Done Modifying the roadmap -----Original Message----- From: Sebastien Goasguen [mailto:run...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 24, 2015 9:28 PM To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Re: [Proposal] NCC (NetScaler ControlCenter) Integration With Auto Provision VPX in CloudStack
Add to the roadmap, make sure to add JIRA ticket and when feature is done use PR review. > On Jul 24, 2015, at 1:33 PM, Rajesh Battala <rajesh.batt...@citrix.com> wrote: > > Hi All, > > I would like to integrate NetScaler Control Center with "Auto Provision VPX" > facility in CloudStack. > > What is NCC? > NCC (Netscaler Control Center) is a Manager which controls all NS devices > life cycle and Service Configurations on the devices. > It's an appliance, downloadable from [2] and free of cost > > Benefits of using NCC: > Capacity pooling across all NetScaler infrastructure. NetScaler Control > Center is designed to efficiently pool and manage capacity across all > NetScaler appliances including physical (MPX), virtual (VPX), and > multi-tenant (SDX) form factors > > End-to-end automation across all NetScaler appliances. Using NetScaler > Control Center, the complexity of provisioning and deploying ADC functions on > a large pool of NetScaler appliances is completely hidden from both the cloud > provider and the cloud tenant > > Guaranteed SLAs through service aware resource allocation. Cloud providers > need to guarantee performance and availability SLAs to different cloud > tenants. NetScaler Control Center provides granular control over ADC resource > allocation policies, giving the provider flexibility in creating > differentiated SLAs for cloud tenants based on their application's needs. A > simple and intuitive workflow to construct "service packages" for different > tenant tiers simplifies the SLA creation process. Service packages can be > defined with the following parameters and are customizable per tenant: > > * Appliance type. The target appliance type on which a logical NetScaler > instance for the tenant is created. > * Isolation type. Option to choose between fully dedicated instances and > shared instances. > * Resource allocation. The amount of CPU, memory, and SSL capacity to be > allocated for each tenant's dedicated instance. > * Software versions. The specific version of NetScaler firmware for each > tenant's dedicated instance-allows for version and upgrade independence > between tenants. > > FS for this feature is at [1]. > > What is "Auto Provision VPX" in CloudStack? > > NCC can manage the NS devices added by Admin. If NCC needs to allocate a new > VPX device to a guest network then NCC can request CloudStack to create a NS > VPX in CloudStack fleet and this VPX will be used by NCC to provide ADC > functionality in the guest network. How this works is explained in [1]. > > > > > 1. > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/NCC+Integration+With+Auto+Provision+VPX+in+CloudStack > > 2. > https://www.citrix.com/downloads/netscaler-adc/components/netscaler-control-center-105e.html > > > > > Thanks > Rajesh Battala