On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 7:03 PM, Frank Zhang <frank.zh...@citrix.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 2:06 PM, Frank Zhang <frank.zh...@citrix.com> wrote:
>> > Hi community:
>> >         I'd like to propose a proposal for integrating Cisco
>> > UCS(unified computing system) with CloudStack. UCS  unifies computing,
>> > networking, management, virtualization, and storage access into a
>> > single integrated architecture. This unique architecture enables end-to-end
>> server visibility, management, and control in both bare metal and virtual
>> environments, and facilitates the move to cloud computing and IT-as-a-
>> Service with Fabric-Based Infrastructure. You can find detailed information
>> about UCS at http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10265/index.html.
>> >
>> >         The first phase is to integrate UCS with CloudStack baremetal,
>> > here is a proposed workflow to enable this.  Let us define "administrator"
>> as the person responsible for the overall cloud service, including the 
>> physical
>> infrastructure.  Similarly the "user" is the end user that seeks to create 
>> VMs.
>> >
>> > 1.      Using the CloudStack UI, the administrator adds a "Managed Host
>> Manager" of type UCS.  The admin provides API endpoint and credentials.
>> >         This gives CloudStack programmatic access to UCS Manager and an
>> identity with authorization to implement the following functions.
>> > 2.      Administrator creates a "UCS Resource Pool" per Service Profile
>> Template that he wants to use
>> > 3.      Administrator creates a Baremetal Cluster
>> > 4.      Administrator chooses the required UCS Resource pool (that matches
>> his Service Profile requirement for a cluster),
>> >         selects an available blade, selects a Baremetal template and adds 
>> > the
>> blade to the Baremetal cluster
>> > 5.      Repeat Step 4 above to add more hosts in the cluster
>> > 6.      Now user is able to start vm on baremetal host using CloudStack
>> baremetal provisioning
>> >
>> >         At first stage, I would like to limit the effort to CloudStack
>> > basic zone, however, we will seek to support advanced zone by leveraging
>> UCS's  vlan programming feature. There is a high level PRD for full features 
>> of
>> UCS-baremetal integration.
>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Enhanced+Bare
>> metal+support+on+Cisco+UCS
>> >         and JIRA ticket is here
>> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-723
>> >
>> >         please free feel to share your thoughts, thank you!
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>> Hey Frank,
>>
>> Question about this implementation...  you had mentioned last summer [1]
>> that you were thinking about redoing how standard bare metal provisioning
>> works.  Is it worth getting that sorted out first, and then enhancing it to
>> support UCS?
>>
>> -chip
>
> Hi Chip:
>         Thanks for reply. Yes I did propose a proposal couple of months ago,
> at that time the community process was not normalized and I didn't get much
> respond to that. I have done some investigation and would like to repost
> some proposal shortly.
>         However, the UCS integration is actually separate from CloudStack 
> baremetal.
> It's about how to make UCS cooperate with CloudStack, and baremetal could be 
> the
> first consumer of this feature.
>

Thanks for the answer.  That makes sense now.

+1 from me for this feature!

>>
>> [1] http://markmail.org/thread/lpfptu7wv22pexlk
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