Deployment Network Select [Yes] or [No] to specify whether this subnet is a deployment network.
Boot Network Select [Yes] or [No] to specify whether this subnet is a Preboot Execution
Environment (PXE) boot network.
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The following information can be configured in the DNS and Windows Settings
sections of the IO console:
DNS domain
DNS servers
DNS search suffixes
Microsoft domain (workgroup or domain)
Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS) Servers
Number of DHCP addresses available in the network or range of static
addresses
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Configuring Virtual Connect
IO requires a Virtual Connect Domain Group. A Virtual Connect domain
(VC Domain) consists of an enclosure and a set of associated modules and server
blades that are managed together by a single instance of HP Virtual Connect
Manager. The VC Domain contains specified networks, server profiles, and user
accounts that simplify the setup and administration of server connections.
Establishing a VC Domain enables administrators to upgrade, replace, or move
servers within an enclosure without changes being visible to the external LAN or
SAN environments.
VCEM collects unassigned server profiles at the VC Domain Group level.
An administrator can move and copy profiles within a domain and domains within a
VC Domain Group or a collection of VC Domains. From the VC Domain Groups
page, the administrator can perform the following actions:
Create a VC Domain Group
Update a VC Domain Group configuration
Delete a VC Domain from a VC Domain Group
To manage multiple-enclosure VC Domains in VCEM, the following steps must be
performed before creating a VC Domain Group or adding a VC Domain to a
VC Domain Group:
1. Log in to Virtual Connect Manager.
2. Find and import a local enclosure, and then select the appropriate Double-dense
option.
3. Skip the Network and Fibre Channel configuration wizards, and then navigate
directly to the VC Domain user interface.
4. Find and import the necessary remote enclosures in the correct order through
Virtual Connect Manager.
5. Go to HP SIM and perform a manual discovery on the Onboard Administrator
IP address of all released VC Domain enclosures.
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To create a VC Domain Group:
1. Click New.
Note
If the enclosures related to the selected VC Domains are not licensed for VCEM,
then the License page displays below the VC Domain Group list. Otherwise, the
Create VC Domain Group displays below the VC Domain Group list.
2. Enter the user name and password for each VC Domain. Ensure that you provide
VC Domain credentials will full privileges. VC Domains display as:
Unconfigured domains, which display in the System Name column with the
unassigned name, VCD_name
Configured domains, which display in the System Name column with their
previously assigned name
3. Enter the user name and password for the Onboard Administrator of each
unconfigured VC Domain. Ensure that you provide the Onboard Administrator
credentials with full privileges if the Virtual Connect Module is not configured.
Note
In some cases you might want to overwrite the existing VC Domain configuration
for selected VC Domains. To enable this action, select Existing VC Domain
configuration settings for selected VC Domains without server profiles and those
domains will be overridden by the selected base VC Domain configuration
defined for the VC Domain Group. VCEM validates that the selected VC Domain
configurations match the VC Domain Group configuration. VC Domains that are
already configured and have server profiles are not affected.
4. Enter the VC Domain Group name in the VC Domain Group Name field. Valid
VC Domain Group names can have alphanumeric characters, hyphens (-), and
underscores (_), but they cannot exceed 64 characters.
5. From the “Configuration based on the VC Domain” list, select the VC Domain
configuration on which the new VC Domain Group is to be based. The
Configuration VC Domain list contains only configured VC Domains.
6. From the Select Serial Number type list, select whether the serial number type is
a logical serial number or a factory default.
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7. From the Select MAC range type list, select whether the media access control
(MAC) address range type is VCEM-defined, user-defined, or factory-default. You
can only select the user-defined option for the MAC range type if a MAC custom
range is defined.
8. From the Select WWN range type list, select whether the WorldWide Name
(WWN) address range type is VCEM-defined, user-defined, or factory-default.
You can only select the user-defined option for the WWN range type if a WWN
custom range is defined.
9. Click OK. A message displays to indicate that VCEM is executing the request.
Note
Refer to the HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager User Guide for more
Information.
10. Click OK to go to the Jobs page and monitor the job progress.
Note
After creating a VC Domain Group, from the HP SIM Users and Authorizations
page, select the user authorization privileges for that VC Domain Group.
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Creating SAN-backed storage
SAN-backed storage is required for physical provisioning.
The first step in creating SAN-backed storage is verifying that target enclosures have
been successfully discovered by HP SIM. Then you create a VC Domain Group that
includes the target enclosures in VCEM. Lastly, you must refresh HP Insight Dynamics
(HP SIM) to synchronize it with VCEM. To refresh:
1. Using HP SIM, select, Tools Logical Servers Refresh. The Refresh Server
Resource Information page displays.
2. Select Refresh of Virtual Connect Resources and Refresh Storage Pool Entries,
and then click Refresh.
Storage in a Virtual Connect environment is often configured in SANs that are
accessed through Fibre Channel connections. Using SAN storage has many
advantages, including enabling a system to seamlessly fail over from one server
blade to another in the case of a failure.
Insight Dynamics enables the storage administrator to predefine storage in
anticipation of its need. These storage definitions are defined in the context of a
storage pool. Each portability group contains one predefined storage pool. The
administrator can create, manage, and modify storage pool entries using the Modify
Logical Server Storage Pools menu selection to display the Manage Storage Pool
screen. A storage pool entry can be also created during the creation of a logical
server by inserting the newly created storage entry into the storage pool.
Insight Dynamics allocates enough server WWNs so that each logical server that
shares a storage definition is assigned a unique server WWN. The number of
allocated server WWNs is determined by the Maximum Number of Sharers value.
This allocation is useful in a clustered environment in which each system within the
cluster has access to the same storage volumes.
Note
Any system that shares storage should have a shared distributed lock
management system in place to coordinate the LUN access.
A logical server can be associated with multiple storage pool entries. Multiple logical
servers can share the same storage pool entry.
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IO uses the tags selected from the Tag List in the Storage Pool Entry section to match
the logical disk tags provided in the template designer. If the administrator specifies
logical disk tags in the template design, only volumes with the exact tags are
allocated. If the administrator does not provide logical disk tag information, the
allocation process ignores the storage volume tags.
Insight Dynamics infrastructure orchestration fully supports the HP Virtual Connect
Flex-FC configuration and defaults to that configuration for storage.
IO requires that you separate the boot disk storage pool entry, private data disk
storage pool entry, and shared data disk storage pool entry.
Important
! Storage pool entries can be saved without entering the Volume Path Settings;
however, it you must ensure that these entries are modified after receiving the
LUN information from the SAN administrator.
HP recommends using WWN-based SAN switch zoning for c-Class server blades
with Virtual Connect.
Configuring IO storage management
Storage Pool in the IO console
IO integrates with several distinct approaches to storage management. The overall
system can be used with any or all of the approaches combined.
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This approach has the advantage of still enabling you to separate the boot and data
storage visibility to the server during operating system provisioning without requiring
any access to the existing SAN management interfaces.
Important
! This static approach to SAN volume automation is limited to servers managed by
Virtual Connect.
“Dynamic” SAN volume automation by means of LUN masking
The second approach is called Dynamic SAN volume automation by means of LUN
masking. In this approach, SAN volumes are pre-created but are not yet masked to
one or more initiator WWNs. Zoning must be preconfigured.
In this approach, the SAN volumes are made available within the Virtualization
Manager storage pool as storage pool entries. At the time of service creation, IO
selects one storage pool entry. That storage pool entry must fully match the storage
requirements for the logical server in terms of the number SAN volumes, size, RAID
level, and optionally, a set of one or more tags.
Unlike the Flex-FC approach, in the dynamic approach IO can perform automatic
LUN masking and host mode assignment. This enables IO to separate the visibility of
boot and data storage during operating system provisioning. It also allows a single
storage pool entry to be reused across different logical servers because the host
mode can also be set dynamically based on logical server requirements.
This approach has the advantage of being supported on servers managed with
Virtual Connect and servers not managed with Virtual Connect.
This dynamic approach requires that a SAN administrator be willing to grant
restricted access to the disk array management interface for performing the SAN
volume inventory and LUN masking operations. Storage administrators can grant
these capabilities to specific server administrators, or to groups of administrators, by
using the Storage Provisioning Manager (SPM). SPM enables the storage
administrator to create catalog entries representing the preprovisioned SAN volumes
and to have granular control over operations (some administrators might support
LUN masking and changing host mode). This approach provides more granular
control than merely giving the server administrator the Admin password to the
storage array.
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Reserving and allocating storage resources
An important step in the service creation process involves reservation and allocation
phases for all resources required by the service template. Use the following approach
to perform storage reservation and allocation. The resource set that is being
analyzed is always the set of storage pool entries defined within Virtualization
Manager.
1. Seek a storage pool entry (SPE) that contains a fully matched boot disk per the
logical server boot disk definition.
If found, seek one or more additional SPEs that fully match the logical server
data disk definitions.
If not found, pause the request, and raise an email alert (using an
Operations Orchestration workflow) requesting manual storage provisioning
for the data disks.
2. If the boot disk reservation could not be satisfied, fall back to seeking a single
SPE that fully matches both the logical server boot disk and data disk
requirements.
3. If the boot disk reservation still cannot be satisfied, fall back to seeking a single
SPE that fully matches the logical server boot disk definition.
If found, pause the request, and raise an email alert requesting manual
storage provisioning for the data disks.
4. If the boot disk reservation still cannot be satisfied, pause the request, and raise
an email alert requesting manual storage provisioning for the boot disk.
The storage pool entries used for the preceding approach are defined with
Virtualization Manager using the logical server storage pool interface. Storage pool
entries can be defined and fulfilled by a storage administrator who provides
appropriate details after he has created, presented, and zoned the SAN storage
volumes.
Alternatively, HP provides the SPM to enable the storage administrator to define a
catalog of pre-presented storage. Storage pool entries can be matched against
catalog entries without requiring human intervention, or requests can be viewed in
the SPM interface and manually fulfilled.
Important
! If dynamic SAN volume allocation automation is used, then authorizations for the
SPM catalog entries must allow LUN masking and hostmode changes.
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Configuring server pools
Servers tab in the IO console
The Servers tab in the IO console displays the available server pools. A server pool
is a set of resources that you can view and use when creating new infrastructure
services. You can also view the current utilization of the resources in the pool and
which resources are still available for use.
Characteristics of IO server pools include:
Pools are used to manage the sharing and allocation of compute resources.
Pools are collections of server blades and virtual machine hosts with associated
networks and storage.
Users are assigned access to one or more pools.
Provisioning requests are fulfilled from available resources from a user pool.
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HPIO_Users use IO server pools to submit requests to create new infrastructure
services or add to existing infrastructure services. Before initiating a request for the
first time, a new server pool must be created and users must be assigned to it.
When IO is started for the first time, two pools are automatically generated:
Unassigned pool — Contains all resources previously discovered by Insight
Dynamics
Maintenance pool — Contains resources that have failed
Important
! These pools are available only to users in the HPIO_Administrators group, and
they cannot be used for infrastructure service creation.
IO automatically populates the Unassigned pool after HP SIM has identified the
resource installation. Physical resources are only available after a VC Domain Group
is correctly created in VCEM. IO updates the information each hour. After available
resources are updated, the administrator can click Refresh to see these updates
immediately.
Creating a server pool
To create a new server pool, you must configure the following details:
Pool name
List of servers
Pool users
To create a server pool:
1. In the IO console Servers tab, click Create Pool. The Create Server Pool page
displays.
2. In the Pool name field, enter a name for the new server pool.
3. In the Notes section, enter any information relevant to the new server pool.
4. From the Select Servers From list, select a resource pool.
5. Select one or more servers for the pool:
a. Select a server in the Servers in New Pool section.
b. Click the right-facing arrow. This places the selected server in the Selected
Servers section, assigning the server to the new pool.
6. Continue to select servers, using the arrows to adjust the servers assigned to the
pool.
7. Click Save.
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Modifying or deleting a server pool
To modify a server pool:
1. In the IO console Servers tab, click Modify Pool. The Edit Server Pool page
displays.
2. In the Notes section, edit or add information relevant to this server pool.
3. From the Select Servers From list, select a resource from which to select servers
for the new pool.
4. To add servers, select a server in the Servers in New Pool section, click the right
arrow to assign it to the pool, and click Save.
To delete a server pool:
1. In the IO console Servers tab, select the server pool you want to delete.
2. Click Delete. The Delete Pool dialog displays.
3. Click OK to delete the pool or Cancel to close the dialog without deleting the
pool.
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Configuring software
Software tab in IO console
The IO console Software tab enables you to view and annotate available Insight
Dynamics infrastructure orchestration software. This software comes from three
different sources:
Virtual machine management software comes from creating virtual machine
templates on the virtual machine hosts managed by the Central Management
Server (CMS). Virtual machine template attributes are set during template
creation, and you can only view these attributes in the IO console.
VMware templates contain the guest operating system image, applications, and
specific virtual machine configurations.
Server deployment software, such as Insight Control server deployment software,
displays when you create a job folder on the deployment server managed by
this CMS. Each job folder can contain an ordered list of one or more
deployment jobs or scripts. When you provision a server with deployment
software, all jobs in the folder are run against the server, in sequence. You can
view and edit deployment software attributes in the IO console Software tab.
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All top-level deployment folders are listed as software, even if that folder contains no
deployment jobs or scripts or if the folder contains many subfolders with many jobs.
As a best practice, you should only use the IO console Software tab to edit or
configure the folders that will be used as server-deployment software. The IO console
Software tab enables you to view and annotate the available server deployment
software folders.
Software details include:
Software name — Name of the server
Notes — Description of the software
Disk Size field — Recommended disk size for servers deployed with this software
OS Type list — Operating system for the selected software
Architecture — Architecture type
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Configuring provisioning
IO extends Insight Dynamics to provide rapid provisioning and repurposing of
infrastructure services from shared resource pools using a self-service portal. Insight
Dynamics enables both virtual and physical provisioning. Configuration occurs in the
IO console (Software tab) and at the deployment platform.
Configuring virtual provisioning
Virtual provisioning requires a correctly configured and licensed virtual machine host
that is discovered and visible in HP SIM. Either VMware ESX or Microsoft Hyper-V
can be used on the virtual machine host.
For virtual logical server provisioning to perform correctly, IO limits the number of
virtual logical servers that are sent concurrently to hypervisors for provisioning. The
limit is determined by the value of the [Link] attribute in the
[Link] file located in the c:\Program Files\HP\Insight Orchestration\conf
directory.
The default value for [Link] for both ESX and Hyper-V is 10.
If this value is exceeded, then virtual logical server provisioning might fail
unexpectedly.
If a mixed hypervisor environment is used, then the value of
[Link] must be set to the minimum of all the hypervisor
values in the environment.
For each virtual logical server, IO supports up to 14 private disks or 15 shared disks.
When it is necessary to exclude disks on a VMHost from being considered as a data
store for a virtual machine, edit the [Link] file to change the
[Link] attribute. Refer to the HP IO user guide for more information.
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Creating virtual machine templates
For IO 6.0 or later, Insight Control virtual machine management templates are no
longer used for ESX hosts. IO uses VMware templates as deployment targets for ESX.
Information came from IO integration with VMware vCenter server.
Note
To create VMware templates, refer to “Familiarizing yourself with ESX server and
the task Create golden master (template) virtual disks” in the Administration
Guide for VMware ESX Server.
IO uses a Hyper-V virtual machine as the source material for a virtual machine
template without any additional steps. However, to provision recoverable logical
servers, deploy your Hyper-V virtual machine host in a Windows cluster. For more
information, see your Windows documentation.
Important
! When using Hyper-V, do not use a Hyper-V virtual machine template created
from a virtual machine with snapshot functionality. Virtual machine templates
created from a virtual machine with snapshot, do not display on the Software tab
of the IO console, preventing the successful creation of an IO template.
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To use HP SIM to create virtual machine templates from virtual machines:
1. Power off the virtual machine you want to use in the virtual machine template. It
is good practice to cleanly power off the virtual machine by accessing the virtual
machine and performing an operating system shutdown rather than using a
hypervisor power-off command.
If the virtual machine is in a suspended state when you create the template,
provisioning will fail during customization with an error message of “VM must be
powered off for customization.”
2. Click Deploy Virtual Machine Templates Create Virtual Machine
Template. The Step 1: Select Source Virtual Machine screen displays.
3. Select a virtual machine from the list, and then click Next. The Step 2: Select VM
Template Repository Host screen displays.
4. Select the host that will receive the new virtual machine template, and then click
Next. The Step 3: Specify the template Name and select VM Template
Repository Folder screen displays.
5. In Template Name field, enter a name for the template. Specify a location for
the template.
6. To store the virtual machine template, in the target folder, select Browse, and
then select a virtual machine host data store folder.
7. Click Next. The Step 4: Confirm Details screen displays.
8. Click Run Now. The task results display.
Note
Virtual machine template creation can take from five minutes up to 30 minutes to
complete.
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ESX virtual machine templates
VI Client template operations
A VMware template is a master copy of a virtual machine used to create and
provision new virtual machines. This template is an image that typically includes a
guest operating system, a set of applications, and a specific virtual machine
configuration.
When cloning a virtual machine to a template, the virtual machine can either be
powered on or powered off. When converting a virtual machine to a template, the
virtual machine must be powered off.
Templates can be created and configured from the vCenter server, under the VMs
and Templates inventory view. To deploy a virtual machine, provide information such
as the virtual machine name, inventory location, host, datastore, and guest operating
system customization data. For Windows customization, sysprep is required.
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Configuring physical provisioning
IO supports the following server deployment platforms for physical provisioning:
Insight Control server deployment
Ignite UX
HP Server Automation
During the IO installation, the host IP address and credentials must be entered for the
deployment servers used by IO. If a deployment server needs to be added after IO is
installed, the following commands can be used on the CMS:
Insight Control server deployment:
mxnodesecurity –a –p dsc_rdp –c username:password –n <ipaddress
of server deployment server>
Ignite UX:
mxnodesecurity –a –p dsc_ignite –c username:password –n
<ipaddress of Ignite server>
HP Server Automation:
mxnodesecurity –a –p dsc_sas –c username:password –n <ipaddress
of HP Server Automation server>
For physical provisioning to perform correctly, you must limit the number of concurrent
physical logical server provisionings. Set the value of the
[Link] attribute in the [Link] file to 10.
Example
# ESX include ESX3 and ESX4
[Link] = 10
# Hyper-V
[Link] = 5
# Physical
[Link] = 10
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Physical provisioning requires:
Available VC Domain Groups on VCEM
Configuring server deployment platforms, including Insight Control server
deployment, Ignite-UX, or HP Server Automation, and creating job folders
Creating SAN-backed storage
Configuring server deployment platforms for physical provisioning
IO supports HP Server Automation, Insight Control server deployment, and Ignite-UX
version C.7.9.260 or later for physical provisioning.
Configuring for HP Server Automation
Server Automation software provides the depth and breadth of capabilities you need
to manage day-to-day IT operations across servers and applications. This enterprise
software provides automation capabilities for operating system and application
provisioning, patching, configuration management, audit and compliance, reporting,
and a host of other IT operations. Server Automation has helped HP customers
address their security and compliance management, data center consolidation, and
virtualization initiatives, while simultaneously improving their operational efficiencies
and responsiveness to change.
Server Automation supports a distributed architecture that enables global scalability.
It can manage tens of thousands of servers in different subnets in data centers
around the world.
Server Automation manages servers running Windows, Linux, VMware, and various
UNIX operating systems, including HP-UX 11i, across hardware from a multitude of
vendors. Its main features when managing an HP BladeSystem environment are
automatic baselining of the hardware and software configurations, policy-based
provisioning, and application-level auditing and remediation.
Although Insight Control features are extensive, using Insight Control in conjunction
with Server Automation can reduce the time and effort spent managing BladeSystem
servers and associated workloads. Server Automation application and configuration
features give more control over the consistency of software deployment and
configuration, resulting in fewer errors. The auditing and compliance features make it
easy to improve compliance with corporate security guidelines.
With Server Automation and Insight Control, IT staff can better manage end-to-end
business service with complete infrastructure control.
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Configuring Insight Control server deployment
Jobs pane in the Insight Control server deployment console
You must create a top-level Insight Control server deployment job folder for each
operating system that IO will use to deploy physical servers.
To add computers to the domain during provisioning, configure the Insight Control
server deployment domain authorization using Tools Options Domain Accounts
to allow these additions.
Enclosures are discovered by HP SIM through the HP integrated Lights-Out (iLO)
IP address of the enclosure. You must use the iLO credentials of the Onboard
Administrator enclosure as the Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM)
credentials.
Verify that the default Erase ProLiant Hardware job does not contain a script that exits
the job without erasing the hardware. According to best practices, the last step of the
job should be changed from restart to shut down, and only the Wipe Disk task
should be included in the job.
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Configuring for Ignite-UX
The Ignite server must have the Network File System (NFS) configured and the tftp
and bootps services enabled in /etc/[Link].
To set up NFS and export the directories that Ignite needs, run the
/opt/ignite/lbin/setup_server –n command.
To enable tftp and bootps services, edit /etc/inetd/conf to uncomment the "tftp" and
"bootps" lines. Then run the inetd –c command.
Depending on the client being installed, for example, if it has a graphics card or
keyboard attached, it may prompt you at the console for the keyboard language. To
avoid this, edit /var/opt/ignite/[Link] by adding the following line:
kdblang="PS2_DIN_US_English"
Manual clean-up process
Logical server renamed
If an IO physical server deployment fails or IO delete service request fails, you must
perform a manual cleanup process to fully erase the operating system from the boot
disks, detach the blade from the storage, and return the blade to an IO server pool
for a future provisioning request. With those failures, the server blade is moved to the
IO Maintenance pool and the logical server is renamed with the prefix “Clean-me-”.
The server profile and boot disk are preserved, enabling an administrator to
determine the cause of the failure and perform any required maintenance before
returning the server blade to a user pool. Manual clean-up of the failed server blade
depends on the deployment server used to provision it.
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Clean-up instructions, if using Insight Control server deployment.
1. Move the server blade in to the IO Maintenance pool (if not done so).
2. Power on the server blade.
3. Make sure that the attached boot LUN erases.
You can use either the Erase ProLiant ML/DL/BL Array Configuration (LinuxPE)
job from server deployment console or use RBSU Advanced Options
Erase Book Disk.
4. Power off the server blade.
5. Manually delete the server blade from Insight Control server deployment
6. Deactivate the associated logical server by using the HP SIM (Insight Dynamics)
menu: Tools Logical Servers Deactivate.
7. After the associated logical server is inactive, delete using HP SIM (Insight
Dynamics) menu: Delete Delete Logical Server. Click Yes to proceed with the
operation.
Note
Do not delete the Unmanage Logical Server. Doing so will cause the logical
server storage pool entry to be modified so as to contain new WWNs without
regard to presentation or zoning.
8. Verify in VCEM the VC profile associated with the failed server blade exists.
Unassign and delete the VC profile from VCEM.
9. Move the server blade out of the IO Maintenance pool.
In the IO console (accessed from HP SIM), select the original server blade pool,
and click Modify.
Move the failed server from the IO Maintenance Pool back to server blade pool,
and then save the pool.
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Other possible clean-up situations or procedures
Failure during virtual machine deletion leaves active but unpowered logical
server. The deletion of a virtual machine requires that it be registered; therefore,
part of the delete operation is to register the virtual machine.
The Report Logical Server Job Status... screen shows the progression of job
detail messages for the delete operation. If a virtual machine failure occurs for
any reason during the interval between registration and actual deletion, when
the virtual machine is restarted, logical server management sees a registered
virtual machine and marks the associated logical server as active.
After the failure, the delete job appears to be incomplete, and the logical server
is active, but not powered on.
Suggested action:
1. Refresh Insight Control virtual machine management (VMM) server
resources using the Tools Logical Servers Refresh... menu
selection.
2. Deactivate the logical server using the Tools Logical Servers
Deactivate... menu selection.
3. Repeat the delete operation using the Delete Delete Logical Server...
menu selection.
Deactivate or move logical servers before replacing blade.
Before you replace a blade in an enclosure that is currently hosting a
logical server, move or deactivate any logical servers that are active on the
blade. After the new blade has been installed, discovered, and licensed,
perform the Tools Logical Servers Refresh... menu selection for
Virtual Connect server resources. Then reactivate the logical servers on the
blade or move them back from the location to which they have been moved.
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Learning check
1. What is a template in IO?
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2. IO stores user login names and passwords in its database.
True
False
3. Which tasks can be done by members of HPIO_Architects? (Select all that
apply.)
a. Can configure networks and pools
b. Grant users access to existing resources
c. Can create, modify, and publish templates
d. Can use the IO Designer
4. Where are network resources defined? (Select all that apply.)
a. VMware or Hyper-V managers
b. VCEM
c. Onboard Administrator
d. Options tab in HP SIM
5. Virtual machine management (VMM) templates are used for ESX hosts in IO 6.
True
False
6. List at least two supported server deployment platforms for IO.
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Module
Objectives
0B
After completing this module, you should be able to:
Describe the Operations Orchestration Studio
Describe the IO Designer tool
List the three IO user interfaces and their uses
Describe the user request lifecycle
Identify IO user tasks
Explain how to create and manage workflows
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HP Operations Orchestration Studio
1B
HP Operations Orchestration Studio
HP Operations Orchestration (OO) Studio is install part of HP Matrix OE (Matrix
OEs). The OO Studio console can be launch from START All Programs Hewlett-
Packard Operations Orchestration HP Operations Orchestration Studio.
Default username is admin and it uses the default password of the
Administrator account of the Windows Server.
The use of Operations Orchestration Studio is the library defines the process flow of
infrastructure orchestration and other relevant components integration.
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Example of OO Studio Library
7B
Example of OO Studio Library
Customize Operations Orchestration
8B
Administrators can create custom workflow processes and attach them to the
infrastructure service templates. IO would the use the OO workflow each time a
specific operation is invoked. Template architects can associate one or more OO
workflows with a particular template.
OO requirements
9B
OO requirements include:
SMTP server
IO uses OO during the execution of IO requests notifying users about the
progress of IO processes including approval, manual operating system
deployment, manual storage provisioning, disk scrubbing, storage removal, and
notifications
To send these notifications, you must configure OO workflows to send email
(through SMTP server)
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Infrastructure orchestration provisioning – HP IO Designer
10B
HP IO Designer enables an architect to plan and design multi-server, multi-tier
infrastructure using a drag-and-drop interface. The infrastructure can include virtual
servers, blades, and physical servers.
IO users can then provision the services using the IO templates.
General architectural tasks include:
Designing both simple and multi-tier, multi-node service templates
Capturing requirements for server, storage, and networks
Publishing templates to the Self-Service Portal for service-creation
Specifying costs and resources to support tracking and reporting of resources
Creating an IO template
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Resource
Components
1. Drag
components
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2. Connect
components
together
IO Designer – IO Template design console
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added
together
Minimum or
3. Set maximum
resource cluster size
configuration
requirements
Recover on
server failure
Example of Server Group Configuration
Storage may be
shared across
servers
Networks can
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app or public
Boot volumes
specify image to
load
Example of template with multiple servers and storage volumes. Validation completed successfully.
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Validation rules check templates for errors. The designer also includes cost tracking
for components and reporting capabilities for resource requirements.
A typical template provisioning exercise would consist of the following steps. This
example uses a template (best-practice model) for an e-shopping application. After a
template is designed and approved by the architect, it is published into the self-
service portal where it can be requested by a user.
The provisioning process involves tiers of servers, and for each tier you need to
define aspects such as:
The types of servers (physical or virtual)
The virtualization platform (VMware or Microsoft Hyper-V)
The operating system, boot disk size, and configuration (minimum number of
processor cores, minimum RAM required, and so on)
Which networks each server is attached to
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To use provisioning functionality:
1. Drag components from the Components pane onto the workspace.
The user can select a resource from the components pane. You can drill down
into the components of the pools that are displayed.
2. Connect components together.
3. Set resource configuration requirements such as the total cost per server,
minimum or maximum cluster size, and whether to automatically recover if a
server failure occurs.
When using the provisioning tool, keep in mind the following items:
Networks can be internal to the application or public.
Boot volumes specify the image to load.
Storage can be shared across servers.
The provisioning tool maintains a catalog of services, which display on the IO
Templates tab. When you create a service instance, be sure to specify lease end
dates to protect against stale virtual machines and such.
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Optimize infrastructure confidently
1B
Capacity planning information provided through Matrix OEs
HP Matrix OE solutions have built-in capacity planning and rebalancing tools. It
helps to improve server consolidation ratios, cut server consolidation time down from
months to days, adjust resources in seconds or minutes easily, and manages both
physical and logical servers in the same way.
Enhancements for capacity planning capabilities include:
Advanced consolidation reports with cost allocation-ready data
Hardware awareness, enabling the use of benchmark data to help with capacity
planning analysis
Example
Hardware upgrades from Gx to G6 servers
Constraint visibility to help analyze utilization by department, location, hardware
type, and so on (leverages HP Systems Insight Manager, or HP SIM)
VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) cluster awareness for ProLiant
nodes
Agentless data collection for Linux (x86 and Integrity) for the processor, memory,
network, and disk
Note
Power information will continue to come from the Insight Control power
management functionality using HP integrated Lights-Out (iLO) for HP servers for
power-related capacity planning.
Support for ProLiant nodes running Citrix Xen
Expanded report choices
Scalability to collect data from more than 1,500 managed nodes
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Continuously optimize resource usage and power
12B
Capacity planning with HP Labs technology
Capacity planning enables day-to-day planning based on unique HP Labs
technology. With this technology, you can optimize for utilization, maximize energy
efficiency, and optimize for performance.
Smart Solver technology calculates the best fit consolidation or rebalancing.
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Capacity planning functionality overview
39B
Capacity Advisor Profile Viewer screen
HP Matrix OE is the most advanced real-time capacity planning tool in the industry.
It enables you to continuously analyze server capacity and power use. It collects and
analyzes millions of historical data points from virtual and physical resources. Then,
using new Smart Solver technology developed by HP Labs, it can show you the best
fit for the workloads, reducing the number of physical servers needed to support
those workloads.
With its five-star capacity rating system, it takes the tedious research and guesswork
out of traditional capacity planning. The interface enables you to drag a logical
server and instantly see if it can be moved to the selected target server.
And with energy usage awareness built in, based on more than a thousand data
points per server per day, administrators can quickly make decisions to make their
data center more energy-efficient. They can also create inventories and reports to aid
in decision making.
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Examples of capacity planning reports
72B
Peak Summary Report
Consolidation Candidate Report
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Cost allocation report
Adjust resources for demanding applications
14B
HP Logical capability offers the same mobility and flexibility to physical blade servers
you are used to from virtual machines—we call that logical server capability. Logical
server capability enables physical and virtual server identities to be managed as one
and to be easily provisioned and freely moved. This new functionality will leverage
the HP BladeSystem and Virtual Connect technologies.
Logical servers can be easily applied to a physical blade server or a virtual machine.
Deactivated logical servers can be stored in templates, which are ready to go when
they are needed again.
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Logical server management
41B
Logical servers move task
Logical servers can be managed through an easy to use interface, which allows you
to create them, copy them, activate them, de-activate them, edit them, migrate them,
and so forth.
The activation time required is basically the boot time.
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Recovery management architectural diagram
45B
Insight Recovery configuration example
The basic unit of Matrix OEs recovery management is a Recovery Group. A Recovery
Group consists of a logical server and a Replication Group, which is a set of disks
configured for replication. A typical site consists of one or more Recovery Groups.
The preceding Matrix OEs recovery diagram shows how Continuous Access EVA
(storage replication) is the software piece that ties the two sites together and allows
for failover and failback between the sites. The diagram shows primary and recovery
sites and the main hardware and software components of an Insight Recovery
solution.
At each site, the Central Management Server (CMS) hosts HP SIM and a Matrix OEs
instance. In addition to the CMS, the other hardware components include the storage
management server (which runs Command View EVA), the HP ProLiant servers (in this
example, HP BladeSystem c-Class blade enclosures), and the StorageWorks EVA
storage arrays.
Continuous Access EVA in synchronous mode is used for storage replication for both
planned and unplanned events. Because of latency requirements for Continuous
Access EVA synchronous replication, the distance between sites is generally limited to
a metropolitan area.
Note
For more information about the storage recovery solution, refer to the Continuous
Access EVA Implementation Guide.
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Streamlined storage pool management
16B
Storage Provisioning with HP Matrix OE
Storage Provisioning Manager provides a service orientation to storage
management. It performs automated provisioning of HP storage products within the
Matrix environments. Storage resources can be populated into a storage catalog,
categorized according to intended use, and then provisioned by matching storage
needs to the available resources. Storage administrators no longer have to manually
respond to users’ requests. They now manage the policies and allow automation to
act.
It introduces a common storage provisioning interface for both the server and storage
administrators. It provides a consistent view of storage pools, making it easier for
server admin to request storage and populate storage pools, while allowing the
storage admin to retain control of process and permissions. Server administrators
have increased visibility to changes initiated by storage administrators.
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HP Storage with BladeSystem Matrix
46B
Storage support with HP Matrix OE
6.0 and earlier provided “boot from san” support for Fibre Channel environments
(any FC-san compliant array, not limited to HP offerings). Capabilities were for boot
and data storage. Integrated support for disaster recovery is offered for XP arrays for
continental/metro distances, and for EVA arrays for metro distances—through
StorageWorks CLX support and integration with continuous access replication
software. For non-XP or EVA arrays, the “storage decoupling” feature for recovery
allows for manual connection of replicated storage logical unit numbers (LUNs) at the
recovery site to the recovered logical servers. This is supported for any FC-SAN
compliant array.
6.1 introduces support for iSCSI support for VMware and Hyper-V boot and data
storage on the P4300 and P4500 G2 SAN storage solutions, as well as the
MSA2000i storage solution. Also, limited NetApp storage environments are
supported, as described in the Matrix compatibility guide.
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Improves speed and capability of Matrix deployments:
Consistent and predictable storage pool content management/visibility
Enables new capabilities
Adjust storage operating system host mode
LUN masking
Server/Storage Administrator Interaction Model
48B
OS/
apps
• Selected storage associated with logical
Logical Server
server storage pool entry (associated
VC MAC/W WN
now or later with a logical server)
• Logical server provisioning • Storage updated as logical server activates,
• Server & application storage needs identified migrates, or needs change
• Storage catalog inventory browsed for storage • Storage reused as desired (e.g., new
fitting the needs logical server using storage pool entry) and
• Storage selected to fill needs marked free in catalog when no longer
Server needed
Management
Storage
Requests
Storage Service
• Storage Requests
• Storage Inventory
Catalog Groups • Storage use policies
Boot SQL Volumes SharePoint
Volumes Volumes
• Definition of storage uses
• Server needs for storage change
• Pre-provisioned storage, designed for a purpose
• Storage classified (tagged) by intended use • Storage aligned to updated needs
• Allowed automation
• Access and automation security set
• Storage added to catalog inventory • Manual reconfiguration
• Also surface storage-initiated changes
Storage
Management
Interaction Model
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Storage tagging
49B
Tier 1
$8K/TB • Allocate cost effective
1
Database Tier storage for physical
workloads and now also
for VMs based on
2
$4K/TB required service levels
App Server Tier Tier 2
• Support for FC, NFS and
now iSCSI
3
Web Server Tier $1K/TB
Tier 3
Storage tagging
In addition to “storage tagging” for physical workloads, we offer now also virtual
machine (VM) storage tagging. That gives administrators and architects control to
which data stores VMs get provisioned. They can specify a specific data store or just
a tag that identifies storage characteristics (tier 1, tier 2, gold, silver, HA, iSCSI, and
so forth).
The benefit is that many customers do have multiple types and tiers of storage
connected to their VM hosts, so if a service being provisioned requires certain
storage for performance or resiliency or whatever, we can now make sure the VMs
go to the right place instead of just going to any available data store.
We now support Matrix iSCSI data stores for VMs, and the savings can be
significant. The result: you can automatically lower your storage costs: up to 50%
through storage tiering (just in capital expenditures (CAPEX), the savings can be 48%
alone).
Example
Storage tiering information:
For Storage tier 3 — HP StorageWorks P4500 G2 120TB MDL SAS Scalable
Capacity SAN Solution = $1,058 / TB – for tier 3
For Storage tier 2 — HP StorageWorks EVA 4400 – 10 TB 34000$ – basic
config, that is, with some more management $4K (including business copy)
For Storage tier 1 — HP StorageWorks XP
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IO users
50B
Infrastructure orchestration high-level diagram
IO provides operations for three types of users:
Architect — Uses the IO Designer (a graphical designer tool) to create, modify,
and publish simple and complex infrastructure templates.
Confers with the system administrator to develop and validate data center
requirements
Designs and validates templates
Specifies workflows at template execution points
Publishes templates
Administrator — Uses the IO console running in HP SIM to manage the overall
behavior of IO, including user management, resource pool management, and
self-service requests.
Receives IO requests and processes approvals
Performs provisioning management, which means this role is responsible for
providing resources that can be allocated to IO requests
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Maintains resource pools, which are pools of systems, including networking
and storage resources
Provides user access to resource pools
Manages templates and workflows
User — Uses the self-service portal to create infrastructure services from
templates. A user chooses from assigned resource pools and specifies the start
and end times of the infrastructure service. The user submits other requests for the
ongoing management of services by using the self-service portal.
Could be a team member from engineering, marketing, or sales
organizations, for example, who requires fully provisioned systems for a
limited duration
Needs systems for various usage activities such as testing, development,
and training
The various roles and activities of these different types of users are explored in this
module.
Other roles
17B
Besides the three types of IO users, other types of administrators, such as network
and storage area network (SAN) administrators, play a role in the configuration and
operation of infrastructure orchestration in the data center.
Storage Administrator
Maintains storage hardware
Administers the SAN configuration
Creates storage LUNs at the request of the HPIO Administrator
Network Administrator
Maintains address ranges, Domain Name Server (DNS) services, and other
network services
Provides network resources at the request of the HPIO Administrator
Workflow Designer
Confers with HPIO designers to develop workflow requirements
Uses HP Operations Orchestration to design and publish workflows that the
HPIO Architect can attach to execution points in a template
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IO terms and concepts
18B
Some important terms and concepts related to Matrix OEs infrastructure orchestration
include:
Allocation — The server, storage, and network resources (such as IP addresses)
assigned for a request, based on the criteria defined in the template, resource
pools assigned to the user, and the current reservations or allocations of
resources completed by Matrix OEs infrastructure orchestration.
Approval — A requirement for requests submitted by self-service users.
Approvals are given by an administrator, and they occur between the allocation
and provisioning phases of a service.
Infrastructure service — A running configuration of infrastructure resources that
is designed to run a business application such as a multitier web application.
Infrastructure resources include server blades, virtual machines, SAN disks,
networks, and IP addresses. An infrastructure service is also referred to as a
service or service instance.
Lease period — The duration, or lifetime, of an infrastructure service. The lease
period is set or changed by the user.
Provisioning — The process of creating a service from a template. Through the
IO self-service portal or the IO console, a user submits a request to create the
service. Then the IO controller searches its inventory, allocating the computing
resources to all logical resource definitions in the template.
Resource pools — Groupings of physical server blades and virtual machine
hosts managed by HP Matrix OEs. An administrator controls resource utilization
by allowing users access to one or more server pools.
A storage pool defines available logical unit numbers (LUN) used as boot or
data disks for physical servers.
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Request — Submitted by users to perform initial provisioning and ongoing
changes to the infrastructure. Users can monitor and cancel requests.
Administrators approve, reject, cancel, or continue user requests.
Users can submit the following types of requests:
Create an infrastructure service
Delete a service
Place servers on standby
Resume servers from standby
Update a service to add servers
Update a service to add storage
Change the lease period on a service
Template — A tool that specifies the requirements, or design, for an
infrastructure service in terms of server groups, networks, and storage. A
template can also define customization points that use HP Operations
Orchestration workflows to be executed during provisioning requests.
Workflow — A set of actions that execute customer-specific IT tasks. Workflows
are designed using Operations Orchestration, which can be launched from
Matrix OEs. You can use workflows to define integration with your IT processes,
including approvals, manual operating system deployment, manual storage
provisioning, and notifications.
You can also associate workflows with IO templates. These service-action
workflows can be executed before and after an associated request. They are
intended to perform actions specific to a template and the services created from
it.
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IO request lifecycle
2B
To better understand the role of each IO user and how they interact, it is helpful to
understand how the request lifecycle works. This section provides an overview of the
request lifecycle, and the next sections examine the roles of two of the IO users in
more detail.
IO request processing
19B
When a user creates a request, IO processes the request using a series of steps
defined in the associated template.
The Create Service operation automatically provisions an infrastructure based on the
specification in a service template using resources allocated from assigned pools.
(Some manual intervention by the HPIO Administrator might be required.) During a
Create Service operation, IO performs the following operations:
Validates the request
Allocates network and IP addresses
Allocates the servers (server blades or virtual machine hosts)
Allocates physical and virtual boot disks
Obtains approvals
Creates virtual machine or server blade profiles
Deploys the operating system and other software to the 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
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After successfully completing a Create Service operation, the provisioned IO
infrastructure service is available for the duration of the lease period, and you can
access the servers through the network.
A Create Service operation fails when:
Resources are not available to allocate to the service
The SAN administrator cannot create the disks
The IO administrator rejects the request
Create request flow example
20B
The following example provides an overview of how a Create request is initiated by
a user and processed in Matrix OEs infrastructure orchestration. In this example, a
user logs in to the IO portal, selects a template, and initiates a Create request. The
template specifies a single server, a boot disk to be manually provisioned, and a
data disk. The HPIO Administrator also participates in this example.
1. The user logs in to the IO portal at [Link] and
views the available templates. The user selects a template, and clicks Details.
Selecting an IO template
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2. The user examines the template, and if it is suitable, clicks Create Service.
Clicking the Create Service button
3. In the Create Service dialog, the user enters relevant information about the
service, such as:
The name you want to call this service
Your email address for notifications
A hostname completion string (this is added to the hostname defined by the
template)
The resource pool from which servers, networks, and storage are to be
allocated
The lease period
When the details are complete, the user clicks Submit.
Submitting service details
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4. In the confirmation message box, the user clicks Ok.
Confirming the service information
5. The HPIO Administrator is notified through email that a create request is
pending and requires provisioning. The administrator then creates a boot disk in
the logical server storage pool. The properties to use when creating the disk are
specified in the email.
Viewing an email message for the HPIO Administrator
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6. The HPIO Administrator logs in to the IO console by means of HP SIM and clicks
the Request tab to view the paused request. The details for the request indicate
why it is paused and what the appropriate administrator actions are.
Viewing the IO request status
7. After creating the storage pool entry, the administrator views the request in an
HTML viewer and clicks the Enter response for Request: <Day> button. This
action posts the response form.
Posting the response form
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8. The administrator fills in either the success response or the failure response form.
In this example, the administrator fills in the success response form and then
clicks Continue: Storage Provisioning.
Filling in the success response form
9. The HPIO user views the updated status of the request in the My Requests tab.
The boot disk has been added and all resources have been reserved for the
service. The service now awaits approval by the HPIO Administrator.
Viewing the updated status screen
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10. The HPIO Administrator receives an email notification indicating that the request
should be either approved or rejected. The message includes relevant
information about the request and detailed steps.
Viewing an email request for approval
11. The HPIO Administrator returns to the IO console, selects the request, and clicks
Approve.
Approving a request to create a service
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12. The HPIO User can see in the Requests tab that the request has been approved;
however, the request is not yet complete. The progress bar shows 12%
completion.
Viewing the request progress
13. The HPIO User clicks the refresh icon in the status column to update the progress
status. The request displays as 26% complete.
Updating the request status
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16. This logical server requires operating system provisioning. The template used in
this instance requires a manual provisioning of the operating system. Templates
can specify automatic provisioning by means of Insight Control server
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17. The HPIO Administrator receives an email notification that a manual operating
system deployment is required. All system and disk information is provided in the
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19. When the manual operating system provisioning is complete, the administrator
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21. The HPIO Administrator receives a request to set up a data disk for the server.
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25. The HPIO Administrator fills in the request dialog in an HTML view of the
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Create Service fields
Field name description
Service Name Enter a name for the service
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The Standby operation deactivates servers within a service without deleting them.
More specifically, a Standby operation:
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When reallocating a server blade on a Resume request, IO must find a server blade
that matches the original logical server definition and physical characteristics of the
previously allocated server blade, including processor architecture and model. In
addition, the new server blade must have at least the same number of processors, the
same amount of memory, and the same processor speed. If IO cannot find a server
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To request additional servers for a server group, you perform a Flex Up Server
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To request additional servers for a server group:
1. On the My Services tab, select a service and double-click it, or click Details.
2. Right-click a server group and then select Add servers to group. The Add servers
to server group name window displays, showing the maximum number of
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You can request additional storage for a service by performing a Flex Up Storage
operation. This operation adds private or shared data disks to an existing
infrastructure service. IO provisions and allocates the storage to the attached servers.
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The information that displays at the bottom of the screen is described in the
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The HP IO Designer enables HPIO_Architects and HPIO_Administrators to plan and
design multisystem, multitier infrastructures by using a drag-and-drop interface. The
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The following rules apply to icons in the Designer:
Server groups can be connected to networks or storage.
Storage and networks cannot be directly connected.
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The following table describes the fields and controls that display when you create a
new template or open an existing template.
Designer template fields and controls
Field Name Description
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Template Name Displays the unique name used when saving the template.
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An IO designer is responsible for the following tasks:
Setting defaults
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To change the Designer default values:
1. In the Designer menu, click Defaults. The Defaults page displays.
2. Enter the costs and configuration options you want to set as defaults on the
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Configuring software
The Software tab is used to configure software for a server. You must select Disk is
bootable on the Config tab to enable the Software tab.
When you first select Disk as bootable, the Software tab displays an error status
validation indicator, indicating that you must specify software for the disk. To select
software for automatic software deployment:
1. Click the Software Tab. Automatic is selected by default and a list of known
software is displayed.
2. If required, select the OS Type and Virtualization Type from the lists.
3. Click Save to save the configuration.
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To access network configuration options:
1. From the IO home page, click New, or open an existing template.
2. Select a network on the template, or drag a Network icon from the Components
section and drop it in the template design area.
3. Double-click the Network icon, or right-click the network, and select Edit Subnet
Configuration. The Edit Subnet Configuration page displays with the following
tabs:
a. Config — Enables you to specify the subnet for a network by either:
Selecting a specific subnet for the network
Specifying the attributes of the network
b. Connections — Provides data regarding each of the server groups
connected to the subnet in the template
c. Notes — Enables you to attach notes to the network
4. Update the network subnet as required.
5. Click Save.
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Specifying the attributes of a network subnet allocates a specific subnet, meeting the
requirements for the network when a service is created based on a template.
To specify default subnet configurations for new templates:
1. On the Config tab, select Specify desired attributes.
2. In Allocation Name Hint, enter a name or name hint, which will be used by IO
to select a subnet with the specified name. If no subnet is found with a matching
name, this field is ignored.
3. In Specify subnet attributes, specify fields that describe the required attributes for
this subnet. If any is specified for an attribute, IO ignores this attribute when
allocating a subnet during provisioning.
Subnet Visibility — Enables you to select whether the network is visibility is
any, public, or private.
Subnet IP Version — Enables you to select whether the network IP version is
IPv4 or IPv6.
Subnet Sharing — Enables you to select whether the network is shared or
exclusive. If you select Exclusive, IO allocates a subnet that is not allocated
to any other infrastructure service. The allocated subnet is reserved for
exclusive use by the service until it is deprovisioned.
4. Click Save.
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Viewing network connections
The Connections tab summarizes the network connections associated with the
selected network. The following table describes the columns on this tab.
Column/Field Name Description
Server Name Displays the logical name of the server group
Hostname Displays the hostname of the server
Displays the number of servers in the connected
Server Count
server group
Displays the logical NIC name of the connected
Interface
interface
Displays the IP Assignment Type configured on the
Assignment Type
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Validation status
Template validation helps you create templates that can be successfully provisioned.
Templates that are invalid (display validation errors) cannot be published and are not
visible to users who might want to create services based on the template. As you
develop a template, the overall template validation status updates automatically. You
do not need to actively revalidate a template during the design process.
The IO Designer includes several tools to help you create valid templates:
Validation status icons — An icon is associated with the template validation
status next to each template in the Existing Templates tree and at the top of each
template tab in the Validation Status area of the template header.
Show issues — Click Show Issues or the Validation Status icon in the template
header to highlight the elements on the template design area that have
validation problems.
To display a tooltip summarizing the issues, mouse over any highlighted
component.
To remove the highlight, click Hide Issues or the Validation Status icon.
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Validation messages — Within a template design tab, click Messages in the
template header. Validation errors and warnings for the template display in a
pane at the bottom of the template design area. Each message contains specific
information as to the source of the problem and a suggested resolution. When
you click a message, the problem component on the design template design
area is highlighted. To display the configuration dialog and open the
appropriate dialog tab, double-click a message.
Dialog field and tab highlighting — When a server group, subnet, or disk
configuration dialog is open, any tab that contains a field with data causing a
warning or error message displays the appropriate validation symbol over it.
Problem fields are highlighted in red or yellow as appropriate, with tooltip data
describing the problem and a suggested resolution.
Validation messages display information about issues or potential issues with a
template. The two levels of validation messages are:
Validation errors — A validation error means that there is an issue with the
template that will cause any attempt to provision a service based on the template
to fail. If a template has any validation errors associated with it, the template has
a validation status of Error and cannot be published. The Published check box in
the Templates tab header remains disabled until all validation errors are
resolved.
Validation warnings — A validation warning means that there is an issue with
the template that will cause any attempt to provision a service based on the
template to fail, or that there could be functional problems with the provisioned
service. If a template has any validation warnings, and has no validation errors,
the template will have a validation status of Warning. You can publish templates
with validation warnings; however, you should resolve validation warnings
before publication.
All templates display a validation status of Error, Warning, or Valid next to each
template in the Existing Templates tree and at the top of each Templates tab, in the
Validation Status area of the template header. You can save any template, regardless
of validation status; however, you can only publish templates with a validation status
of Warning or Valid.
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Validation example
When you click the component showing the validation error, information displays in
the Notes box in the upper-right side of the screen.
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Saving a template
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Saving a template
After creating or editing a template, click Save. After saving a template for the first
time, the Designer tool automatically moves the template from the New Template
category to the Working template category.
Deleting a template
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Deleting a template has no effect on any running infrastructure services; however, a
user cannot create more services from a deleted template.
After you delete a template, you cannot recover it. If the template was exported as
XML, you can import the template into your system.
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To publish a template, select Published and then save the template.
Templates that are invalid (display validation errors) cannot be published and are
therefore not visible to users who might want to create services based on the
template.
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Creating and managing workflows
The IO Designer Workflows Edit page enables you to assign Operations
Orchestration workflows that execute at the beginning or end of an IO action to the
template.
To display the Workflows window, while editing a template in the Designer, click
Workflows.
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Adding a workflow
The IO Designer Workflows page enables you to associate Operations Orchestration
workflows with various phases of provisioning, operating, and deprovisioning a
service created from a template.
The Workflows page displays with the following tabs:
Edit — Enables you to add a workflow to a template or edit a workflow
associated with the template
Ordering — Displays the workflow associated with the selected execution point
Summary — Displays a list of all workflows associated with the template
To edit a workflow:
1. Edit the workflow as required.
2. Click Save.
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Selecting a workflow to add
To add workflow, select a workflow from the Select a workflow list, or select
Manually Add. If you select Manually Add, do the following:
1. Enter the name of a workflow that either exists or will exist on the server when
the template is used.
2. Enter the path of a workflow that either exists or will exist on the server when the
template is used.
3. Select at least one execution point.
4. Click Add.
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Workflows Edit tab
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The Operations Orchestration workflows that execute at the beginning or end of an
IO action are called execution points.
You can select Beginning and End for the following items:
Create Service — Provisions the resources required to create a service from a
template
Add Servers — Provisions additional servers in an existing service
Add Data Disk — Provisions additional shared or private data disks in an
existing service
Change Lease — Extends or reduces the lease period of an existing service
Standby Servers or Service — Places a server or an entire service in standby
mode, preserving disks and freeing up resources
Resume Servers or Service — Reactivates a server or an entire service, taking
the server or service out of standby mode, reallocating free servers, and reusing
data disks
Delete Service — Deprovisions an existing service
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The IO Designer Workflows Ordering page displays the workflow associated with
the execution points and enables you to adjust the order in which the workflows are
performed.
To modify a workflow sequence:
1. Select the execution point group from the Execution Point Type list.
2. Select the workflow you want to adjust, and use the arrows on the right side to
adjust the order.
To move a workflow up, use the up-arrow button.
To move a workflow down, use the down-arrow button.
3. Continue to select execution point groups and adjust the entries within the
execution point as required.
4. When the list is in the proper sequence, click Save.
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The IO Designer Workflows Summary tab displays a list of all workflows associated
with the template in a tree format with the seven workflow request types as root
folders.
You can expand each folder (displaying the subfolders) by clicking the plus sign (+).
Use the ++ and – buttons in the upper left corner to expand or collapse all folders.
No configuration is performed on the Summary tab.
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1. Matrix OEs capacity planning uses ____________placement to fit virtual
machines operating as a cluster rather than ____________placement of several
virtual machine hosts.
a. static, dynamic
b. dynamic, static
2. Which enhanced tool simplifies consolidation and load balancing and enables
you to run What If Actions?
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3. With benchmark-based processor scaling, the accuracy of the processor scaling
depends on having accurate information about ____________.
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4. List the four main activities the IO infrastructure supports.
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7. Which tab would the HPIO_Users role use to view the system and event
information about their services?
a. Templates
b. My Requests
c. My Services
d. My Pools
e. My History
8. Which tab would the HPIO_Users role use to view and create services?
a. Templates
b. My Requests
c. My Services
d. My Pools
e. My History
9. Identify the following tasks as requiring either the IO Designer (D) or the HP
Operations Orchestration Studio (S).
Creating, editing, validating, publishing, and deleting templates ______
Creating and editing workflows ______
Exporting and importing templates ______
Managing flow libraries ______
Publishing flows ______
Incorporating cost data ______
Managing flows with Operations Orchestration Central ______
(Hint: There are three “D” items and four “S” items.)
10. What tabs are available on the IO Designer Workflows page?
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11. What is an execution point?
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Module
Objectives
After completing this module, you should be able to:
Describe the layers of troubleshooting for HP Insight Dynamics infrastructure
orchestration
Show the kinds of information you can obtain from the Requests tab in the IO
Administrative Console
Identify the tabs in the self-service portal that provide diagnostic information
Identify the IO operational properties contained in the [Link]
configuration file
Correct a failed IO server deployment
Describe solutions for common issues
Verify the configuration of the Central Management Server (CMS)
Use the sbapi utility to help troubleshoot IO
Use the lsmutil utility to help troubleshoot IO
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IO layers
You typically configure an infrastructure orchestration solution from the upper layers
down. The hierarchy is as follows:
IO
Logical Server Management
Insight Dynamics
HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM)
HP Virtual Connect and HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager (VCEM)
HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) storage
You can also check Insight Control server deployment, the Onboard Administrator
(OA), and HP integrated Lights-Out (iLO).
Generally, changes made in upper layers propagate to lower layers, but changes
made on lower layers do not propagate to upper layers.
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Troubleshooting information
Job lists and log files used in troubleshooting
Tracking issues can lead you to investigate a number of job lists and log files at
various layers. The following files and sources are used in this investigation:
IO — Request History and [Link]
Logical Server Management — [Link]
Insight Dynamics — vseassist, [Link], and [Link]
HP SIM — Task results, event collections, mxlog, and [Link]
Virtual Connect and VCEM — VCEM Jobs list and the Profiles tab
Storage (EVA) — Run History, Trace log, and Events log
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IO Administrative Console
Administrative Console display
Use the IO Administrative Console to check:
The Requests and Services tabs for status
All infrastructure orchestration events in HP SIM
IO log files on the CMS
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IO self-service portal
My History tab
My Requests tab
Use the IO self-service portal to view the following diagnostic information:
My History tab for activity details
My Requests tab for request details
My Services tab for status
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IO configuration file
The [Link] file contains the general operational properties of IO, such as
polling intervals; retry values for Insight Control virtual machine management, PXE
boot to server deployment, and allocation attempts; timeout values; and controller
values. Refer to this file when you need to check aspects of the IO configuration.
Example
########################## CONNECTION INFORMATION ##########################
[Link] = localhost
# RMI port for VMM
[Link] = 40420
# RMI port for LSA
[Link] = 51001
# Webservice port for HPSIM
[Link] = 50002
########################## HPIO KEYSTORE ##########################
[Link] = C\:/Program Files/HP/IO/conf/keystore
[Link] =
########################## HPIO DEFAULT RDP SESSION TEMPLATE ###########
# This is the file used to generate RDP console sessions when launching RDP
# console to deployed servers through the OC/UP UIs. You may modify this
# setting to point to a different file or modify the default
# file ([Link]). However this file MUST reside in the
# conf/console directory.
[Link] = [Link]
########################## Enable display of telnet console feature for
deployed servers ########
# Determines whether a telnet console link will be displayed in OC/UP for
deployed servers.
# NOTE that this setting does NOT enable/disable telnet access on deployed
servers. It simply
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# determines whether a telnet console link will be displayed in OC/UP for
each deployed server.
[Link] = true
########################## Configuring VM console ####
# In order to enable VMWare console access to deployed VMs in
# the OperationsConsole/UserPortal UIs, you must copy the VMWare MKS
# browser plugins from an ESX 3.5 update 3 server as follows:
# 1) on the CMS, open a command window
# 2) cd to <IO_insttall_dir>/conf/console/mks
# 3) scp -r <superUser>@<esxHost>:/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-
tomcat-*/webapps/ui/plugin/* .
########################## HPIO VERSION ##########################
[Link] = 6.1.0
[Link] = [Link]
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Correcting a failed server deployment
Logical server with failed deployment
If an IO physical server deployment fails or an IO delete service request fails, you
must perform a manual cleanup process to fully erase the operating system from the
boot disks, detach the server blade from the storage, and return the blade to an IO
server pool for a future provisioning request. With these failures, the server blade is
moved to the IO Maintenance pool, and the Insight Dynamics logical server is
renamed with the “Clean-me-” prefix.
The server profile and boot disk are preserved, enabling an administrator to
determine the cause of the failure and perform any required maintenance before
returning the server blade to a user pool. Manual cleanup of the failed server blade
depends on the deployment server used to provision it.
The following steps are documented in the IO 6.1 release notes and IO 6.2 user
guide:
1. Power on the server blade.
2. Erase the boot LUN using one of these two options:
At boot, press F9, then select Advanced Options Erase Boot Disk
From the Insight Control server deployment console, run Erase ProLiant
ML/DL/BL Array Configuration
3. Power off the server blade.
4. Delete the server and its jobs from Insight Control server deployment.
5. Deactivate the logical server (it is named Clean-me-<servername>).
6. Delete the logical server.
7. In VCEM, verify that the Virtual Connect profile has been unassigned and
deleted.
8. Move the server blade from the HPIO Maintenance pool to your pool.
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Common issues
Sometimes restarting the IO or HP SIM service resolves an issue, but you can also
check other services as well (Insight Control server deployment, VMware ESX, and so
on).
When blade associations are broken, the Simple Network Management Protocol
(SNMP) agent might be causing it. Check the [Link] file on a managed Linux or
ESX system. When Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) is used, check for
the tog-pegasus service on Linux.
After you fix any management protocol issues, run the Configure or Repair Agents
task. You should start identification tasks whenever management protocol settings are
changed.
When virtual machine associations are broken, check the Insight Control virtual
machine management agent on the host. Then run discovery and identification tasks.
Setting the logging configuration
The logging requirements for IO are set in C:\Program
Files\HP\IO\conf\[Link]. When setting the logging levels, remember that
DEBUG level provides the most information.
Example
[Link]=INFO, dailyFile
### direct log messages to file ###
[Link]=[Link]
[Link]=logs/[Link]
[Link]=50MB
[Link]=20
[Link]=[Link]
[Link]=%d [%-18t] %-5p %C.%M -
%m%n
### direct log messages to file ###
#[Link]=[Link]
#[Link]=logs/[Link]
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#[Link]=[Link]
#[Link]=%d [%-18t] %-5p %C.%M - %m%n
#[Link]=false
Logical server activity logging can be configured in C:\Program Files\HP\
Virtual Server Environment\conf\lsa\log4j_ctrls.properties.
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Verifying the CMS configuration
You can use the vseassist tool and the HP SIM Diagnose menu to help you identify
and resolve any CMS configuration issues related to IO.
The Check CMS Configuration task performs configuration checks on the CMS. To
run this task, from the HP SIM menu, select Diagnose Troubleshoot VSE
Management Check CMS Configuration.
When IO is installed on the system, a set of checks related to the IO configuration
and resource availability execute to help you identify any issues with the IO
configuration.
IOAssist has its own command line interface (CLI); however, IOAssist is primarily
used through vseassist, either through the HP SIM interface or through the vseassist
CLI (vseassist -c).
Note
For more information on vseassist, refer to the vseassist manpage and the Insight
Dynamics help system.
Example
To run all checks, in the CLI, enter:
ioassist —g all
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The following table describes the checks provided with IOAssist.
Name Description
HPIO Database
Verifies the communication between IO and HP SIM
Responsiveness
HPIO Responsiveness Verifies the communication between IO and HP SIM
HPIO User Groups Verifies that IO user groups are properly configured in Microsoft
Configured Windows for basic operations
HPIO ToolBox Configured in Verifies that IO user groups are properly configured in HP SIM for IO
HPSIM operations
Insight Control Virtual
Verifies the communication between IO and virtual machine
Machine Management
management
Software Responsiveness
Virtual Infrastructure Server
Verifies the virtual infrastructure server configuration in HP SIM
Configuration
Verifies that deployment servers are available for automatic operating
Deployment Services
system deployment
Verifies the email configuration in HP Operations Orchestration for
HPIO Email Configuration
request notification
Logical Server Management
Verifies that IO can communicate with logical server management
Communication
HPIO Network Verifies that at least one network is properly configured in IO for
Configuration provisioning with minimum required parameters
HPIO User Pools
Checks for the availability of resources on IO user pools (virtual and
Configuration - Resources
physical)
Availability
HPIO User Pools
Configuration - Users Checks if users are assigned to the IO pools
Assigned to Pools
Operations Orchestration Checks available IO workflows configured in Operations
Workflow Configuration Orchestration
Virtual Software Verifies that virtual software customization is properly configured for
Customization automatic operating system deployment
HPIO Template Available
Verifies that there are published and valid IO templates
and Published
Storage pools assigned to Checks if there are Storage pools available on each Virtual Connect
VCDG Domain Group for physical provisioning
Checks if there are available physical, virtual, and mixed networks for
Available Networks
provisioning
Server Availability Checks if virtual and physical servers are available for IO operations
Verifies that deployment servers contain software for automatic
Available Software
operating system deployment
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For each check performed, one of the following status indicators displays:
PASS — No configuration issue was found.
FAIL — A serious configuration problem was found. You must resolve the
problem for correct operation.
WARN — A configuration problem was found. The problem will not necessarily
prevent correct operation, but it might limit or restrict the operation of some
features.
N/A — Not applicable; the check does not apply to this type of system.
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sbapi help screen
The Southbound API (sbapi) CLI is useful for exposing the IO view of the systems as
presented by HP SIM and Insight Dynamics. The [Link] utility is located in
C:\Program Files\HP\IO\support.
You can use this utility:
To validate the IO environment — Enter the command sbapi ValidateEnv
The following example of the output shows both successful and failed tests.
To view the IO templates in xml format — Enter the command sbapi
GetVmTemplates
To view information about server pools — Enter the command sbapi
GetServerPools
The output is xml-formatted information about each server.
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Using lsmutil
When IO performs operations on one of its logical servers, it looks up the logical
server information using an API. The lsmutil utility exercises that API from the
command line to provide a view of what information is being returned to IO.
The lsmutil utility reads information from the logical server tables in the Virtual Server
Environment database. Based on the option selected, the script looks up information
in the tables or performs basic database operations.
The lsmutil utility is located in C:\Program Files\HP\Virtual Server Environment\bin.
Examples
To view all logical servers, enter the lsmutil -list command.
To export a list of logical servers and storage pools enter the lsmutil -export
command.
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Learning check
1. It is generally better to perform configuration changes in IO rather than in Virtual
Connect.
True
False
2. Which tasks can be performed in the IO Administrative Console? (Select all that
apply.)
a. Check requests and services for status
b. Configure storage pools
c. Check IO log files
d. Design new templates
e. Check infrastructure orchestration events in HP SIM
3. Describe the basic functions of sbapi utility.
.................................................................................................................
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.................................................................................................................
.................................................................................................................
4. How does the of lsmutil utility work?
.................................................................................................................
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5. With certain deployment failures, the server blade is moved to the IO
_____________________ pool, and the Insight Dynamics logical server is
renamed with the “____________” prefix. The __________ __________ and
______ ______ are preserved, enabling an administrator to determine the cause
of the failure and perform any required maintenance before returning the server
blade to a user pool.
.................................................................................................................
.................................................................................................................
.................................................................................................................
.................................................................................................................
6. Which tab on the IO self-service portal provides activity details?
a. My History tab
b. My Requests tab
c. My Services tab
7. What file do you use to check aspects of the IO configuration?
.................................................................................................................
8. When setting the logging requirements in the IO [Link] file, what level
provides the most information?
.................................................................................................................
9. What task do you run to verify the CMS configuration?
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Learning Check Answers
Appendix A
HP Converged Infrastructure Components
1. List the three infrastructure management challenges identified in this module.
(page 4)
Flexibility, mistakes, and virtualization
2. Fill in the blanks: (page 3)
Organizations typically spend 70% of their budget on operations and
maintenance and 30% is left for business innovation.
3. Fill in the blanks: (page 7)
In a shared services view, modular resources are virtualized, pooled, and
shared.
4. Fill in the blanks: (page 8)
A converged infrastructure is the optimal architecture of virtual pools of servers,
storage, and networking to run applications.
5. HP is the only vendor with the intellectual property and investments across
servers, storage, networking, power and cooling, and management to do this
convergence correctly. (page 13)
True
False
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6. Match the HP Converged Infrastructure aspect to its description. (pages 8
through 10)
a. Enables network connections c. Infrastructure operating
and capacity to be fully environment
virtualized from the edge to the
core
b. Created from purpose-built d. Data Center Smart Grid
systems to enable adaptive,
shared capacity that can be
combined, divided, and
repurposed to match any
application demand
c. An ability to automate the a. FlexFabric
provisioning and recovery of
resources within a pool from
both the provider-side and the
requester-side
d. Creates an intelligent, energy- b. Virtual resource pools
aware environment across IT
and facilities to optimize and
reduce energy use, reclaim
facility capacity, and reduce
energy costs
7. List two switches that support FCoE. (page 29)
HP StorageWorks 2408 Converged Network Switch
HP Nexus 5000 Converged Network Switch
8. Which Virtual Connect (VC) module supports FCoE? (page 32)
a. VC 1/10Gb-F
b. VC Flex-10
c. VC FlexFabric
d. VC-FC 8Gb 24-port
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HP Matrix OE
1. What is HP Insight Dynamics? (page 2)
Something similar to: HP Insight Dynamics is a single toolkit to accelerate
complex IT projects, simplify daily operations, and proactively manage data
center capacity and power.
2. Fill in the blanks: (page 8)
The infrastructure orchestration functionality extends Insight Dynamics to provide
rapid provisioning and repurposing of infrastructure services from shared
resource pools using a self-service portal.
3. List three new features of HP Insight Dynamics 6.1. (pages 6-7)
Any three of the following:
Enhanced integration of HP Server Automation for provisioning physical
servers
Virtual machine data store support for VMware ESX and Microsoft Hyper-V
with HP P4xxx and NetApp iSCSI
Virtual machine storage tagging that provides control for virtual machine
data store selection during the provisioning process
High-availability Central Management Server (CMS) with a new service
option and updated methods
BL860/70/90c i2 support for visualization, capacity planning, and global
workload management
Support for new ProLiant G7 servers
Additional independent software vendor (ISV) template support
4. What are the four main activities that HP Insight Dynamics infrastructure
orchestration supports to automate the deployment of infrastructure services?
(page 18)
Design, provision, operate, and integrate
5. HP Insight Dynamics infrastructure orchestration uses what three portals?
(page 23)
HP IO Designer
HP IO console
HP IO self-service portal
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IO Configuration
1. What is a template in IO? (page 4)
An IO template is a tool that specifies the requirements, or design, for an
infrastructure service in terms of server groups, networks, and storage. A
template can also define customization points that use HP Operations
Orchestration workflows to be executed during provisioning requests.
2. IO stores user login names and passwords in its database. (page 5)
True
False
3. Which tasks can be done by members of HPIO_Architects? (Select all that
apply.) (page 7)
a. Configure networks and pools
b. Grant users access to existing resources
c. Create, modify, and publish templates
d. Use the IO Designer
4. Where are network resources defined? (Select all that apply.) (page 12)
a. VMware or Hyper-V managers
b. VCEM
c. Onboard Administrator
d. Options tab in HP SIM
5. Virtual machine management (VMM) templates are used for ESX hosts in IO 6.
(page 30)
True
False
6. List at least two supported server deployment platforms for IO. (page 33)
Any two of the following:
Insight Control server deployment
Ignite-UX
HP Server Automation
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7. Which tab would the HPIO_Users role use to view the system and event
information about their services? (page 47)
a. Templates
b. My Requests
c. My Services
d. My Pools
e. My History
8. Which tab would the HPIO_Users role use to view and create services?
(page 47)
a. Templates
b. My Requests
c. My Services
d. My Pools
e. My History
9. Identify the following tasks as requiring either the IO Designer (D) or the HP
Operations Orchestration Studio (S). (page 63)
Creating, editing, validating, publishing, and deleting templates ___D___
Creating and editing workflows ___S___
Exporting and importing templates ___D___
Managing flow libraries ___S___
Publishing flows ___S___
Incorporating cost data ___D___
Managing flows with Operations Orchestration Central ___S___
(Hint: There are three “D” items and four “S” items.)
10. What tabs are available on the IO Designer Workflows page? (page 87)
Edit, Ordering, and Summary
11. What is an execution point? (page 89)
The Operations Orchestration workflows that execute at the beginning or end of
an IO action are called execution points.
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IO — Troubleshooting
1. It is generally better to perform configuration changes in IO rather than in Virtual
Connect. (page 2)
True
False
2. Which tasks can be performed in the IO Administrative Console? (Select all that
apply.) (page 4)
a. Check requests and services for status
b. Configure storage pools
c. Check IO log files
d. Design new templates
e. Check infrastructure orchestration events in HP SIM
3. Describe the basic functions of sbapi utility. (page 14)
You can use this utility to validate the IO environment, view the IO templates in
XML format, and view information about server pools.
4. How does the of lsmutil utility work? (page 15)
The lsmutil utility reads information from the logical server tables in the Virtual
Server Environment database. Based on the option selected, the script looks up
information in the tables or performs basic database operations.
5. With certain deployment failures, the server blade is moved to the IO
Maintenance pool, and the Insight Dynamics logical server is renamed with the
“Clean-me-” prefix. The server profile and boot disk are preserved, enabling an
administrator to determine the cause of the failure and perform any required
maintenance before returning the server blade to a user pool. (page 8)
6. Which tab on the IO self-service portal provides activity details? (page 5)
a. My History tab
b. My Requests tab
c. My Services tab
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7. What file do you use to check aspects of the IO configuration? (page 6)
The [Link] file
8. When setting the logging requirements in the IO [Link] file, what level
provides the most information? (page 9)
DEBUG
9. What task do you run to verify the CMS configuration? (page 11)
The Check CMS Configuration task performs configuration checks on the CMS.
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