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, j...@messier.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 <a...@alexpilon.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, j...@messier.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@lists.oclug.on.ca > http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux _______________________________________________ Linux mailing list Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux
