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    Hybrid Cloud Management with Red Hat CloudForms
    Hybrid Cloud Management with Red Hat CloudForms
    Hybrid Cloud Management with Red Hat CloudForms
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    Hybrid Cloud Management with Red Hat CloudForms

    By Sangram Rath

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    About this ebook

    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPackt Publishing
    Release dateAug 27, 2015
    ISBN9781785286438
    Hybrid Cloud Management with Red Hat CloudForms
    Author

    Sangram Rath

    Sangram Rath is a Co-founder and cloud architect at Voverc and has 10 years of IT experience, primarily in the cloud computing and virtualization domains. He is also a freelance consultant and trainer and works on delivering solutions and trainings on OpenStack, Microsoft Azure, and AWS. In the past, he has worked for companies such as Hewlett-Packard, Microland, Mphasis, Bristlecone, and a start-up called CloudThat Technologies. He took his first computer lesson at the age of 6 and knew that this was where he wanted to head. Sangram has a bachelor's degree in computer applications from Bangalore University and many technical certifications, such as Mirantis Certified Administrator on OpenStack; Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer: Azure Solutions Architect, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, VMware Certified Professional; and many more to his credit. He is an avid reader and a foodie. He loves traveling and capturing moments through a lens. When he's not working, he loves spending time with his pet Labrador, Junior, in his hometown of Jeypore, Odisha, India.

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      Hybrid Cloud Management with Red Hat CloudForms - Sangram Rath

      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 Red Hat CloudForms

      Dashboard

      Widgets

      Adding a widget

      Widget tasks from the dashboard

      Creating widgets

      Reports

      Creating a new report

      The Columns tab

      The Consolidation tab

      The Formatting tab

      The Styling tab

      The Filter tab

      The Summary tab

      The Charts tab

      The Timeline tab

      The Preview tab

      Running a report

      Viewing and downloading reports

      Other report operations

      Importing/exporting reports

      Usage

      Chargeback

      Creating a Chargeback rate

      Assigning a Chargeback rate

      Creating a Chargeback report

      Alerts

      Creating a new alert

      Creating an alert example

      Other alert operations

      SmartState analysis

      SmartProxy

      Running a SmartState analysis

      Summary

      9. Optimizing Using Red Hat CloudForms

      Optimization

      Collecting capacity and utilization data

      Enabling data collection

      Prerequisites for capacity and utilization data collection

      Red Hat Enterprise virtualization

      The Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack platform

      Data collection

      Charts

      Viewing capacity and utilization charts

      Utilization

      Viewing utilization trends

      Planning for new virtual machines

      Bottlenecks

      Summary

      10. APIs for Red Hat CloudForms

      Supported APIs

      REST API

      Accessing REST APIs

      Content types

      Supported HTTP methods for REST API

      Accessing collections, resources, and subcollections

      Collections

      Resources

      Subcollections

      Further reading on REST APIs for Red Hat CloudForms

      SOAP APIs

      Calling a Web Services Description Language (WSDL)

      Further reading on SOAP APIs for Red Hat CloudForms

      Summary

      Index

      Hybrid Cloud Management with Red Hat CloudForms

      Hybrid Cloud Management with Red Hat CloudForms

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      Credits

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      Sangram Rath

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      About the Author

      Sangram Rath is a Co-founder and cloud architect at Voverc and has 10 years of IT experience, primarily in the cloud computing and virtualization domains. He is also a freelance consultant and trainer and works on delivering solutions and trainings on OpenStack, Microsoft Azure, and AWS. In the past, he has worked for companies such as Hewlett-Packard, Microland, Mphasis, Bristlecone, and a start-up called CloudThat Technologies.

      He took his first computer lesson at the age of 6 and knew that this was where he wanted to head. Sangram has a bachelor's degree in computer applications from Bangalore University and many technical certifications, such as Mirantis Certified Administrator on OpenStack; Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer: Azure Solutions Architect, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, VMware Certified Professional; and many more to his credit.

      He is an avid reader and a foodie. He loves traveling and capturing moments through a lens. When he's not working, he loves spending time with his pet Labrador, Junior, in his hometown of Jeypore, Odisha, India.

      I would like to thank my family and friends for the support and encouragement.

      About the Reviewers

      Kyung Huh is a senior consultant at Red Hat and is based in Korea. He has been working with Linux and open source software for more than 15 years as an instructor and a consultant. He has a lot of experience in implementing virtualization and cloud infrastructures such as Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and Red Hat OpenStack Platform on the field.

      Marcus Young recently graduated with a degree in computer science and mathematics. Then he got involved in system administration and DevOps. He currently works in software automation using open source tools and technologies. His hobbies include playing ice hockey and homebrewing beer. He also enjoys hardware projects based on microcontrollers and single-board computers.

      He has written Implementing Cloud Design Patterns for AWS, Packt Publishing.

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