OpenQRM IaaS Cloud Appliance by Hyperscalers

Professional Open-Source Data Center and Cloud Management

openQRM has partnered with Hyperscalers to offer both internal-IT and commercial service providers with everything they need to deliver Infrastructure as a Service IaaS and Platform as a Services PaaS as part of private or public cloud model.

IaaS Cloud Computing and Data Center Management framework for operators.

openQRM Enterprise provides you with a complete Automated Workflow Engine for all your Bare-Metal & VM deployment and all of your IT subsystems. Gain higher efficiency through management, automation and monitoring of your Data Center & Cloud capacities.

Billing Integrated. Automatic billing, overview and interface to SAP, etc.
Extends your datacenter capacity by shifting load to AWS EC2, OpenStack, etc.
High Availability. Automatic HA for Systems & Cloud deployment.
Management Overviews. Stay in sync with your Data Center's reality.
Major hypervisors/containers supported: KVM, XEN, Citrix XenServer, VMWare ESXi.
Migration. Automated server migration P2V, P2P, V2P, V2V.
Integrates with all major open and commercial storage technologies.
Auto monitor your IT infrastructure. Detect problems & security breaches.
Manage multiple datacenter locations from one web console.
Integrates with the best Open Source management tools: puppet, nagios/Icinga, collectd, etc.

100% Automation for your Workflows with openQRM Enterprise Plug-Ins

openQRM Enterprise for your PrivateCloud/ HybridCloud
Your infrastructure in the Cloud - Ideal for R&D, QA & for your production environment. Save time and ensure swift IT service delivery with increased automation! Simply let users provision their servers via self-service portal and receive application stacks in minutes
openQRM Enterprise for your ISP Business
Set up, automate, manage and provide the best service for your customers. As an Internet Service Provider you reap in the benefits of openQRM Enterprise. Automate network management & preconfigure network-bridges. Provide Cloud self-service with comprehensive billing...

openQRM Enterprise for KVM Environment

openQRM Enterprise Edition offers you extensive management, automation and monitoring possibilities. Profit from the technical benefits of KVM like hardware support, memory support and a high security level all at the lowest ongoing cost. Simply add additional plug-ins for more functionality.
openQRM Enterprise for your VMware vSphere Environment
Directly connect to VMware vCenter-server in a vSphere environment. Auto-install ESXi hosts on bare-metal hardware. Simply put a Private Cloud on-top of your existing VMware vSphere environment. HA, monitoring, ip-management and much more are automatically also available for VMs.

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OpenQRM Appliance

Contents

1.1 - Physical System Architecture ................ 5
1.2 – OpenQRM High Level Architecture...... 6
2.0 – Hardware Checks .................................. 7
2.1 – CPU ............................................ 7
2.2 – RAM .................................….............. 7
2.2.1 – Management Nodes ............................ 7
2.2.2 – Tier 1 Nodes .................................................. 7
2.2.3 – Tier 2 Nodes ...................................................... 7
2.3 – NIC ......................................................................................... 8
2.4 – Storage Card ..................................................................... 8
2.4.1 – Management and Tier 1 Nodes ............................................. 8
2.4.2 – Tier 2 Nodes ................................................................. 8
2.5 – Disks ............................................................................... 8
2.5.1 – Management Nodes ........................................... 8
2.5.2 – S2S-T1-1/2/3/4 ..................................................... 9
2.5.3 – S2P-T2-1/2/3/4 ........................................ 10
3.0 – Network Switches and Cumulus Set up ............................................... 11
3.1 – Network Topology Introduction ................................. 11
3.2 – Network Topology Explanation .................................. 11
3.3 – Configuring Management Switches ............................................... 12
3.4 – Configuring Data Path (Leaf/Spine) Switches ............................ 13
3.4.1 – Connections and Configuration .................................... 13
3.4.2 – Commands ............................................ 16
4.0 – Debian Install Process ................................................ 17
4.1 – Preparations ......................................... 17
4.1.1 Preparing Installation Media .............................................. 17
4.1.2 Preparing the node for USB Boot ........................................ 17
4.1.3 – Boot Screen ....................................................... 19
4.2 – Debian Installation Process ......................................................... 20
4.2.1 – Select Language, Location and Keyboard Layout ............................... 20
4.2.2 – Configure Networking ............................................... 21
4.2.3 – Hostnames and Domain Names ..................................... 22
4.2.4 – Set up Root Password .................................................. 23
4.2.5 – Set up User name and User Password ...................................... 24
4.2.6 – Set up Location and Clock ........................................................... 25

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4.2.7 – Partitioning the Storage for the Operating System .................................... 26
4.2.8 – Package Manager Configuration and Selecting packages ....................... 42
4.2.9 – Finalizing the Installation ......................................................... 46
5.0 – OpenQRM Installation ..................................... 47
5.1 – OpenQRM Management Group Architecture ........................................ 47
5.2 – OpenQRM Worker Architecture ...................................................... 48
5.3 – OpenQRM Installation Preparation (Management Nodes) ...................................... 49
5.3.1 – Installing required packages ....................................... 49
5.3.2 – Network Setup ....................................................................... 50
5.3.3 – Copying the OpenQRM Installer ............................................................... 51
5.3.4 – Running the OpenQRM Installer ......................................................... 54
5.3.5 – Small Network Changes .................................................. 60
5.3.6 – Access OpenQRM VM through VNC.................................. 61
5.3.7 – OpenQRM Internal Network Configuration (OpenQRM VM) ....................... 62
5.3.8 – Update OpenQRM (OpenQRM VM) ............................................... 63
5.3.9 – Transferring OpenQRM Installation to OpenQRM VM ............................. 64
5.3.10 – OpenQRM Installer Extraction and Installation (OpenQRM VM) ................... 65
5.3.11 – OpenQRM Web Access ........................................... 69
5.3.12 – OpenQRM Initial Configuration and Licensing ............................. 70
5.3.13 – Extra Licensing in OpenQRM .......................................... 74
5.4 – OpenQRM HA Installation (Management Nodes) ...................................... 75
5.4.1 – Installing required packages ................................................ 75
5.4.2 – High Availability Cluster Setup ................................................. 75
5.4.3 – SSH Configuration for Management Node ........................................... 79
5.4.4 – High Availability Cluster Admin Setup .......................................... 80
5.4.6 – Checking Cluster Status ................................................................. 81
5.5 – OpenQRM Resource Configuration ................................................ 82
5.5.1 – OpenQRM local-server Plugin Installation .................................... 82
5.5.2 – Exposing Node Resources to the local-server Plugin ...................................... 83
5.5.3 – Displaying resource list ................................................ 85
6.0 – Hardware Links ............................................................. 86
7.0 – Software References ....................................................................... 87

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