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Figure 10. Self-service deployment portal with "push-button" activation
The advantages of separating the infrastructure design and the deployment are significant:
• Clear separation of roles, responsibility, and authorization – By separating roles and privileges
between the design and the deployment phases, organizations can follow any desired
organizational model for administrators.
• Leverage of high-value architectural talent – Designers are not required to duplicate their efforts for
every new deployment of an existing class of service.
• Enforcement of internal standards – Because new service instances are deployed from the templates
and are subject to optional embedded workflows for required approvals, internal policies can be
rigidly enforced at deployment time.
• Improved quality – Industry experience has shown that standards coupled with a consistent process
leads to fewer errors, reduced service interruptions, faster service availability, and lower
operational cost.
• Streamlining of application deployment – Early user experience has shown a major reduction in
deployment times for complex environments. After the initial time invested in designing templates
and workflows, the actual deployments can be done in hours rather than weeks.
Additionally, Insight Recovery allows administrators to configure primary and recovery sites and
storage recovery groups for logical servers, allowing automated disaster recovery of logical server
environments. With a simple one-button failover, HP Insight Recovery transfers application
environments running on HP BladeSystem or in VMware virtual machines to a recovery site, located
away from the original site impacted by a disaster. HP Insight Recovery uses the Continuous Access
capabilities of HP storage environments to ensure that application data is properly transitioned to the
recovery location.
Applications within an HP Insight Recovery environment do not need to be "cluster aware," since the
disaster recovery capabilities are handled at the logical server level for physical and virtual
environments. This means that any application can take advantage of HP Insight Recovery's benefits
within an HP Insight Dynamics – VSE environment
For more information, see the following websites:
www.hp.com/go/insightrecovery
www.hp.com/go/insightorchestration
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