Hybrid Cloud Management with Red Hat CloudForms
eBook - ePub

Hybrid Cloud Management with Red Hat CloudForms

  1. 174 pages
  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Hybrid Cloud Management with Red Hat CloudForms

About this book

Build, manage, and control an open hybrid cloud infrastructure using Red Hat CloudForms

About This Book

  • Understand the infrastructure management capabilities through monitoring and tracking techniques
  • Control the hybrid cloud infrastructure using policies and define actions based on events and conditions
  • Learn to view and use trends in the hybrid setup to perform capacity planning and optimization

Who This Book Is For

If you are an existing Red Hat administrator who is new to Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure and would like to manage and deploy Hybrid clouds, then this book is for you. Red Hat Linux administration experience is assumed.

What You Will Learn

  • Install and configure Red Hat CloudForms 3.1 in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack platform
  • Add Amazon EC2 and OpenStack as Cloud providers and adding VMware as an infrastructure provider
  • Provision an EC2 instance
  • Manage lifecycle of virtual machines and instances
  • Create custom domains, namespaces, classes, schemas, instances, and invoke automation workflows
  • Monitor and gather intelligence information about the Hybrid Cloud environment
  • Get to know about supported APIs that can be used to integrate third-party systems with Red Hat CloudForms

In Detail

The increasing adoption of the Cloud has led to enterprises having a heterogeneous IT environment that consists of both private and public cloud infrastructures, and in most cases existing virtualized infrastructures as well. As building and managing such a diverse IT infrastructure is a major challenges, Red Hat CloudForms provides a unified, consistent, and comprehensive management platform. With features like cloud intelligence dashboard, self-service portal, lifecycle management, policy-based governance, quotas, capacity management, monitoring and reporting, Red Hat CloudForms lets you manage your hybrid cloud infrastructure from a single pane of glass.

This book will equip you with a hands-on approach on how to build a hybrid cloud environment and then manage, control, and gain operational insights into it.

The book starts by showing you how to install and configure Red Hat CloudForms, and add infrastructure and cloud providers to build the hybrid cloud environment. Next, you will learn to provision virtual machines and instances to these platform providers, and manage and control the lifecycle of these resources. You will also get to know about automating provisioning.

Moving on, you'll get to grips with the management of resources using policies, events, conditions, and actions. You'll also learn to monitor these resources from a single pane of glass. Finally, the book covers viewing capacity and utilization trends to optimize the overall hybrid cloud infrastructure, and also introduces you to supported APIs.

By end of the book, you will be able to deploy and use Red Hat CloudForms.

Style and approach

This book is an easy-to-follow guide that explains all topics in a sequential manner, building upon each other to finally create and manage the Hybrid Cloud environment.

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Information

Publisher
Packt Publishing
Year
2015
eBook ISBN
9781785283574
Edition
1
Topic
Computer Science
Subtopic
Virtualisation
Index
Computer Science

Hybrid Cloud Management with Red Hat CloudForms

Table of Contents

Hybrid Cloud Management with Red Hat CloudForms
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more
Why subscribe?
Free access for Packt account holders
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Downloading the color images of this book
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Red Hat CloudForms Internals
What is a cloud management platform?
Hybrid cloud management challenges
Introducing Red Hat CloudForms
Advantages
Architecture
The components of Red Hat CloudForms
Capabilities
Benefits
Supported providers
Infrastructure providers
Cloud providers
Types of provisioning
Virtual machines
Instances
Hosts
The open source version of Red Hat CloudForms
Summary
2. Installing Red Hat CloudForms on Red Hat OpenStack
System requirements
Additional OpenStack requirements
Deploying the Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine Appliance
Obtaining the appliance
Creating the appliance image in OpenStack
Launching the appliance instance
Configuring the CloudForms Management Engine Virtual Appliance
Configuring the database
Starting the EVM server process
The Red Hat CloudForms web console
System requirements
Accessing the Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine web console
Navigating the web console
Summary
3. Building a Hybrid Cloud Environment Using Red Hat CloudForms
Adding cloud providers
Adding Amazon EC2 as a cloud provider
Adding Red Hat OpenStack as a cloud provider
Adding infrastructure providers
Adding VMware as an infrastructure provider
Adding Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization as an infrastructure provider
Authenticating infrastructure provider hosts
Viewing and editing provider information
Auto-discovering providers
Discovering cloud providers
Discovering infrastructure providers
Working with provisioning dialogs
The structure of a provisioning dialog
Customizing or creating a new provisioning dialog
Summary
4. Provisioning Instances Using Red Hat CloudForms
Introduction to provisioning
Images
Provisioning an Amazon EC2 instance
Request
Purpose
Catalog
Environment
Properties
Customize
Schedule
Provisioning an OpenStack instance
Catalogs and service catalogs
Summary
5. Life Cycle Management Using Red Hat CloudForms
Life cycle management
State machines
State machine components
Viewing a state machine
Viewing requests
Approving requests
Automatic approval
Manual approval
Other request-related tasks
Retiring instances/virtual machines
Modifying or removing the retirement date
Post-retirement scenarios
Modifying a state machine
Creating a new domain
Copying the state machine instance
Modifying the state machine instance
Other types of modifications
Quotas
Modifying quotas
Summary
6. Automation Using Red Hat CloudForms
CloudForms Management Engine Automate
The Automate organizational units
Domains
Working with the Automate model
Creating a custom domain
Creating a namespace
Creating a class
Copying a class
Creating a schema
Adding a schema
Editing and removing a schema
Reordering the schema sequence
Adding an instance
Copying an instance
Relationships
Methods
Global variable $evm
Methods hierarchy
Creating a method
Automate workflows
Summary
7. Managing Red Hat CloudForms
Policies
Events
Conditions
Actions
Types of policies
Control policy
Creating a control policy
Creating a condition
Creating an expression
Modifying or removing expressions
Adding the condition to the control policy
Setting the events
Setting the action
Compliance policy
Creating a compliance policy
Creating a new condition
Assigning the condition to the compliance policy
Simulating policies
Summary
8. Monitoring a Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure Using Re...

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