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Hybrid Cloud Management with Red Hat CloudForms

By : Sangram Rath
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Hybrid Cloud Management with Red Hat CloudForms

By: Sangram Rath

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Hybrid Cloud Management with Red Hat CloudForms
Sangram Rath
Aug, 2015 | 174 pages
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Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Hybrid Cloud Management with Red Hat CloudForms
Hybrid Cloud Management with Red Hat CloudForms
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Red Hat CloudForms Internals
Red Hat CloudForms Internals
What is a cloud management platform?
Hybrid cloud management challenges
Introducing Red Hat CloudForms
Supported providers
Types of provisioning
The open source version of Red Hat CloudForms
Summary
2
Installing Red Hat CloudForms on Red Hat OpenStack
Installing Red Hat CloudForms on Red Hat OpenStack
System requirements
Deploying the Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine Appliance
Configuring the CloudForms Management Engine Virtual Appliance
The Red Hat CloudForms web console
Summary
3
Building a Hybrid Cloud Environment Using Red Hat CloudForms
Building a Hybrid Cloud Environment Using Red Hat CloudForms
Adding cloud providers
Adding infrastructure providers
Authenticating infrastructure provider hosts
Viewing and editing provider information
Auto-discovering providers
Working with provisioning dialogs
Summary
4
Provisioning Instances Using Red Hat CloudForms
Provisioning Instances Using Red Hat CloudForms
Introduction to provisioning
Images
Provisioning an Amazon EC2 instance
Provisioning an OpenStack instance
Catalogs and service catalogs
Summary
5
Life Cycle Management Using Red Hat CloudForms
Life Cycle Management Using Red Hat CloudForms
Life cycle management
State machines
Viewing requests
Approving requests
Retiring instances/virtual machines
Modifying a state machine
Quotas
Summary
6
Automation Using Red Hat CloudForms
Automation Using Red Hat CloudForms
CloudForms Management Engine Automate
Working with the Automate model
Relationships
Methods
Automate workflows
Summary
7
Managing Red Hat CloudForms
Managing Red Hat CloudForms
Policies
Events
Conditions
Actions
Types of policies
Simulating policies
Summary
8
Monitoring a Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure Using Red Hat CloudForms
Monitoring a Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure Using Red Hat CloudForms
Dashboard
Reports
Usage
Chargeback
Alerts
SmartState analysis
Summary
9
Optimizing Using Red Hat CloudForms
Optimizing Using Red Hat CloudForms
Optimization
Collecting capacity and utilization data
Charts
Utilization
Planning for new virtual machines
Bottlenecks
Summary
10
APIs for Red Hat CloudForms
APIs for Red Hat CloudForms
Supported APIs
REST API
SOAP APIs
Summary
Index
Index

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:

Note

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

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