The HP CloudSystem Matrix Step-by-Step use case guides describe use case examples designed to demonstrate some of the benefits that you can realize by using the HP CloudSystem Matrix, such as reduced cost, improved agility, increased availability, improved power planning and decreased energy consumption. Each use case guide and video highlight the key steps to execute a particular use case.
To use these guides, the HP CloudSystem Matrix must be installed and operational.
Create a dynamic test and development infrastructure. Rapidly activate and deactivate test and development environments, to quickly repurpose infrastructure without reinstallation. Resources may be pooled and shared, improving utilization and reducing cost. Cloud bursting further allows you to provision services beyond the “private cloud” by “bursting” into a public cloud for a specific template-defined service. The resources in the public cloud are paid for only when used, and released when no longer needed, optimizing cost and flexibility.
In this use case, the Matrix orchestration capabilities are used to accelerate delivery of shared infrastructure services, while reducing complexity, cutting costs, and improving reliability.
In this scenario, a new infrastructure service is deployed, to quickly adjust to dynamic business demands.
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In this use case, logical servers deployed as physical server blades are used to create a dynamic test and development infrastructure. Logical server management operations are used to rapidly activate and deactivate test and development environments, to quickly repurpose infrastructure without reinstallation. Resources may be pooled and shared, improving utilization and reducing cost.
In this scenario, a logical server is deactivated to make a blade available to activate a higher-priority logical server.
In this use case, VMware ESX hosts are quickly and consistently provisioned using the infrastructure orchestration capabilities of the HP Matrix Operating Environment.
In this scenario, a VMware ESX host is provisioned from a reusable infrastructure orchestration template.
Use the HP Matrix infrastructure orchestration capabilities to accelerate delivery of shared infrastructure services, while reducing complexity, cutting costs, and improving reliability. Use of capacity planning can help to contain server sprawl, improve utilization, and achieve space and power efficiencies. Finally, you can freely move workloads, during planned or unplanned downtime, to ensure and increase availability.
This use case highlights the use of real-time capacity planning capabilities to quickly and easily consolidate workloads in an energy-efficient manner. The use of capacity planning scenarios, such as Automated System Consolidation to VMs, along with the Scenario Comparison Report feature, makes it easy to compare energy consumption of different data center configurations, enabling better use of power, cooling and space resources. Consideration of the power implications of different scenarios, in addition to CPU, memory, network, and disk utilization, makes it easy to consolidate workloads for increased power efficiency, as well as provision and redeploy servers in an energy-efficient manner.
In this scenario, consolidation of legacy servers to VMware ESX virtual machines is planned.
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This use case highlights the use of real-time capacity planning and logical server management to complement long-term consolidation projects with ongoing optimization, and quickly rebalance and repurpose physical and virtual servers to respond to changing business priorities. Continuous consolidation can help to contain server sprawl, improve utilization, and achieve space and power efficiencies in the data center.
In this scenario, VMware ESX virtual machine logical servers are consolidated to fewer virtual machine hosts when resource requirements are lower.
This use case highlights the use of real-time capacity planning and logical server management to complement long-term consolidation projects with ongoing optimization, and quickly rebalance and repurpose physical and virtual servers to respond to changing business priorities. Continuous consolidation can help to contain server sprawl, improve utilization, and achieve space and power efficiencies in the data center.
In this scenario, Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machine logical servers are consolidated to fewer virtual machine hosts when resource requirements are lower.
This use case highlights the use of logical server management to freely move workloads, during planned or unplanned downtime, to increase availability. Using the logical server move capability during planned downtime can reduce maintenance windows considerably, when compared to the time needed to bring a server down for the entire duration of the maintenance work.
In this scenario, a logical server is moved to a blade of similar capacity, so maintenance can be completed on the source blade.
HP CloudSystem Matrix provides advanced provisioning and management of applications and infrastructure with industry best practice templates, a highly flexible architecture with advanced workload optimization and metering, service assurance, application lifecycle management, security, and compliance.
This use case highlights sharing of Matrix data center resources among different tenants. While data center resources are shared, information security and privacy are maintained between the virtual infrastructure orchestration systems used by different tenant organizations.
In this scenario, an IT administrator configures a new tenant organization, and assigns resources to the tenant. An organization administrator configures tenant organization server pools, and customizes the organization portals. An organization user deploys a new service.
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