Hi Paolo,

I just checked, its possible for CSA to have a workflow for provisioning
Solaris in SPARC. Actually, we've had a local use case for this with HP
Integrity. Not sure about the other tools.

Jerome


On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 8:00 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]>
wrote:

> This is part of the greater Cloud Automation and Orchestration practice
> and borderline Business Service Management. Your peer was right to point at
> vRealize but a bit off with OpenStack. The Ironic project in OpenStack has
> promise to evolve into something you are envisioning.
>
> Your commercial options are:
>
> 1. HP Cloud Service Automation (CSA) - Disclosure (again), I work for HP
> and also handle the CSA product.
> 2. VMware vRealize
> 3. and to a certain extent, Red Hat CloudForms/ManageIQ
>
> You may also want to check out Mirantis Fuel.
>
> I'm pretty sure your UNIX requirements can only be addressed by CSA and an
> IBM solution.
>
> Jerome
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 7:43 PM, Paolo Falcone <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>>  I'd like to ask for possible hints if there are open source and
>> commercial offerings for public + private cloud controllers:
>>
>> 1. Priority is constructing an internal cloud system to repurpose
>> machines that will be freed up.
>> 2. In the event that there's not enough capacity internally, spin
>> instances in the public cloud (we use Rackspace Cloud)
>> 3. Have an interface wherein developers can select a list of profiles and
>> software collections to be configured on the vm to be provisioned. And
>> perhaps a download vm facility.
>> 4. As my employer is in the financial industry, supporting Solaris 10 is
>> a must (at least just on x86, though we do have solaris sparc and aix being
>> supported, and HPUX itanium looming on the horizon.
>>
>> Someone pointed me to both VCAC (now vrealize) and Openstack, then I
>> guess I need to weave in configuration management capabilities. Making one
>> is still in the cards though I'd definitely want to avoid that nuclear
>> option.
>>
>> Paolo
>>
>
>
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