Description

The Course Name: OSUCS – OpenStack on Cisco UCS Integration with Automated Deployment Tools

The Duration: 2 Days

The Overview:

The purpose of this course is to teach participants the knowledge of   closed cloud environments, reducing the risks of lock-in associated with proprietary platforms by offering OpenStack flexibility and choice through a highly engaged community of over 6.000 individuals and over 190 companies including Cisco, Rackspace, Dell, IBM, and Red Hat.

What You Will Learn:

This course will provide participants with a basic, working understanding of UCS and OpenStack. We will explain participants how the two components integrate to provide a cloud management and orchestration environment. Our participants will have on side labs to setup a working OpenStack deployment on UCS infrastructure from start to finish, using automated deployment tools.

The Course Index:

  • Component overview
  • Cloud
  • Cloud definition
  • Cloud types
  • Cloud benefits
  • Cloud caveats
  • Cisco UCS
  • UCS overview
  • UCS Service Profile principles
  • Built-in management
  • OpenStack
  • OpenStack overview
  • OpenStack Component description
  • Deployment options
  • Orchestration capabilities

Labs:

  • OpenStack deployment process
  • UCS Preparation
  • UCS Infrastructure setup
  • UCS Infrastructure preparation
  • OpenStack deployment
  • Integration Script preparation
  • Scripted OpenStack install
  • UCS-OpenStack Integration Script preparation
  • Scripted OpenStack install on UCS
  • Orchestration tasks
  • Environment discovery
  • VM deployment
  • Resource management
  • OpenStack Orchestration tasks