OSUCS – OpenStack on Cisco UCS Integration with Automated Deployment Tools

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