WHAT EXACTLY DO YOU MEAN BY “CLOUD”?
THE “REMAINING”? DEFINE WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR!
Basically what we have now is an implementation of VMware Automation
Center.
What we are looking for is something that has the same or close to the same
functionality of vmware automation center without the high cost of vmware
licensing.
We have CISCO and HP blade servers with ESXi, in several pods across 3
datacenters located in 3 different cities, this we will not change.
In a nutshell we need a product that will enable clients in multiple
locations to log into a web portal answer a few questions ie type of server
(DB, APP, WEB….) size required, project name, dept name…..
From the answers to these question the product must deploy a vm in the
appropriate datacenter and appropriate pod within one of 3 datacenters, it
then assigns a name based on the question answered, assigns a random
number, creates an object in the appropriate OU in AD, creates user
accounts and assign access to server, registers with DNS and get an IP from
the IPAM appliance. We are currently using automation center with
orchestrator to accomplish this and it works well.
We are not looking for a “how to do this”, we are looking for someone
who has already implemented this type of setup so that we may get feedback
on the pros and cons.
Quoting Alex Pilon <alp [ at ] alexpilon [ dot ] ca>:
What do you mean by “NCR”?
National Capital Region - in short Ottawa / Gatineau / Outaouais
On Mon, Feb 01, 2016 at 06:42:25PM +0000, jf [ at ] messier [ dot ] ca wrote:
Someone at my office was wondering about different cloud solutions, and
three solutions were considered:
What exactly do you mean by “cloud”? IaaS? PaaS? SaaS? What exactly on
any of these? If SaaS, a document management system? A bug tracker? An
email service? If PaaS, which particular web server, etc?
We are looking at implementing a private cloud offering PaaS, It must
be a private cloud setup, and amazon and google are not options.
Basically what we have now is an implementation of VMware Automation Center.
What we are looking for is something that has the same or close to the
same functionality of vmware automation center without the high cost
of vmware licensing.
We have CISCO and HP blade servers with ESXi, in several pods across 3
datacenters located in 3 different cities, this we will not change.
In a nutshell we need a product that will enable clients in multiple
locations to log into a web portal answer a few questions ie type of
server (DB, APP, WEB….) size required, project name, dept name….. From
the answers to these question the product must deploy a vm in the
appropriate datacenter and appropriate pod within one of 3
datacenters, it
then assigns a name based on the question answered, assigns a random
number, creates an object in the appropriate OU in AD, creates user
accounts and assign access to server, registers with DNS and get an IP
from the IPAM appliance. We are currently using automation center
with orchestrator to accomplish this and it works well.
We are not looking for a “how to do this”, we are looking for someone
who has already implemented this type of setup so that we may get
feedback on the pros and cons.
Again, any / all comments are welcome !!!