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1 General .................................................................................................................................................. 2

2 What’s New? ......................................................................................................................................... 6

3 Features and Functions ......................................................................................................................... 9

4 Supported Components ...................................................................................................................... 11

5 Cloud Maps ......................................................................................................................................... 13

6 CloudSystem Matrix with partners. .................................................................................................... 14

7 Ordering CloudSystem Matrix ............................................................................................................. 15

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1 General

1.1 What is HP CloudSystem? HP CloudSystem is the most complete, integrated, open platform that enables enterprises and service

providers to build and manage cloud services. Based on proven, market-leading HP Converged

Infrastructure and Cloud Service Automation, HP CloudSystem integrates servers, storage, networking,

security, and management to automate the infrastructure-to-application lifecycle for hybrid service

delivery management. The result is a complete cloud solution that lets enterprises gain agility and

speed, and allows service providers to drive top-line growth. As a part of the HP Converged Cloud

architecture, clients have a simplified, integrated platform that is easier to manage and provides

flexibility and portability between private, public, and managed clouds.

For more information on HP CloudSystem please see the HP CloudSystem internal web site

[http://intranet.hp.com/tsg/ww3/CISalesPortal/Pages/CloudSystem.aspx#] and the HP CloudSystem

FAQ [https://storage.corp.hp.com/Document_Storage/QandA/CloudSystem_FAQ_Part_1_general.pdf]

1.2 What are the HP CloudSystem offerings? Based on proven, market leading HP Cloud Service Automation and Converged Infrastructure, HP

CloudSystem is tailored for the requirements of enterprises and service providers at various stages of

cloud maturity with three offerings:

• CloudSystem Matrix: HP CloudSystem Matrix is Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) for private and hybrid

cloud environments, allowing users to provision infrastructure in minutes for physical and virtual. This

offering includes a self-service infrastructure portal for quick auto-provisioning, along with built-in

lifecycle management to optimize infrastructure, manage the resource pools, and help ensure uptime.

Matrix is integrated by design with broad support of heterogeneous environments including cloud-

bursting to a variety of public cloud providers including HP Cloud Services.

• CloudSystem Enterprise: HP CloudSystem Enterprise lets customers unify management for IaaS, SaaS

and PaaS, across traditional environments as well as private, public and hybrid clouds and adds

advanced infrastructure-to-application lifecycle management, for IT and Line of business users. This

includes HP CloudSystem Matrix, HP Cloud Service Automation (CSA), and implementation services.

• CloudSystem Service Provider: Advanced capabilities for service providers with HP CloudSystem

Service Provider, facilitating deployment of public and hosted private clouds that deliver complete

service aggregation and management. HP is also working with strategic partners, utilizing HP

CloudSystem Service Provider as the core building block, to extend provider reach into new and existing

markets faster with increased revenue opportunities. HP CloudSystem Service Provider includes market-

leading HP Converged Infrastructure, HP Cloud Service Automation, HP Aggregation platform for SaaS

(AP4SaaS), and a set of pre-packaged, ready to launch cloud services.


CloudSystem is optimized for HP Converged Infrastructure technology, including HP 3PAR Utility Storage

the high-performance FlexNetwork architecture from HP Networking, mission-critical HP-UX, and

comprehensive security capabilities. HP CloudSystem also supports third-party servers, storage and

networking to protect customers’ investments. Clients who have already invested in HP Converged

Infrastructure and HP Software technology can easily expand their current architectures to achieve a

private, public or complete hybrid cloud environment with HP.

1.3 What service types can be defined, created and consumed with Matrix

OE? Matrix OE provides capabilities to define, create, consume and manage the lifecycle of infrastructure

services, also known as Infrastructure-as-a-Service. These are services consisting of virtual, physical or

Public Cloud servers and their associated virtual/physical storage, and network connections that can be

provisioned on-demand from a self-service portal.

1.4 Who are the key target customers for HP CloudSystem Matrix? The HP CloudSystem Matrix is ideal for:

• Enterprises needing optimized, continuous consolidation -- built-in capacity planning and unlimited

migrations for all servers with Smart Solver technology for best-fit advice for utilization of capacity;

accelerate and standardize your process for migration from rack servers to blades

• Large customers implementing data center transformation, internal cloud or shared services models --

enforce your best-practice architectural designs and processes; and simplify service and application

delivery to lines of business with self-service portal

• Service providers – provide streamlined service delivery with self-service portals for dedicated

customers; improve forecasting and capacity planning for your customers.

1.5 What are the proven benefits of HP CloudSystem Matrix? HP CloudSystem Matrix paves the way to a hybrid, private cloud. Once the CloudSystem Matrix solution

is installed and the service catalogs with templates and workflows have been defined, provisioning

infrastructure with configured applications can be done quickly. In one case of a multi-tiered e-Shopping

service, it took a total of just 108 minutes (to kick off the provisioning of the service from the Matrix self-

service portal to having an up and running service). The previous process for this HP customer to bring

up a similar service was 33 days. In another example, it took just 17 minutes to provision a service that

included 10 virtual machines along with their storage and network connections. For some customers,

the typical process can be even months long due to planning and coordination processes.

And all this is done in a cost-efficient way: CloudSystem Matrix lets customers take costs out today and

keep them out tomorrow. You can transform the economics of your data center by doubling


administrator productivity and lowering total cost of ownership up to 56% versus traditional

infrastructure.

1.6 What is in the HP CloudSystem Matrix? Are there any new or unique

technologies in the HP CloudSystem Matrix that I can’t already buy from

HP? The HP CloudSystem Matrix integrates the delivery of proven HP BladeSystem technologies such as

Virtual Connect Flex-10 or FlexFabric, Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager, HP CloudSystem Matrix

software, Factory Express Services and implementation services. Options can also include HP Storage,

HP Networking, HP security products and 3rd party operating system and hypervisor licenses.

HP CloudSystem Matrix converges these capabilities together in an easy-to-order package that comes

with complete factory and implementation services. The HP CloudSystem Matrix efficiently delivers

infrastructure in ‘building blocks’ directly to customers. The purchase price of the HP CloudSystem

Matrix is about 12 to 14% (before adding server blades and storage) less expensive than ordering the

individual components separately and is at least 20% faster to order and implement to be ready for user

operations.

1.7 Why should I sell the full CloudSystem Matrix solution instead of the

component technologies? Four reasons:

1. The CloudSystem Matrix solution simplifies and accelerates the ordering, delivery, and

installation process. It includes complete factory and implementation services that take the hassle out of

configuration verification and installation so it’s much faster to order and be ready for user operations.

2. The included CloudSystem Matrix implementation services include site preparation and the

basic integration of the solution into the existing customer environment.

3. Once installed, it is supported as one environment, NOT as individual components. The support

organization knows about the whole CloudSystem Matrix environment and can ensure in a support

situation to consult based on the whole environment and not just the component, i.e. dependencies are

taken into account

4. The purchase price of CloudSystem Matrix is less expensive than the individual components.

Bottom line, CloudSystem Matrix allows HP to focus our customer engagements around ‘data center

infrastructure’ rather than ‘data center technologies’. CloudSystem Matrix efficiently delivers

infrastructure in ‘building blocks’ directly to customers. This enables us to engage at a much more

strategic level in our accounts. But, for some customers, CloudSystem Matrix may be too big of a leap. If

your customer isn’t ready or right for CloudSystem Matrix, use the discussion opportunity to sell HP

BladeSystem, Virtual Connect, Insight Control, planning and assessment services, etc.


1.8 Who in my customer should I talk to about CloudSystem Matrix? Engage at the CIO and IT Director level. The higher in the organization you engage, the more you can

focus the conversation on infrastructure, people and process changes required vs. just the technologies.

When you engage with CIO’s, focus on business metrics – how much money can they save? How much

faster can they do things? When engaging with IT Directors, discuss the business metrics and also help

them understand how it will work in their specific environment. While Systems Administrators can be

important advocates, they don’t have the budgetary authority to approve a CloudSystem Matrix

purchase, nor the internal influence to drive process change to take maximum advantage of what

CloudSystem Matrix offers. While Purchasing Managers may need to approve the final deal, they also

don’t have the full view of the business strategy.

1.9 What is the buying and implementing experience for HP CloudSystem

Matrix? What should I expect? The HP CloudSystem Matrix is a fully integrated infrastructure that is delivered and implemented in your

environment with a single complete service. The estimated delivery and fulfillment time is about 3-6

weeks after order entry for the hardware integration by HP factory and the completion of the onsite

implementation service for a basic single rack of CloudSystem Matrix. The order process is simple and

straightforward, and the step by step details can be found in the QuickSpecs at

http://www.hp.com/go/matrix.

1.10 Where can I find HP CloudSystem Matrix demos? HP CloudSystem Matrix demos are available on the HP Solution Demo Portal. These include pre-

recorded demos available to all users. For HP employees and partners who are logged into the system,

they also have the capability to download the pre-recorded demos as well as request live demos. HP

CloudSystem Matrix demos are available at http://www.hp.com/go/matrixdemos.

1.11 Is there a trial version of HP CloudSystem Matrix? There is a 90 day, virtual machine only trial version of HP CloudSystem Matrix. It can run on any x86

server supported by a VMware ESX, Microsoft Hyper-V, or Red Hat RHEL KVM. The trial version is

available at http://www.hp.com/go/trycloudsystem.

1.12 What are the main advantages of using Matrix OE infrastructure

templates with Cloud Service Automation in a CloudSystem Enterprise

Solution?

Matrix OE infrastructure templates provide many capabilities to define infrastructure services. Many of

these capabilities are not available in competitors’ offerings and are unique to Matrix OE. Here are some

of the capabilities provided by Matrix OE infrastructure templates:

• Supports both physical server (x86 and Integrity blades) and virtual server provisioning

http://www.hp.com/go/matrix

http://www.hp.com/go/matrixdemos

http://www.hp.com/go/trycloudsystem


• Supports multiple hypervisor technologies – VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, RedHat KVM,

HP Integrity VM

• Supports provisioning of public cloud compute resources including AWS EC2 and HP Cloud

Services

• Supports provisioning of storage and network infrastructure associated with compute

infrastructure

• Supports associating multiple VMware vCenter servers with a single Matrix OE (CMS)

instance

• Support Cloud Maps (pre-packaged service design templates) that help to accelerate service

creation for common business applications

In addition, Matrix OE has a rich suite of management capabilities including disaster recovery, capacity

planning and management, usage analytics and chargeback/showback capabilities. Please see HP

CloudSystem Matrix Solution Brief for a summary of Matrix OE capabilities at

http://h20195.www2.hp.com/V2/GetDocument.aspx?docname=4AA2-8530ENW&cc=us&lc=en.

1.13 How can an infrastructure service defined in Matrix OE be made available

in a CSA service catalog? Infrastructure services defined in Matrix OE can be made available in a CSA service catalog without

requiring the service to be redesigned. However, before the service can be added to the CSA service

catalog and accessed via the CSA consumer portal, the service has to be turned into an “offering” by

associating some business terms, such as offering price with the service. These activities can be done

through the CSA Service Designer portal.

1.14 How do I define a service in CSA that deploys resources managed by

Matrix OE? The recommended approach is to design the infrastructure service using the Matrix OE designer portal

and create an infrastructure template to represent the service definition. Then reference this

infrastructure template (and the infrastructure service it represents) from a platform/application service

defined in CSA. CSA will broker the request for resources to Matrix OE.

2 What’s New?

2.1 What’s new with CloudSystem Matrix 7.2? Matrix Operating Environment (Matrix OE) version 7.2 adds a number of new features.

Unparalleled choice by letting customers manage even more cloud resources

http://h20195.www2.hp.com/V2/GetDocument.aspx?docname=4AA2-8530ENW&cc=us&lc=en


• Simplify cloud management by providing consistent management of cloud services

regardless of underlying technology – now supports RHEL KVM virtual machines in addition to

hypervisors from VMware, Microsoft, and physical servers

• Protect existing investments: Current CloudSystem customers can add KVM support

leveraging OpenStack technologies without disrupting management of existing cloud services

Out of the box bursting options let enterprise customers broker service delivery across more clouds

from a single, integrated control point and open new revenue opportunities for service providers

• New support for CloudSystem-to-CloudSystem bursting allows teams within enterprises

to share resources across multiple CloudSystems within their enterprise without losing control.

• New bursting connector makes it easier for CloudSystem-based service providers to

deliver pay-as-you-go capacity to their CloudSystem customers. The connector enables the

Matrix OE to process CloudSystem bursting requests, and can be used out-of-the-box, or can be

customized for seamless integration into a service provider’s environment.

2.2 What’s new with CloudSystem Matrix 7.1? Matrix OE 7.1 adds the following new capabilities:

• Burst your cloud to an even broader set of CloudSystem bursting partners: HP Cloud

Services (first OpenStack-based bursting target) and Amazon EC2

• Build a virtual cloud with HP CloudSystem Matrix software in a day

o Delivered through Matrix Operating Environment

o Allows you to build a virtual cloud environment on any platform supported by VMware

and MS HyperV within a day

o Supports HP and non-HP

• Address service sprawl with added flexibility during service creation and/or run-time

o Change VM Memory Size or number of CPUs at creation and run-time

o Customize network attributes at creation time

o Integrate load balancers into the service design and deployment

• Manage cloud cost allocation with HP or partner capabilities

o Improved built-in chargeback and analytics capabilities with Matrix

o Partner with CloudCruiser for advanced capabilities across private/hybrid/public cloud

and traditional IT environments

• Manage your service recovery in DR situations

o Protection of provisioned services, not just servers (IO/RM integration)

o Increased scalability to 2000+ for recovered services

o Asynchronous (>200km) 3PAR FC DR support for ProLiant

• Increase your flexibility with cloud management

o Support VM Templates With Data Disks

o Add Arbitrary Data Disks to a Service

o Attach physical disk (LUN) to a VM


o Support ‘remove server’ operation

• Manage up to 12,000 virtual machines in federated mode

o Up from 10,000 previously

2.3 What’s New with CloudSystem Matrix 7.0? Matrix 7.0 adds the following new capabilities:

• New bursting capability, specifically with the service provider Savvis. Cloudbursting will

allow an IT administrator to provision services beyond the "private cloud" managed by

Matrix 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 the usage is

complete, offering optimized cost as well as flexible use when needs require resources

beyond the scope of the private cloud.

• Improvements in scalability by allowing provisioning of VM's up to 10,000 via the federated

CMS architecture that was first enabled in Matrix 6.3. In the area of multi-tenancy, Matrix

7.0 provides enhancements in the management of VLANs, specifically allowing secure multi-

tenancy through better separation of VLANs between different private cloud users.

• Enhancements to storage provisioning by offering the ability to automatically provision

storage LUNs during the deployment of a service. This capability will is offered for both EVA

and 3PAR FC storage arrays, and is built on enhancements to the existing Storage

Provisioning Manager interface introduced in version 6.3 and is included with Matrix.

• In terms of disaster recovery, Matrix 7.0 offers integration with 3PAR storage replication for

automated recovery management of server profiles, in the same fashion that Matrix already

supports EVA and XP storage replication.

• Additional best-practice solutions via the CloudMaps program, including templates,

workflows and sizers for key application providers utilizing the Matrix solution. Additional

APIs have been introduced, supporting key customer and partner requests.

2.4 What’s New with CloudSystem Matrix 6.3?

With the release of version 6.3 of Insight Dynamics, HP continues to make is easier to gain the benefits

of a private cloud today.

• Feature: Support for 3PAR FC for Storage Provisioning Manager (in addition to XP & EVA)

o Benefit: Expanded support of storage pool management and easier to manage storage

pools.

• Feature: 4X increase in scalability for service-catalog-based auto-provisioning in ‘federated

mode’

o Benefit: With ever increasing virtual machine density and the need to manage more-

and-more template-based workloads from a single-pane of glass, Insight Dyanmics


offers you the ability to orchestrate up to 6000 VMs using a ‘federated CMS’

environment (Central Management Server). Aggregated management results in more

money saved, and greater efficiency.

• Feature: Increased multi-tenancy and chargeback including user-group support and location

code

o Benefit: Capacity planning and chargeback-ready tools now include the ability to sort by

location or group so that chargeback tracking – or even links extended to billing – allows

for better segmentation and control of multiple “tenants” within a cloud environment

making tracking and chargeback more straight-forward with direct attribution to the

actual users.

• Feature: New Cloud Maps. (details at www.hp.com/go/cloudmaps)

o Benefit: Accelerates automation of business applications so you can reliably and

consistently fast track the implementation of service catalogs. Saves days or weeks of

time architecting infrastructure and ensures that every time you implement an

environment, it’s consistent.

3 Features and Functions

3.1 How does HP CloudSystem Matrix support a hybrid cloud strategy? HP CloudSystem Matrix provisions physical and virtual infrastructure services in a data center. However,

it also allows bursting to a public cloud provider such as HP Cloud Services, Amazon Web Services, or

Savvis. In addition, HP CloudSystem Matrix allows customers to utilize bursting techniques to utilize

resources from other HP CloudSystem Matrix environments in other data centers. Finally, HP

CloudSystem Matrix allows service providers to customize the bursting provider to allow HP

CloudSystem customers to burst to a CloudSystem-based managed or public cloud service provider.

Additional information on HP CloudSystem Matrix bursting is available in the HP CloudSystem Bursting

FAQ at

http://pit.houston.hp.com/PIT/ESSN/Document_Storage/QandA/HP_CloudSystem_Bursting_FAQ.docx

or the Bursting with HP CloudSystem white paper at

http://h20195.www2.hp.com/V2/GetDocument.aspx?docname=4AA3-6847ENW&cc=us&lc=en.

3.2 Does CloudSystem provide physical server provisioning? Yes, CloudSystem Matrix can provision physical blade servers along with virtual and cloud-based servers.

When defining services using the Matrix OE infrastructure template, you can designate a server, or a

server group, as a physical server resource, and Matrix OE will provision those server(s) as physical

servers when the infrastructure defined in the template is actually realized during service creation.

Matrix OE requires BladeSystem servers with Virtual Connect to deploy physical servers, although it can

provision virtual machines on any x86 server.

http://pit.houston.hp.com/PIT/ESSN/Document_Storage/QandA/HP_CloudSystem_Bursting_FAQ.docx



3.3 Does CloudSystem Matrix support HP Proliant servers (DL or ML server

lines) or non-HP x86 servers as compute resource pools? For physical server provisioning, CloudSystem Matrix supports HP BladeSystem servers with Virtual

Connect. However, Matrix OE can provision virtual machines on any x86 servers supported by RHEL

KVM, VMware ESXi and Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisors.

3.4 Will OpenStack technology replace current HP solutions like HP

CloudSystem? Absolutely not. CloudSystem will remain the flagship, integrated offering for clients looking to build,

manage and secure private, managed and public clouds. CloudSystem will leverage the modular design

of the Converged Cloud architecture and the value delivered by OpenStack technology.

HP will incorporate OpenStack technologies into the core infrastructure management architecture of

HP’s CloudSystem to enable access to resource pools across private, public, and managed clouds. HP will

integrate these technologies with HP Converged Infrastructure and HP Converged Management and

Security to build an integrated, out-of-the-box solution that continues to provide the robustness of an

enterprise grade solution with capabilities like cloud service and application life cycle management and

recovery management delivered in HP CloudSystem today.

In fact, HP CloudSystem Matrix utilizes OpenStack to provide KVM resources pools, burst to other

CloudSystem Matrix installations, and burst to HP Cloud Services. Additional details are available in the

CloudSystem OpenStack FAQ at

https://pit.houston.hp.com/pit/essn/document_storage/collateral/cloudsystem_openstack_faq_final.p

df and the CloudSystem Matrix KVM Technical Brief at http://www.hp.com/go/cloudsystem/4AA4-

4351ENW.

3.5 How does HP CloudSystem Matrix work with Operations Orchestration? Matrix OE uses two complementary orchestration engines.

Matrix OE infrastructure orchestration (IO): IO is a core element of the Matrix OE, responsible

for coordinating with other subsystems such as Insight Control server deployment, Ignite-UX, or

HP Server Automation to provision infrastructure defined in a Matrix OE infrastructure

template.

Embedded Operations Orchestration: There is an embedded version of Operations

Orchestration that is used for IO initiated workflows during the provisioning process, such as

updating a load-balancer configuration. Matrix OE can use the embedded Operations

Orchestration or point to an existing Operations Orchestration server if the customer is already

using Operations Orchestration.

For more information, including details on the differences between embedded Operations Orchestration

in CloudSystem Matrix and the full version of Operations Orchestration, please see the presentation at

http://intranet.hp.com/tsg/WW2/ess-swmarketing/Documents/OO_Subset_110118.pptx.

http://www.hp.com/go/cloudsystem/4AA4-4351ENW

http://www.hp.com/go/cloudsystem/4AA4-4351ENW

http://intranet.hp.com/tsg/WW2/ess-swmarketing/Documents/OO_Subset_110118.pptx


3.6 Does CloudSystem Matrix support show-back and chargeback? Show-back is the report of services provided, with or without associated costs, without a cost transfer,

while chargeback is when those costs are allocated to business units or users via a cost transfer.

CloudSystem Matrix collects cost information on the provisioned services. This information is available

through CloudSystem Matrix’s reporting capabilities and through an externally accessible API to

incorporate the information into external reporting products. In addition, HP partner Cloud Cruiser

offers an advanced cost management solution that has out-of-the-box integration with HP CloudSystem.

Additional information is available in the Cost Management with CloudSystem presentation at

https://pit.houston.hp.com/PIT/ESSN/Document_Storage/Presentations/Cost_Mgmt_Solutions_for__Cl

oudSystem.pptx and the Collecting Usage data for Show-back, Charge-back and Billing purpose white

paper at http://h20195.www2.hp.com/V2/GetDocument.aspx?docname=4AA3-

8068ENW&cc=us&lc=en. More information on Cloud Cruiser can be found at

http://www.cloudcruiser.com or by contacting Cloud Cruiser at [email protected].

3.7 How does HP CloudSystem Matrix grow beyond IaaS? One of the advantages of a HP CloudSystem portfolio of offerings is that customers can start small and

grow tall. Customers can start with a single HP BladeSystem chassis delivered as a turnkey

Infrastructure-as-a-Service solution with CloudSystem Matrix. This allows organizations to start to

understand the people and process impacts that will happen with private cloud. However, when

organizations are ready to grow, they build on top of their existing solutions. They can expand their IaaS

services to incorporate their existing infrastructure. However, they can also mature and move to

application provisioning with full life cycle management by adding Cloud Service Automation to their

CloudSystem Matrix environment, creating a CloudSystem Enterprise solution. Likewise, if they want to

provide services to external organizations, they can add Aggregation Platform for SaaS (AP4SaaS) to

their CloudSystem Enterprise to create a CloudSystem Service Provider solution.

For additional details on Cloud Service Automation, AP4SaaS, and other related products, please see the

HP CloudSystem internal site at

http://intranet.hp.com/tsg/ww3/CISalesPortal/Pages/CloudSystem.aspx# and the HP CloudSystem

Technical FAQ at

https://storage.corp.hp.com/Document_Storage/QandA/CloudSystem_FAQ_Part_2_technical.pdf.

4 Supported Components

4.1 What are the supported components? Please see the most current HP CloudSystem Matrix Compatibility Chart at:

http://www.hp.com/go/matrixcompatibility.

4.2 Does HP CloudSystem Matrix support HP ProLiant and Integrity blade

servers? Yes.

https://pit.houston.hp.com/PIT/ESSN/Document_Storage/Presentations/Cost_Mgmt_Solutions_for__CloudSystem.pptx

https://pit.houston.hp.com/PIT/ESSN/Document_Storage/Presentations/Cost_Mgmt_Solutions_for__CloudSystem.pptx



http://www.cloudcruiser.com/

mailto:[email protected]

http://intranet.hp.com/tsg/ww3/CISalesPortal/Pages/CloudSystem.aspx

http://www.hp.com/go/matrixcompatibility


The ordering process for HP Integrity blade servers in addition to ProLiant can also be found in the HP

CloudSystem Matrix for HP-UX QuickSpecs available at www.hp.com/go/matrix

4.3 Does CloudSystem support HP-UX compute pools?

Yes. Matrix OE supports can deploy HP-UX in 2 ways:

Deploy to bare-metal HP Integrity servers

Deploy to Integrity Virtual Machines running on HP Integrity host servers

Matrix OE utilizes Ignite-UX that HP-UX users are already familiar with to provision in both of these

scenarios.

4.4 Can I add third party components or is this a closed system? Because it is a standards-based solution, CloudSystem Matrix integrates with existing environments—

networks, SANs, applications, operating systems, and hypervisors. CloudSystem Matrix is:

Support for most common operating systems and hypervisors

Matrix supports these native server operating systems: Microsoft Windows Server, HP-UX, Red Hat

Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES).

CloudSystem Matrix supports VMware ESX, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Red Hat RHEL KVM hypervisors as

well as HP Integrity Virtual Machines.

For the latest and most complete information on CloudSystem Matrix compatibility, see

www.hp.com/go/matrixcompatibility.

Compatible with non-HP x86 servers

CloudSystem Matrix requires HP BladeSystem with Virtual Connect to perform a physical server

deployment. However, CloudSystem Matrix can also manage VMware, Hyper-V, and RHEL KVM virtual

machines on any of the hypervisor vendor supported x86 servers as long as the hypervisor is installed.

Compatible with existing networks

Matrix connects seamlessly to existing Ethernet networks. Because Virtual Connect is a layer-2 bridge,

not a switch, it integrates smoothly with any existing network. HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 and FlexFabric

interoperate with any industry standard Ethernet switch while providing 4-to-1 network hardware

consolidation of the server NICs and interconnect modules.

Compatible with existing SANs


HP CloudSystem Matrix works with all fiber channel SAN arrays that are certified with BladeSystem c-

Class and Virtual Connect. See: http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/blades/components/c-class-

sans.html. The shared storage for logical server boot and data disks can be any pre-presented Fiber

Channel LUN. In addition, iSCSI is supported as a virtual machine backing store. While in most cases the

storage resources must be pre-provisioned, there are additional capabilities with HP 3Par storage such

as on demand provisioning.

Integration with IT and business operations

HP Cloud APIs enable CloudSystem Matrix integration with IT and business processes. Examples include

linking into billing or chargeback systems and customizing the self-service portal to reflect company

branding and standards. APIs also enable integration of Insight Software for Matrix management with

enterprise management systems like HP Software and those from Computer Associates and Tivoli used

to manage the broader IT environment.

4.5 Can I use Storage Provisioning Manager when CloudSystem is directly

connected to a 3PAR array (3PAR Flat SAN configuration)?

No. Storage Provisioning Manager (SPM) provides the capability to create storage pools for Matrix

physical environments when CloudSystem Matrix is installing an operating system or hypervisor on a

bare-metal server. Currently, both CloudSystem Matrix and SPM are not aware of the new Virtual

Connect “direct attach” path versus today’s “fiber attach” path to enable this to work.

5 Cloud Maps

5.1 What are HP Cloud Maps? HP Cloud Maps provide the fastest way to create new application service delivering repeatable, proven

deployments to lower risk and assure optimized performance and service levels. Quickly create new

cloud service offerings for HP CloudSystem and HP Cloud Service Automation, in less than an hour with

Cloud Maps.

HP Cloud Maps are:

Pre-packaged application templates integrating decades of HP and ISV expertise

Customized catalogs of application services ready for push-button deployment

Available for applications like Oracle, Microsoft SharePoint and SAP NetWeaver with over 200

Cloud maps available


5.2 How will HP Cloud Maps help me? HP Cloud Maps accelerate automation of business applications and so you can reliably and consistently

fast track the implementation of service catalogs. Instead of architecting a new service – something that

can take up to 200 hours – an existing HP Cloud Map can be downloaded and simply customized for the

environment. This can take as little as one hour to create a new service.

5.3 How do I get a Cloud Map? Visit www.hp.com/go/cloudmaps to view and download HP Cloud Maps for popular applications like

SAP and Microsoft Exchange, as well as for infrastructure environments with VMware.

ISV, SI and SP partners can join the HP AllianceONE partner organization to access the AllianceONE

Cloud Map specialty program for support in creating CloudSystem Matrix Cloud Maps.

6 CloudSystem Matrix with partners.

6.1 What hypervisors are supported by CloudSystem 7.2? CloudSystem supports the following hypervisors:

RHEL KVM

VMware ESXi

Microsoft Hyper-V

HP Integrity Virtual Machines

6.2 How do I position CloudSystem Matrix with VMware and Microsoft? There is training available on CloudSystem with VMware and Microsoft available at

http://grow.hp.com/Saba/loginAsUser.jsp?deepLinkName=CourseDetail&deepLinkParams=courseId=00

314636. Additional material is available on the Matrix Sales Tools web site at

http://wpcfs.corp.hp.com/TSGWW2_WPC/TSG_Sales/ISS/Pages/Matrix_Internal_Tools.html#MatrixVM.

6.3 What is Autoflex and what are its benefits?

Auto flexing improves integration between HP CloudSystem Matrix and VMware vCloud Director by

automating ESXi cluster provisioning in the vCloud Director environment. The current solution supports

creating, expanding, shrinking and deleting the cluster using CloudSystem Matrix. The benefits include:

Task automation significantly reduces operator time and the opportunity for error

Ability to quickly match cloud service consumption to resource pools

Provides capability to flex current Organization VDC resources to meet business needs




For more information visit the CloudSystem Dev Resource Center

6.4 Can I use VMware vMotion to move VMs across CloudSystem Matrix

systems located in different data centers? (Update) CloudSystem Matrix does not support the online migration of virtual machines, via techniques such as

vMotion, between CloudSystem Matrix managed resources pools or between data centers. However,

CloudSystem Matrix does support the offline failover of infrastructure services using the Matrix OE

recovery management features.

6.5 Does Egenera support HP BladeSystem? On April 7th, 2011, Egenera announced their participation as an HP AllianceOne partner that has ported

their infrastructure management software to Intel-based HP BladeSystem servers and the Virtual

Connect FlexFabric module, offering HA and DR to Egenera customers.

• Egenera is now an HP AllianceOne member

• Egenera works with HP to integrate its PAN software with HP BladeSystem

c-Class architecture

• Committed to help you succeed with your customer in selecting the best-fit HP data center

automation and virtualization option.

For additional information on the Egenera relationship, see

http://storage.corp.hp.com/Document_Storage/SalesTools/Egenera_Partnership_Field_Training_v1_6.p

ptx.

7 Ordering CloudSystem Matrix

7.1 What do I need to order to get a CloudSystem Matrix? CloudSystem Matrix has a simplified ordering set up. You can order a CloudSystem Matrix starter or

expansion kit that includes hardware and software starter kits as well as the implementation services.

You then add the blades that meet the customer’s requirements. For the current bundle options and

product numbers, please see the CloudSystem Matrix Product Structure presentation at

http://storage.corp.hp.com/Document_Storage/SalesTools/Matrix_Product_Structure.pptx.

7.2 Where do I find CloudSystem Matrix with HP-UX configuration

information? CloudSystem Matrix with HP-UX has unique configuration and ordering options. Please see the

CloudSystem Matrix with HP-UX internal site at

http://intranet.hp.com/tsg/WW2/BCS/HPUX/Pages/cloudsystem.aspx.

http://h21007.www2.hp.com/portal/site/dspp/menuitem.863c3e4cbcdc3f3515b49c108973a801/?ciid=b12ca027e0d61310VgnVCM100000a360ea10RCRD

http://storage.corp.hp.com/Document_Storage/SalesTools/Matrix_Product_Structure.pptx

http://intranet.hp.com/tsg/WW2/BCS/HPUX/Pages/cloudsystem.aspx


7.3 What is the Solution Design Review? The CloudSystem Solution Design Review is a process to ensure that the CloudSystem solutions are

properly configured, ordered, and installed to ensure that the customer’s expectations are met. More

information is available at

https://external1.collaboration.hp.com/external/SolutionDesignReview/CloudSystemSDR/Forms/MyIte

ms.aspx.