Hi, A telco is planning on moving into the public cloud services provision business. They would provide collocation, dedicated hosting, cloud/virtual servers, and hosted apps for customers.
The infrastructure part of the design is sort of sorted out for now (network, security, servers, space, power, cooling, etc). Concerning the cloud/virtual server service, they want an automatic rapid provisioning application that allows customers to select the specs of virtual servers they want and be dynamically created for them. A customer at this portal would simply build a virtual machine by selecting RAM, storage size, CPUs, OS, etc and proceed to a billing page. After verifying payment, the system should automatically provision the customer virtual machine on one of the hypervisors in the cloud, in minutes. No human intervention at the provider side should be required. The customer should even be able to increase the specs of his virtual server at a later stage using a similar approach. An example of this is provided by theplanet.com. See The Planet at their cloud services page <https://www.theplanet.com/servers/server-cloud.aspx>. I was wondering if you know of a readily available software or application that can be integrated into the infrastructure to provide this experience? Thanks. Felix _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
