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Usage scenarios
Automated infrastructure design provisioning and management
Important terms
Insight Orchestration users
Software deployment and service provisioning

HP Insight Orchestration extends Insight Dynamics — VSE to provide rapid provisioning and repurposing of infrastructure services from shared resource pools using a self-service portal. Insight Orchestration delivers advanced template-driven design, provisioning, and on-going operations for multinode, multi-tier infrastructure services built around HP platforms:

Insight Control Environment for Blades including HP Virtual Machine Management Pack
Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager
Insight Dynamics — VSE

Insight Orchestration provides lifecycle management for groups of physical and virtual servers. Insight Orchestration includes:

Design, resource management, and self-service tools supporting the key roles of IT architect, administrator, and users of IT services
A template design environment that you use to define blueprints for provisioning servers in a service
Effective resource utilization enabled by automated resource allocation from resource pools assigned to users
Automated provisioning of virtual and physical servers, including blade hardware and virtual machine configuration, SAN boot support, operating system deployment, and operating system customization
Customizable Operations Orchestration workflows to integrate existing IT processes for approvals, operating system deployment, and storage provisioning
Ongoing management of provisioned infrastructure in order to grow, standby, and resume infrastructure services
Integration with Insight Dynamics — VSE for monitoring and maintenance of provisioned and available infrastructure services

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