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Hybrid Cloud Management with Red Hat CloudForms
Hybrid Cloud Management with Red Hat CloudForms

Hybrid Cloud Management with Red Hat CloudForms: Build, manage, and control an open hybrid cloud infrastructure using Red Hat CloudForms

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Hybrid Cloud Management with Red Hat CloudForms

Chapter 2. Installing Red Hat CloudForms on Red Hat OpenStack

This chapter takes you through the steps required to install, configure, and use Red Hat CloudForms on Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack. However, you should be able to install it on OpenStack running on any other Linux distribution.

The following topics are covered in this chapter:

  • System requirements
  • Deploying the Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine appliance
  • Configuring the appliance
  • Accessing and navigating the CloudForms web console

At the time of writing this book, the OpenStack Havana release was used, so certain screenshots might differ based on the OpenStack release you are using.

System requirements

Installing the Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine Appliance requires an existing virtual or cloud infrastructure. The following are the latest supported platforms:

  • OpenStack
  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
  • VMware vSphere

The system requirements for installing CloudForms are different for different platforms. Since this book talks about installing it on OpenStack, we will see the system requirements for OpenStack.

You need a minimum of:

  • Four VCPUs
  • 6 GB RAM
  • 45 GB disk space

The flavor we select to launch the CloudForms instance must meet or exceed the preceding requirements.

Note

For a list of system requirements for other platforms, refer to the following links:

System requirements for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_CloudForms/3.1/html/Installing_CloudForms_on_Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization/index.html

System requirements for installing CloudForms on VMware vSphere: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_CloudForms...

Deploying the Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine Appliance

Now that we are aware of the resource and security requirements for Red Hat CloudForms, let's look at how to obtain a copy of the appliance and run it.

Obtaining the appliance

The CloudForms Management appliance for OpenStack can be downloaded from your Red Hat customer portal under the Red Hat CloudForms product page. You need access to a Red Hat CloudForms subscription to be able to do so. At the time of writing this book, the direct download link for this is https://rhn.redhat.com/rhn/software/channel/downloads/Download.do?cid=20037.

For more information on obtaining the subscription and appliance, or to request a trial, visit http://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/cloud-computing/cloudforms.

Note

Note

If you are unable to get access to Red Hat CloudForms, ManageIQ (the open source version) can also be used for hands-on experience.

Creating the appliance image in OpenStack

Before launching the appliance, we need to create an...

Configuring the CloudForms Management Engine Virtual Appliance

Before we can log in to the dashboard and start using Red Hat CloudForms, we need to perform some initial configuration tasks to prepare the appliance for its operation:

  1. Access the VNC console of the appliance from the OpenStack dashboard or remotely through SSH, and log in using the default username and password. The default username is admin and the password is smartvm.
    Configuring the CloudForms Management Engine Virtual Appliance

    Note

    Note that if you've made a spelling mistake in entering the username or password, pressing Backspace or Delete won't help you correct it. Press Enter and it will prompt you to reenter the details.

    On successful login, it will present a summary of the details, such as the hostname, IP address, DNS information, time zone, database details, EVM version, and EVM console's IP address. The EVM console's IP address reflecting here is usually the internal IP address of the instance and cannot be used to access the web console from the Internet...

The Red Hat CloudForms web console

The web console provides a graphical user interface for working with the CloudForms Management Engine Appliance. The web console can be accessed from a browser on any machine that has network access to the CloudForms Management Engine server.

System requirements

The system requirements for accessing the Red Hat CloudForms web console are:

  • A Windows, Linux, or Mac computer
  • A modern browser, such as Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Internet Explorer 8 or above
  • Adobe Flash Player 9 or above
  • The CloudForms Management Engine Appliance must already be installed and activated in your enterprise environment

Accessing the Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine web console

Type the hostname or floating IP assigned to the instance prefixed by https in a supported browser to access the appliance. Enter default username as admin and the password as smartvm to log in to the appliance, as shown in this screenshot:

Accessing the Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine web console

Note

You should log in to only one tab in each browser, as the...

Summary

In this chapter, we deployed the Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine Appliance in an OpenStack environment, and you learned where to configure the hostname, network settings, and time zone. We configured an internal PostgreSQL database and started the EVM server process. We then used the floating IP of the instance to access the appliance from a web browser, and you learned where the different feature sets are and how to navigate around.

In the next chapter, we will add infrastructure and cloud providers to build a hybrid cloud environment, and also see how to configure and discover resources already present in virtualized environments.

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The increasing adoption of the Cloud has led to enterprises having a heterogeneous IT environment that consists of both private and public cloud infrastructures, and in most cases existing virtualized infrastructures as well. As building and managing such a diverse IT infrastructure is a major challenges, Red Hat CloudForms provides a unified, consistent, and comprehensive management platform. With features like cloud intelligence dashboard, self-service portal, lifecycle management, policy-based governance, quotas, capacity management, monitoring and reporting, Red Hat CloudForms lets you manage your hybrid cloud infrastructure from a single pane of glass. This book will equip you with a hands-on approach on how to build a hybrid cloud environment and then manage, control, and gain operational insights into it. The book starts by showing you how to install and configure Red Hat CloudForms, and add infrastructure and cloud providers to build the hybrid cloud environment. Next, you will learn to provision virtual machines and instances to these platform providers, and manage and control the lifecycle of these resources. You will also get to know about automating provisioning. Moving on, you’ll get to grips with the management of resources using policies, events, conditions, and actions. You’ll also learn to monitor these resources from a single pane of glass. Finally, the book covers viewing capacity and utilization trends to optimize the overall hybrid cloud infrastructure, and also introduces you to supported APIs. By end of the book, you will be able to deploy and use Red Hat CloudForms.

Who is this book for?

If you are an existing Red Hat administrator who is new to Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure and would like to manage and deploy Hybrid clouds, then this book is for you. Red Hat Linux administration experience is assumed.

What you will learn

  • Install and configure Red Hat CloudForms 3.1 in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack platform
  • Add Amazon EC2 and OpenStack as Cloud providers and adding VMware as an infrastructure provider
  • Provision an EC2 instance
  • Manage lifecycle of virtual machines and instances
  • Create custom domains, namespaces, classes, schemas, instances, and invoke automation workflows
  • Monitor and gather intelligence information about the Hybrid Cloud environment
  • Get to know about supported APIs that can be used to integrate thirdparty systems with Red Hat CloudForms
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Table of Contents

11 Chapters
1. Red Hat CloudForms Internals Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
2. Installing Red Hat CloudForms on Red Hat OpenStack Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
3. Building a Hybrid Cloud Environment Using Red Hat CloudForms Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
4. Provisioning Instances Using Red Hat CloudForms Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
5. Life Cycle Management Using Red Hat CloudForms Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
6. Automation Using Red Hat CloudForms Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
7. Managing Red Hat CloudForms Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
8. Monitoring a Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure Using Red Hat CloudForms Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
9. Optimizing Using Red Hat CloudForms Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
10. APIs for Red Hat CloudForms Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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Easy to read, gets you going with basicsNot so good with the cloudforms architecture itselfLacks examples and case studies
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"Hybrid Cloud Management with Red Hat CloudForms" is a book written for a very niche market. Most people in IT understand managing private or public clouds, but using a specific tool designed to manage both types of clouds systems and track and report on them merged into one is quite an amazing feat. This book does just that. You get a step by step process of how to use Red Hat CloudForm to provision, manage, bill, control and and govern resources across different types of cloud deployments.You'll learn how to install Red Hat CloudForms, build a hybrid environment, provision instances from different cloud providers, understand life cycle management to help setup quotas, and automate your instances. You'll understand how to automate workflows with events, policies, and conditions to create actions. You'll understand how to properly monitor your hybrid infrastructure and setup chargebacks and alerts. Additional, you'll get familiar with how to optimize the entire system and how to use the Red Hat CloudForm API with other systems.It walks you through most things, but could do a better job explaining things a bit more. I had to "google" a few things for more information, but overall this book will get you up and running. If you are using Red Hat CloudForms, or thinking about it, please read this book first.
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A good book for those using Red Hat's CloudForms.This book is generously illustrated and clearly written. It seems to lack a little in 'overview' material, so it makes a better operations manual than a reference book.The book explains many useful features that cloud operators will find invaluable. It's an easy start to learning cloud management.For CloudForms users, this book will be a good read.
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