[ 1 ] Hybrid Cloud Management with Red Hat CloudForms Build, manage, and control an open hybrid cloud infrastructure using Red Hat CloudForms Sangram Rath BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI Hybrid Cloud Management with Red Hat CloudForms Copyright © 2015 Packt Publishing All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles or reviews. Every effort has been made in the preparation of this book to ensure the accuracy of the information presented. However, the information contained in this book is sold without warranty, either express or implied. Neither the authors, nor Packt Publishing, and its dealers and distributors will be held liable for any damages caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by this book. 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Kadam Copy Editor Vikrant Phadke 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. 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Table of Contents Preface vii Chapter 1: Red Hat CloudForms Internals 1 What is a cloud management platform? 2 Hybrid cloud management challenges 3 Introducing Red Hat CloudForms 4 Advantages 5 Architecture 6 The components of Red Hat CloudForms 6 Capabilities 7 Benefits 8 Supported providers 8 Infrastructure providers 8 Cloud providers 8 Types of provisioning 9 Virtual machines 9 Instances 9 Hosts 9 The open source version of Red Hat CloudForms 10 Summary 10 Chapter 2: Installing Red Hat CloudForms on Red Hat OpenStack 11 System requirements 11 Additional OpenStack requirements 12 Deploying the Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine Appliance 13 Obtaining the appliance 13 Creating the appliance image in OpenStack 13 Launching the appliance instance 15 [ i ] Table of Contents Configuring the CloudForms Management Engine Virtual Appliance 17 Configuring the database 19 Starting the EVM server process 20 The Red Hat CloudForms web console 21 System requirements 21 Accessing the Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine web console 22 Navigating the web console 22 Summary 24 Chapter 3: Building a Hybrid Cloud Environment Using Red Hat CloudForms 25 Adding cloud providers 25 Adding Amazon EC2 as a cloud provider 26 Adding Red Hat OpenStack as a cloud provider 28 Adding infrastructure providers 30 Adding VMware as an infrastructure provider 30 Adding Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization as an infrastructure provider 32 Authenticating infrastructure provider hosts 33 Viewing and editing provider information 33 Auto-discovering providers 35 Discovering cloud providers 35 Discovering infrastructure providers 36 Working with provisioning dialogs 37 The structure of a provisioning dialog 38 Customizing or creating a new provisioning dialog 39 Summary 40 Chapter 4: Provisioning Instances Using Red Hat CloudForms 41 Introduction to provisioning 42 Images 42 Provisioning an Amazon EC2 instance 43 Request 45 Purpose 46 Catalog 47 Environment 47 Properties 48 Customize 49 Schedule 50 Provisioning an OpenStack instance 51 Catalogs and service catalogs 52 Summary 52 [ ii ] Table of Contents Chapter 5: Life Cycle Management Using Red Hat CloudForms 53 Life cycle management 53 State machines 54 State machine components 54 Viewing a state machine 54 Viewing requests 55 Approving requests 56 Automatic approval 56 Manual approval 57 Other request-related tasks 59 Retiring instances/virtual machines 59 Modifying or removing the retirement date 61 Post-retirement scenarios 62 Modifying a state machine 62 Creating a new domain 63 Copying the state machine instance 64 Modifying the state machine instance 65 Other types of modifications 66 Quotas 66 Modifying quotas 67 Summary 67 Chapter 6: Automation Using Red Hat CloudForms 69 CloudForms Management Engine Automate 69 The Automate organizational units 70 Domains 70 Working with the Automate model 71 Creating a custom domain 72 Creating a namespace 73 Creating a class 74 Copying a class 75 Creating a schema 76 Adding a schema 76 Editing and removing a schema 77 Reordering the schema sequence 77 Adding an instance 77 Copying an instance 78 Relationships 80 Methods 80 Global variable $evm 80 Methods hierarchy 80 Creating a method 81 [ iii ]