CSA Integration for HPE Insight Control Server Provisioning via OO

By integrating HPE Cloud Service Automation (CSA) with HPE Insight Control server provisioning (ICsp) organizations can now automate OS provisioning on physical HPE ProLiant servers to create CSA service offerings that enable deployment of physical servers to offer alongside their virtual machine service offerings. 

If desired, services can even be created that deploy both VMs and physical servers as part of a single multi-tier service to enable use cases that require both the performance and reliability of physical server deployments as well as the flexibility and cost efficiency of virtualized servers. This enables a consistent CSA topology design experience to create cloud consumption of both virtual and physical server resources as part of both IaaS or SaaS focused service designs.

This integration provides both a generic ICsp OS Build Plan component as part of a sample service design as well as the ability to import new components that are directly bound to ICsp OS Build plans that exist on a HP ICsp appliance. The generic component can be used by service designers that wish to allow their users to type in which OS build plan to deploy (or select from a list); however, in most cases an imported component should be used when the service designer wants to directly control which build plan is used in the service. That latter results in the following workflow to create a new service design featuring a ICsp OS Build Plan component:

1. Service designer utilizes the ICsp web-UI or REST API to create, edit, or identify an OS Build Plan that meets the needs of their service design's business use case.
2. Service designer utilizes the Import feature from the Designs > Topology > Components page of the HP CSA Management Console to import the desired OS Build Plan from ICsp.
3. Service designer creates or edits a topology service design to utilize the newly imported OS Build Plan component to deploy an OS on a server component that implements the HP ProLiant Server capability type. 
   Note: only HPE OneView Managed server components implement this capability type out-of-the-box, but custom components that do not require HP OneView could be created to meet this requirement if desired.
4. [Optional] Service designer adds additional components to the design to deploy applications or perform additional configuration steps.  Chef, Puppet, or other topology component types that relate to the "Server" capability type can be used for this purpose.