This publication offers a view into the Turnkey Cloud Solution offered with GaleForce Software that includes automated provisioning and orchestration of heterogeneous environments and globally distributed clouds.

1. Solution Brief
Turnkey Cloud Solution
with GaleForce Software
The Challenge
The pressures to reduce capital and a cloud infrastructure out of their legacy
SOLUTION HIGHLIGHTS
operational expenditure in IT organiza- and existing infrastructure that can run all
Compute, Network, and tions and the growing complexity and of the company’s workloads—virtualized
Storage Services Catalog diversity of resource management or not—while also leveraging the benefits
Easily define service-level (gold, tools have driven the need for compre- of new technologies and standards in a
silver, bronze) templates of com- hensive infrastructure automation and way that makes sense in their operations.
pute, network, and NetApp storage orchestration solutions like GaleForce A real-world cloud solution
services and publish them to the software. The need for agile service
In order for enterprises to get cloud-like
GaleForce self-service catalog. delivery, self-service enablement, and
benefits out of their existing environ-
close alignment of IT with business
Automated Provisioning ments, they need to implement an
needs—plus the emergence of cloud
and Orchestration of automation solution that:
architecture—is driving a revolution
Heterogeneous Environments across labs and enterprise IT alike. • Provisions and orchestrates both vir-
Automate the provisioning of any Private, public, and hybrid clouds are tual and physical resources, including
workload environment at any the talk of the day. bare metal provisioning of operating
scale across multiple vendors systems and hypervisors
and technologies. As the desire to implement cloud archi-
• Provides self-service access to
tecture in the enterprise increases,
Geographically Distributed physical, virtual, and combined infra-
it demands a reassessment of the
Clouds structure resources via selectable
assumptions underlying the building
Consolidate physically separated templates for workload environments
blocks of a cloud. One of the most
labs or data centers into com- • Automatically provisions end-to-end
glaring of phenomena is the erroneous
mon pools of resources that can workload environments on request,
belief that enterprises must overhaul
be accessed by users anywhere allows policy-based addition or dele-
their hardware and software infrastruc-
in the world. Burst into a public tion of resources to live deployments,
ture to implement a cloud environment.
cloud when needed. and decommissions back to the
IT organizations today have millions of
shared pool of resources when the
dollars invested in legacy and hetero-
session is over
geneous hardware, and have a mix of
• Allows composite infrastructure auto-
virtualized and nonvirtualized workloads
mation—automated provisioning and
in their environments. The challenge in
orchestration across shared com-
today’s IT organizations is how to build
pute, network, and storage layers

2. The GaleForce Control Center provides
resource management, template authoring,
and automated end-to-end provisioning
for physical and virtual resources across
application, computing, networking, and
storage tiers.
The GaleForce Web portal enables
self-service fulfillment of infrastructure
service requests based on templates
published by the system admin.
Figure 1) GaleForce Control Center and Web Portal Client.
The Solution resources from the deployment on the Out-of-the-box support for
The GaleForce automation software fly or based on deterministic policies. heterogeneous environments
provides a complete turnkey cloud The resource adaptor framework within
Seamless integration with the
solution for private and hybrid cloud NetApp Storage Service Catalog GaleForce allows granular device-level
deployments with NetApp, including control of resources. With more than
With the template feature of GaleForce
a ready-made web portal for end user 130 prebuilt resource adaptors avail-
and its integration with NetApp® Open
self-service, and seamless integration able, GaleForce allows developers to
Management OnCommand™ APIs,
with NetApp software and the NetApp seamlessly integrate NetApp storage
developers are able to design a multi-
storage service catalog. GaleForce arrays into heterogeneous environ-
tude of storage profiles that leverage
provides pre-built support for numerous ments that include compute resources
NetApp features such as FlexClone®
server, networking, and virtualization from Dell, HP, IBM, Cisco, or Sun/
and Snapshot®. Developers or architects
vendors, and enables the composite Oracle; virtualization resources from
use the easy drag-and-drop interface
provisioning of both physical and virtual VMware, Citrix, or any hypervisor; and
of the GaleForce Control Center to
resources in a complete orchestration network resources from Cisco, Juniper,
design storage profiles that specify a
framework. GaleForce even allows HP, and others. In addition, GaleForce
variety of attributes, such as NetApp
operators to combine multiple sites into allows intelligent compute and network
storage capacity and provisioning and
a single pool of resources, or to seam- service profiles to be defined based on
protection policies to build a catalog
lessly consolidate resources. attributes such as number of CPUs,
of intelligent NetApp storage services.
size of memory, number of ports,
GaleForce self-service portal Because of the GaleForce implementa-
VLANs, and more.
GaleForce provides an easy-to-use tion with NetApp OnCommand APIs,
self-service portal that provides secure developers are able to discover NetApp Composite infrastructure
storage service templates (for example, provisioning and orchestration
login and role-based access to infra-
structure and service templates for Gold, Silver, or Bronze) and use them GaleForce is an advanced compos-
scheduled or on-demand usage, from within complete end-to-end templates ite infrastructure provisioning and
anywhere in the world. End users log in containing similar compute and network orchestration framework that allows
to the GaleForce Web portal and select profiles built in GaleForce. In this way, provisioning of bare metal as well as
a combination of compute, network, developers construct a composite tem- virtual resources. GaleForce enables
and storage templates from the prebuilt plate of compute, network, and storage frequently requested and standard-
library. When a template is selected profiles in which the storage profile is ized IT services to be delivered in a
and scheduled, GaleForce automati- seamlessly inherited from the NetApp completely automated way, from ser-
cally provisions the complete set of Storage Service Catalog. Developers vice request through service delivery,
resources in a carefully orchestrated are also able to replicate an existing spanning the virtualization, computing,
manner, and brings the workload to life. template and change the profile of the networking, and storage layers. With
While the session runs, the end user compute, network, or storage layer, for GaleForce’s integration with the NetApp
is able to scale, swap, add, or delete example, from Bronze to Gold, and save VSC API, as new virtual machines are
the modified profile as a new template. added GaleForce can provide granular

3. Figure 2) GaleForce orchestrates the end-to-end provisioning of the storage, network, and compute
resources by packaging complex workflows into easily selectable service catalogs that can be
combined into templates and published to the self-service web portal.
access and control of VMs and storage
through vCenter™ and VSC, including SOLUTION COMPONENT
attaching or detaching datastores. All NetApp Products Gale Products
the services are delivered and hosted
FAS6200 series GaleForce Server
on a shared pool of resources (servers,
storage, and network). When the ser- FAS6000 series GaleForce Turnkey Cloud
vices are no longer needed or turned FAS3200 series GaleForce Control Center
off, the resources are decommissioned FAS3100 series GaleForce Web Portal
and returned to the pool to be available
FAS2000 series GaleForce Resource Adapters
for other requestors. What used to take
V-Series for NetApp
highly skilled staff days or even weeks
to accomplish—locating, scheduling, NetApp OnCommand GaleForce Resource Adapters for
connecting, and provisioning virtual and servers, virtualization, and networking
NetApp ONTAPI
physical resources of multiple types GaleForce Resource Adapters for
NetApp VSC Plug-in API
and from multiple vendors—can now public cloud APIs
be completed in minutes.
Geographically distributed clouds
A single installation of GaleForce can Summary to quickly build cloud environments
manage multiple resources and file with existing infrastructure resources.
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