Document Outline

• HP Insight Orchestration 6.2 User Guide
• Table of Contents
• 1 Introduction
  • Usage scenarios
  • Automated infrastructure design provisioning and management
  • Insight Orchestration and the HP Insight Dynamics solution
  • Insight Orchestration users
  • Software deployment and service provisioning
  • API and CLI support
• 2 Installation
  • Installing Insight Orchestration
  • Upgrading Insight Orchestration
  • Uninstalling Insight Orchestration
• 3 Configuration
  • Configuring Insight Orchestration users in Windows
    • Classes of Insight Orchestration users
    • Removing Windows users having current permissions to use IO resources
  • Configuring HP Operations Orchestration
  • Licensing Insight Orchestration
  • Configuring deployment servers
    • Discovering deployment servers
    • Registering deployment servers
    • Configuring Insight Control server deployment
      • Creating server deployment job folders
      • Modifying the Erase ProLiant Hardware job
      • Configuring Ignite-UX
        • Integrity VM Guest Kit installation
    • Configuring HP Server Automation
  • Configuring an environment for virtual provisioning
    • Setting up virtual machine networks
      • Setting up an ESX virtual machine network
      • Setting up an Integrity virtual machine network
      • Setting up a Hyper-V virtual machine network
        • Using VLAN tags in a Hyper-V VM network
    • Creating VMM templates
    • Excluding disks on a VMHost from the storage pool
    • Customization requirements
  • Configuring an environment for physical provisioning
    • Verifying VC Domain groups
    • Creating SAN-backed storage
  • Modifying the logical server timeout value
  • Configuring Insight Orchestration resources in Systems Insight Manager
    • Viewing and configuring networks
    • Verifying Insight Orchestration users
    • Configuring server pools
  • Configuring Insight Orchestration to list heterogeneous hardware
    • Configuring ESA in Virtualization Manager
    • Using the heterogeneous server reference workflows with Insight Orchestration
    • Configuring Insight Orchestration storage management
    • Insight Orchestration approach to storage reservation and allocation
    • Configuring Storage Provisioning Manager (SPM) in Virtualization Manager
• 4 Insight Orchestration provisioning and allocation
  • Insight Orchestration lifecycle operations
    • Create service operation
    • Delete service operation
    • Add server to group operation
    • Add data disk to group operation
    • Deactivate servers in group operation
    • Activate servers in group operation
    • Change lease operation
    • Manual processes within the lifecycle operations
  • Automated allocation
  • Automated operating system provisioning
  • Deploying an operating system to multi-path storage
  • Customizable allocation process
    • Policy configuration file
    • Rule file
    • Customizing existing rules
    • Writing a new rule file
    • Deploying rules
• 5 Using Insight Orchestration applications
  • Overview
  • Insight Orchestration Designer
    • About Designer
    • Accessing Designer
    • Interface overview
  • Insight Orchestration console
    • Overview
    • Accessing the console
    • Interface overview
    • Create service
    • Console access to deployed servers
      • Limitations
        • Configuration
          • Enabling VM console
          • Enabling telnet for IE7 or later
        • Support
        • Known issues
  • Insight Orchestration Self Service Portal
    • Overview
    • Accessing the Self Service Portal
    • Interface overview
• 6 Using Operations Orchestration
  • Overview
  • Accessing Operations Orchestration
  • Downloading, installing, and configuring a remote instance of Operations Orchestration Studio
    • Overview
      • Downloading Operations Orchestration Studio
      • Installing a remote instance of Operations Orchestration Studio
      • Configuring Operations Orchestration Studio on a remote computers
  • Operations Orchestration requirements
• 7 Troubleshooting
  • Verifying the CMS configuration
    • Synopsis
    • Checks provided with Insight Orchestration
    • IOAssist execution timeout
  • Working with services
    • Service creation
      • Physical
      • Virtual
    • Service deletion
      • Physical
      • Virtual
    • Flexing services
    • Deactivate, activate, power off, or power on operations
      • Physical
  • Role specific operations
    • Operations Console
    • Self Service Portal
    • Designer
  • Miscellaneous issues
  • Corrective procedures
    • Manual clean-up process
    • Configuring storage pool entries, FC zones, and disk array presentations
    • Correcting a checksum error
    • Increasing VMware Service console memory and CPU shares
    • Resources not displaying - Increasing timeouts
    • Editing ESA flows when OO is not installed in the default path
• 8 Support and other resources
  • Information to collect before contacting HP
  • How to contact HP
  • Registering for software technical support and update service
    • How to use your software technical support and update service
    • Warranty information
  • Typographic conventions
  • Related documents
    • Documentation and support
      • HP Insight Orchestration documentation
• Glossary
• A HP Operations Orchestration communication security
  • Insight Orchestration Operations Orchestration interaction
  • Data passed by Insight Orchestration to Operations Orchestration
  • Insight Orchestration and Operations Orchestration communication
  • Configuration files and URLs used by Insight Orchestration and Operations Orchestration
• Index