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 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
