Hybrid Cloud Management with Red Hat CloudForms电子书

Hybrid Cloud Management with Red Hat CloudForms

Table of Contents

Hybrid Cloud Management with Red Hat CloudForms

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the color images of this book

Errata

Piracy

Questions

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

The open source version of Red Hat CloudForms

Summary

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

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

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

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-related tasks

Retiring instances/virtual machines

Modifying or removing the 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

Summary

6. Automation Using Red Hat CloudForms

CloudForms Management Engine Automate

The Automate organizational units

Domains

Working with the Automate model

Creating a custom domain

Creating a namespace

Creating a class

Copying a class

Creating a schema

Adding a schema

Editing and removing a schema

Reordering the schema sequence

Adding an instance

Copying an instance

Relationships

Methods

Global variable $evm

Methods hierarchy

Creating a method

Automate workflows

Summary

7. Managing Red Hat CloudForms

Policies

Events

Conditions

Actions

Types of policies

Control policy

Creating a control policy

Creating a condition

Creating an expression

Modifying or removing expressions

Adding the condition to the control policy

Setting the events

Setting the action

Compliance policy

Creating a compliance policy

Creating a new condition

Assigning the condition to the compliance policy

Simulating policies

Summary

8. Monitoring a Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure Using Red Hat CloudForms

Dashboard

Widgets

Adding a widget

Widget tasks from the dashboard

Creating widgets

Reports

Creating a new report

The Columns tab

The Consolidation tab

The Formatting tab

The Styling tab

The Filter tab

The Summary tab

The Charts tab

The Timeline tab

The Preview tab

Running a report

Viewing and downloading reports

Other report operations

Importing/exporting reports

Usage

Chargeback

Creating a Chargeback rate

Assigning a Chargeback rate

Creating a Chargeback report

Alerts

Creating a new alert

Creating an alert example

Other alert operations

SmartState analysis

SmartProxy

Running a SmartState analysis

Summary

9. Optimizing Using Red Hat CloudForms

Optimization

Collecting capacity and utilization data

Enabling data collection

Prerequisites for capacity and utilization data collection

Red Hat Enterprise virtualization

The Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack platform

Data collection

Charts

Viewing capacity and utilization charts

Utilization

Viewing utilization trends

Planning for new virtual machines

Bottlenecks

Summary

10. APIs for Red Hat CloudForms

Supported APIs

REST API

Accessing REST APIs

Content types

Supported HTTP methods for REST API

Accessing collections, resources, and subcollections

Collections

Resources

Subcollections

Further reading on REST APIs for Red Hat CloudForms

SOAP APIs

Calling a Web Services Description Language (WSDL)

Further reading on SOAP APIs for Red Hat CloudForms

Summary

Index