HP Matrix Operating Environment: infrastructure orchestration Integration

Course overview

This course covers the configuration and use of the HP Matrix Operating Environment infrastructure orchestration software to create an infrastructure service catalog and integrate into datacenter processes and services.

Prerequisites

The students MUST have at least one out of four requirements below:

1. Standard deliveries of all 3 HE646S, HE643S and HK758S Blades, Insight Control and Virtual Connect courses:

• http://www.hp.com/education/courses/he646s.html
• http://www.hp.com/education/courses/he643s.html
• http://www.hp.com/education/courses/hk758s.html

2. Or attended tailored or Custom Training event through HP Education that covered administration topics from the above courses

3. Or equivalent HP BladeSystem ProLiant administration experience >2 years

4. Students have attended the following training or have equivalent experiences:

• HP Insight Control : Management Fundamental (HK756s)
• HP Blade/CloudSystem Matrix :Infrastructure Admin (HK920s)

Audience

• Administrators, engineers and consultants who will plan and manage internal cloud service catalogs using HP Matrix Operating Environment infrastructure orchestration software

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Course objectives

• Create and manage a logical server through its lifecycle
• Configure HP Matrix Operating Environment infrastructure orchestration (IO) software
• Create, run, and publish a simple workflow in HP Operations Orchestration (OO) Studio
• Describe the IO workflow integration architecture
• Describe the IO lifecycle integration interfaces
• Process XML-formatted workflow inputs provided by IO
• Install and customize a sample cloudmap that contains an IO template, an OO workflow, and several customization files

Course outline

Module 0: Course Overview

• Course Introduction
• Lab Environment Overview

Module 1: Introduction to infrastructure orchestration

• Infrastructure orchestration (IO) Product Overview
• Design Overview
• Design Tasks
• Integration Overview
• Integration Architecture
• Provisioning Overview

Labs:

• Downloading HP Matrix Operating Environment Documentation
• Viewing IO Online Demonstrations

Module 2: Introduction to Logical Servers

• Logical Server Features
• Creating a Logical Server
• Activating a Logical Server
• Displaying Logical Server Properties
• Storage Pool Management

Labs:

• Importing a Logical Server from a Virtual Machine
• Dragging a Logical Server from One ESX Host to Another
• Deactivating and Activating a Logical Server
• Explicitly Moving a Logical Server
• Unmanaging an Imported Logical Server

Module 3: Configuring and using infrastructure orchestration

• Configuration Tasks Overview
• Setting up Virtual Provisioning
• Setting up Physical Provisioning
• Setting up Server Pools
• Setting up Storage Pools
• Administrator Tasks
• Troubleshooting

Labs:

• Configuring infrastructure orchestration
• Virtual Provisioning and Template Development
• Troubleshooting

Module 4: Infrastructure orchestration Integration Architecture

• IO Integration Interfaces
• Extensible Server and Storage Adapter Overview

Labs:

• Using the IO Integration Interface
• Deleting a Service Using the CLI

Module 5: Introduction to Operations Orchestration Workflows

• Operations Orchestration (OO) Overview
• OO Studio User Interface

Labs:

• Setting up OO Studio
• Configuring OO Studio
• Configuring Student Accounts

Module 6: Authoring Your First Workflow

• Creating the Flow
• Running the Flow in the OO Studio Debugger

Labs:

• Exploring OO Studio
• Authoring your First Flow

Module 7:Creating Workflows for infrastructure orchestration

• IO WorkFlow Structure
• Creating a WorkFlow for IO
• Extracting Information from the RequestXML Input
• Using XSLT

Labs:

• Building a CaptureXML flow
• Modifying the Output Filename
• Using XSLT

Module 8: IO Cloudmap Solution

• IIS Cloudmap Solution Components
• IIS Cloudmap Workflow Logic
• Installing a Cloudmap Solution

Labs:

• Installing the IIS Cloudmap Solution