HP Matrix Operating Environment 7.2 Infrastructure Orchestration User Guide

Enabling telnet for 32-bit Firefox running on a 64-bit Windows operating system..............90
Matrix infrastructure orchestration organization administrator portal...............................................90
Accessing the infrastructure orchestration organization administrator portal................................90
Organization administrator portal interface overview..............................................................90
Customizing the organization administrator and self service portals..........................................92
Matrix OE infrastructure orchestration self service portal...............................................................92
Accessing the infrastructure orchestration self service portal.....................................................93
Self service portal interface overview....................................................................................93
4 Matrix infrastructure orchestration provisioning and allocation........................95
Matrix infrastructure orchestration lifecycle operations..................................................................95
Create service operation.....................................................................................................95
Delete service operation.....................................................................................................96
Importing an existing server as a service...............................................................................96
Add server to group operation.............................................................................................98
Remove servers from group operation...................................................................................98
Add data disk to group operation........................................................................................99
Activate servers in group operation....................................................................................100
Deactivate servers in group operation.................................................................................100
Power on servers..............................................................................................................101
Power off servers..............................................................................................................101
Power cycle servers..........................................................................................................102
Change lease operation...................................................................................................102
Edit virtual servers operation..............................................................................................103
Managing floating IP addresses.........................................................................................104
Managing server snapshots...............................................................................................104
Attaching physical disks to virtual servers............................................................................105
Provisioning physical servers using local disk ......................................................................106
Allocating servers to a VM Host.........................................................................................106
Allocating storage to virtual machines................................................................................107
Excluding disks on a VM Host from the storage pool........................................................108
Manual processes within the lifecycle operations..................................................................108
Creating infrastructure orchestration templates..........................................................................110
Creating a template with a physical ProLiant or Integrity server..............................................110
Creating a template with a physical VM Host or ESXi VM cluster............................................117
Creating a template with a ProLiant or Integrity virtual machine..............................................118
Creating a template to provision at a cloud service provider.......................................................124
Setting user-defined properties................................................................................................124
Creating a service request.....................................................................................................124
Customizing template attributes when a service is created.....................................................127
Modifying the create service timeout value..........................................................................130
Approving and automating deployment...................................................................................130
Managing new logical servers...............................................................................................132
Automated allocation............................................................................................................133
Automated operating system provisioning................................................................................134
Deploying an operating system to multi-path storage.................................................................135
Assigning and retrieving cost and billing information (chargeback)..............................................135
Specifying fixed costs for templates and services .................................................................136
Specifying per-unit costs for resources.................................................................................137
Specifying costs for services deployed to public cloud providers........................................138
Specifying a billing code for services..................................................................................138
Specifying a global cost unit for all templates .....................................................................139
Chargeback metrics collected and reported ............................................................................140
Chargeback metrics collected after an upgrade from a version older than Matrix OE 7.1...........140
Using the CLI to retrieve chargeback data................................................................................140
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