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From: Frank Zhang <Frank.Zhang@citrix.com>
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Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 16:03:03 -0800
Subject: RE: [PROPOSAL] Integrate Cisco UCS with CloudStack
Thread-Topic: [PROPOSAL] Integrate Cisco UCS with CloudStack
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> On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 2:06 PM, Frank Zhang <Frank.Zhang@citrix.com> wrot=
e:
> > 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 informati=
on
> 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 "administrat=
or"
> as the person responsible for the overall cloud service, including the ph=
ysical
> infrastructure.  Similarly the "user" is the end user that seeks to creat=
e 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 matc=
hes
> his Service Profile requirement for a cluster),
> >         selects an available blade, selects a Baremetal template and ad=
ds 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 leveragin=
g
> UCS's  vlan programming feature. There is a high level PRD for full featu=
res 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!
> >
> >
> >
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> Hey Frank,
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> 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?
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> -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=20
some proposal shortly.
	However, the UCS integration is actually separate from CloudStack baremeta=
l.
It's about how to make UCS cooperate with CloudStack, and baremetal could b=
e the
first consumer of this feature.


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