Hybrid cloud management with Red Hat CloudForms : build, manage, and control an open hybrid cloud infrastructure using Red Hat CloudForms / Sangram Rath.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rath, Sangram, author.

Series:

Community experience distilled.

Community Experience Distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cloud computing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (174 p.)

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, [England] ; Mumbai, [India] : Packt Publishing, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

Rath Sangram: 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.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Copyright""; ""Credits""; ""About the Author""; ""About the Reviewers""; ""www.PacktPub.com""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Chapter 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""

""Open Source version of Red Hat CloudForms""""Summary""; ""Chapter 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""; ""Chapter 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""; ""Chapter 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""

""Chapter 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-elated tasks""; ""Retiring instances/virtual machines""; ""Modifying or removing 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""

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 19, 2015).

ISBN:

9781785286438

1785286439