HP Matrix Operating Environment 7.0 Infrastructure Orchestration User Guide

The manual tasks are associated with paused states in the infrastructure orchestration automation
and include:
• Boot disk allocation
When LUNs with the required attributes are not available for a Create Service or Add servers
to group operation, disk allocation is blocked and the infrastructure orchestration administrator
is notified.
The operation pauses until the infrastructure orchestration administrator:
◦ Works with a SAN administrator to create the storage.
◦ Defines the storage in HP Matrix OE logical server management.
◦ Continues the operation.
When the operation continues, infrastructure orchestration reattempts to allocate the resources.
Success depends on the availability of unused boot LUNs.
• Approval
After resources are reserved, the Create Service, Add servers to group, Add data disk to group,
and Change Lease Period (extend only) operations pause for infrastructure orchestration
administrator approval. The infrastructure orchestration administrator can approve or reject
the request. If the request is approved, the request continues into provisioning.
NOTE: Administrator submitted requests do not require approval.
• Manual operating system deployment
A service template typically assigns a server deployment or virtual machine software to a
group of servers, however it is possible (though not typical) to define a service template without
assigning server deployment or virtual machine software to a group of servers. In this case,
the Create Service and Add servers to group operations pause to allow the infrastructure
orchestration administrator to deploy the operating system manually.
• Data disk allocation
When LUNs with the required attributes are not available for a Create Service, Add servers
to group, or Add data disk to group operation, disk allocation is blocked and the infrastructure
orchestration administrator is notified.
The infrastructure orchestration administrator:
◦ Works with a SAN administrator to create the storage.
◦ Defines the storage in Matrix OE logical server management.
◦ Continues the operation.
When the operation continues, infrastructure orchestration reattempts to allocate the resources.
This pause is always necessary when infrastructure orchestration is configured to perform
manual storage provisioning and data disks are defined in the service template. It may or
may not be necessary when multi-initiator NPIV storage features are enabled.
• Add data disk to group operation
The Add data disk to group operation adds private or shared data disks to an existing
infrastructure service.
Matrix infrastructure orchestration provisions and allocates the storage to their attached servers.
When executing this operation, infrastructure orchestration:
◦ Validates the request
94 Matrix infrastructure orchestration provisioning and allocation