HP Insight Dynamics 6.0 Getting Started Guide

workflows for these operations to allow the integration of Insight Orchestration into the business
processes.
Template architects can associate one or more Operations Orchestration workflows with a
particular template. You can design these workflows to run before or after a particular lifecycle
operation allowing the corresponding adjustment of the target server.
For more information about Insight Operations Orchestration, see the list of manuals under
“Using Insight Dynamics” (page 34).
HP Insight Recovery software
HP Insight Recovery provides simplified disaster recovery of logical server environments. With
a mouse click, HP Insight Recovery transfers application environments running on HP
BladeSystems or on virtual machines to a remote Recovery Site. It utilizes the data replication
capabilities of HP storage environments to ensure that application data is properly transitioned
to the recovery location and that the overall transition is measured in minutes, not days. Insight
Recovery is not supported on HP Integrity nor on non-HP servers.
Logical servers that are included in an HP Insight Recovery configuration are referred to as “DR
protected logical servers”. A DR protected logical server can run on a physical machine (c-Class
blade), or on a virtual machine hosted by a hypervisor. When a DR protected logical server is
running on a c-Class Blade equipped with HP Virtual Connect, it is referred to as a “VC hosted
logical server”. When a DR protected logical server is running on a virtual machine under the
control of a hypervisor, it is referred to as a “VM hosted logical server”.
An HP Insight Recovery configuration consists of two sites, each managed by HP Insight
Dynamics. At any point in time, one site is configured with the primary role and the other is
configured with the recovery role. HP Insight Recovery pairs symmetrically configured logical
servers across the two sites. The DR protected logical servers at the Primary Site are in an activated
state, providing services to the end-user. The peer logical servers at the Recovery Site are in a
deactivated state. At the Primary Site, the boot images of the DR protected logical servers,
including applications code and data, reside on HP StorageWorks EVA or XP disk array volumes.
The Primary Site volumes are replicated on an HP StorageWorks EVA or XP disk array at the
Recovery Site. Each replicated Recovery Site volume is associated with a DR protected peer
logical server at the Recovery Site.
If a disaster occurs at the Primary Site, the administrator at the Recovery Site can trigger a site
failover via a push-button provided by HP Insight Recovery. This will prepare the storage
associated with the DR protected logical servers at the Recovery Site for read-write access, and
then activate the logical servers at the Recovery Site. The site role at the Recovery Site will be
changed to primary.
For more information about HP Insight Recovery software, see the HP Insight Recovery 6.0 User
Guide, available at http://www.hp.com/go/insightdynamics/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.
SPM is automatically installed as part of Insight Dynamics and is accessed through the logical
server management (LSM) feature of Virtualization Manager. SPM must be connected to EVAs
using Command View (CV), storage arrays that are managed by HP Insight Orchestration (HPIO)
using Insight Operations Orchestration or SMI-S, and to unmanaged storage arrays. Figure 5-1
shows the relationships between the applications, servers, and arrays in the overall SPM
environment.
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