Document Outline

• HP Insight Orchestration 6.0 User Guide
• Table of Contents
• 1 Introduction
  • Usage scenarios
  • Automated infrastructure design provisioning and management
  • Important terms
  • Insight Orchestration users
  • Software deployment and service provisioning
• 2 Installation
  • Installing Insight Orchestration
  • Upgrading Insight Orchestration
  • Uninstalling Insight Orchestration
• 3 Configuration
  • Configuring Insight Orchestration users in Windows
  • Configuring HP Operations Orchestration
  • Licensing Insight Orchestration
  • Configuring your environment for virtual provisioning
    • Setting up the virtual machine networks
    • Creating VMM templates
    • Excluding disks on a VMHost from the storage pool
    • Customization requirements
  • Configuring your environment for physical provisioning
    • Verifying VC Domain groups
    • Configuring Insight Control server deployment
      • Creating server deployment job folders
      • Modifying the Erase ProLiant Hardware job
      • Configuring Ignite UX
      • Configuring HP Server Automation
    • 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 Designer
  • Overview
  • Accessing Designer
  • Interface overview
• 6 Using Insight Orchestration console
  • Overview
  • Accessing the console
  • Interface overview
  • Console access to deployed servers
    • Limitations
      • Configuration
        • Enabling VM console
        • Enabling telnet for IE7 or later
      • Support
      • Known issues
• 7 Using Insight Orchestration Self-Service portal
  • Overview
  • Accessing the Self-Service portal
  • Interface overview
• 8 Using Operations Orchestration
  • Accessing Operations Orchestration
  • Operations Orchestration requirements
  • Server group monitoring example
    • Verifying server group status
    • Creating the workflow
    • Enabling email troubleshooting information
    • Creating an infrastructure service instance
• 9 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
• 10 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