HP Matrix Operating Environment 7.1 Release Notes

Operations Orchestration intended usage in Matrix OE
A limited version of Operations Orchestration is included with Matrix OE. This version of Operations
Orchestration is licensed for limited uses.
Functionality
• Allows Matrix OE infrastructure orchestration to trigger Operations Orchestration workflows
for pre- and post- provisioning tasks. Examples include Create Service/Add Server, Standby
Server/Service, and Resume Server/Service.
Workflows in the limited version of Operations Orchestration included with Matrix OE may
only be triggered from the Matrix OE infrastructure orchestration interface in relation to pre-
and post- provisioning tasks. An upgrade to the full version of Operations Orchestration allows
the launch of workflows from outside of the Matrix OE interface.
• The limited version of Operations Orchestration allows Matrix OE to be integrated with other
management software. However, this requires additional services from HP consulting.
• The limited version of Operations Orchestration included within Matrix OE is licensed for one
author. Upgrades to the full version of Operations Orchestration allow for multiple authors.
• The version of HP Operations Orchestration Central that is included in Matrix OE may only
be used for flow troubleshooting. An upgrade to the full version of Operations Orchestration
allows the use of Operations Orchestration Central to launch and schedule the launch of
Operations Orchestrationn workflows from outside of Matrix OE/Insight Control.
Content
The content supplied with the limited version is a subset of the content that is available in the full
version of Operations Orchestration and is related to Infrastructure-as-a-Service workflows. An
upgrade to the full version of Operations Orchestration provides additional content.
Capacity Advisor
Limitations
Capacity Advisor does not collect data from Virtualization Services Platform (VSP) 6.1
Do not use Capacity Advisor 7.1 with VSP 6.1. There are issues with collecting data from vPars
and virtual machines, recognizing vPars, and modeling vPars in the Scenario Editor.
Minor issues
Missing raw data for a time period
Capacity Analysis sometimes encounters missing data when it tries to compute statistics for a day,
week, or month. When no data is collected for a day, the average CPU utilization for that day is
stored as “unknown” and is displayed as a dash. If all of the data has been collected for a day,
the average can be computed and stored. However, if data has been collected for only part of a
day, then Capacity Analysis can report the average of the data that was collected, or report that
the average is unknown. In this initial release of Capacity Analysis, the rules for displaying a dash
or a value based on partial data are not well defined and can vary from metric to metric.
Suggested action
If you have an analysis query that is sensitive to the amount of available data, you can edit the
query to add a filter expression for the “CPU % valid” (the CPU utilization percentage). You
might want to display the CPU % value in any query results to show whether the results are full
or partial. Additionally, you can change the analysis interval to a time period where all of the data
is more likely to be available.
18 Issues and suggested actions