HP Matrix Operating Environment 7.1 Getting Started Guide

For information about what is covered in the limited operations orchestration license, see “HP
Operations Orchestration limited license” (page 19).
For more information about Matrix infrastructure orchestration, see the list of documents under
“Related information” (page 41).
For information on provisioning resources to a public cloud service in Matrix infrastructure
orchestration and the managed instance license that is required, see “Matrix OE public cloud
managed instance licenses” (page 22).
HP Matrix Operating Environment recovery management
Matrix recovery management provides simplified disaster recovery of logical servers. With a mouse
click, you can transfer application environments running on HP BladeSystems or on virtual machines
to a remote recovery site. Logical servers that are included in a Matrix recovery management
configuration are referred to as DR Protected logical servers.
A Matrix recovery management configuration consists of a Local Site and a Remote Site.
Symmetrically configured logical servers are paired across the two sites. One logical server in the
pair is activated at one site, while the other (the peer logical server) is deactivated at the other
site. The boot images of these DR Protected logical servers, including applications code and data,
reside on disk array volumes.
By utilizing the data replication capabilities of supported storage environments, the source volumes
at the site where one of the logical servers in the pair is activated are replicated at the other site
where its peer logical server is deactivated. If, for example, a disaster occurs at the Local Site, the
administrator at the Remote Site can trigger a site failover by using the Matrix recovery management
GUI to activate the logical servers at the Remote Site.
Other Matrix recovery management features include:
• DR Protection for Matrix infrastructure orchestration services.
• Support of cross-technology logical servers that can run on physical servers or virtual machines.
• Support of resource provisioning by allowing logical servers to be active on the Local Site or
the Remote Site.
Matrix recovery management is only supported on a CMS running Microsoft Windows.
For more information, see the HP Matrix Operating Environment Recovery Management User
Guide, available at http://www.hp.com/go/matrixoe/docs.
HP Storage Provisioning Manager
HP Storage Provisioning Manager (SPM) is a software tool that provides a service-centric
management interface to storage, allowing storage requests to be fulfilled with available storage
services from a storage catalog. It securely automates storage management tasks alongside the
Matrix OE visualization software. After storage policies and storage resources are input to the
storage catalog using the SPM user interface, you can use the Matrix OE logical server management
to request and have storage set up to meet server needs.
For more information, see the HP Storage Provisioning Manager (SPM) User Guide, available at
http://www.hp.com/go/matrixoe/docs.
Application Discovery
Application Discovery helps you identify and learn about the applications and processes running
in your data center or computing network.
With Application Discovery, you can do the following:
Components of Matrix OE 9