HP Insight Orchestration extends HP Insight Dynamics to provide rapid provisioning and repurposing of infrastructure services from shared resource pools using a
HP Insight Orchestration supports four main activities to automate the deployment of infrastructure services:
Design | An architect uses the graphical designer to create simple and complex |
| infrastructure templates that, when tested, can be published for users to create |
| infrastructure services. |
Provision | A |
| provisioning from it, against an assigned pool of resources. The administrator |
| can approve or deny this request, and monitor its progress. |
Operate | The administrator manages server, network, and storage pools, defines virtual |
| machine images and software deployment jobs, performs manual provisioning |
| tasks as part of the fulfillment of |
| to monitor the health and utilization of the managed environment. |
Integrate | Architects and administrators integrate Insight Orchestration with existing IT |
| processes by modifying or creating Operations Orchestration workflows to |
| customize the Insight Orchestration automation. They can link to approval |
| processes, extend operating system deployment and server configuration, and |
| integrate the SAN management processes with server deployment. |
For more information about HP Insight Orchestration software and the related Operations Orchestration software, see the list of documents under “Related information” (page 29).
HP Insight Recovery softwareHP 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 only supported on an HP ProLiant CMS running Microsoft Windows.
Logical servers that are included in an HP Insight Recovery configuration are referred to as “DR protected logical servers”. 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
If a disaster occurs at the Primary Site, the administrator at the Recovery Site can trigger a site failover via a
For more information about HP Insight Recovery software, see the see the list of documents under “Related information” (page 29).
HP Storage Provisioning ManagerHP Storage Provisioning Manager (SPM) is a software tool that provides a
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