Jean-Francois, I work at SSC and some of my colleagues on the design side implementing something called RAD. Rapid something or other. What they designed is almost exactly what you describe below. I can get you in touch with them to see if what they implemented will work for you. John Argus > On Feb 2, 2016, at 08:15, jf [ at ] messier [ dot ] ca wrote: > > 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 !!! > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux mailing list > Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca > http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux