At my previous employer, we've worked to replace HP BSA (HPSA and
HPOO), with
cloudstack - controlling vSphere, KVM and XEN
cobbler and spacewalk (linux physical provisioning and patch management)
Chef - package configuration
Microsoft SSCM - physical windows provisioning and management
CloudStack, KVM, Cobbler, Spacewalk and Chef - are all open source. SSCM
and vSphere - something you had to pay for.
You can technically abstract SSCM, but there is no open source tool to
best of my knowledge that would do all of that for Windows. vSphere was
there because of ELA, but since we automated template build process, KVM
or XEN as open source replacement - would have worked similarly.
In theory you can have this stack completely open source (free), but you
have to have specific skillset to get all of subcomponents functional in
somewhat similar fashion as proprietary. Depending on how large your ENV
is, you have to decide which route you want to go.
Regards
ilya
On 3/24/14, 12:42 AM, Huzefa Hussain wrote:
Hi
I am trying to compare Cloud Stack with HP CSA. HP CSA is super costly so I
am trying to search for an alternative. It seems Cloud Stack can do the job
but I am not very sure. Can some one in the list please help me and suggest
if following use cases can be worked out using Cloud Stack or with
combination of other open source tools.
*Use Case #*
*Use Case Name*
*Description*
1
Provision and Patch OS (via CSA)
*Provision virtual infrastructure with OS *
* CSA: Subscriber requests Windows VMware VM with vCenter
* Subscriber selects patching policy to apply to server
* Submit request - VM is provisioned
*Patch*
* Show how subscriber can check OS patching compliance status
* Show how user can request remediation
2
Provision and Patch Database (via CSA)
*Provision virtual infrastructure with OS and Oracle database *
* CSA: Subscriber requests Linux VMware VM with vCenter
* Subscriber enters database name
* Submit request - VM with OS and Oracle SI DB is provisioned
*Patch*
* Show how subscriber can check Database patching compliance status
* Show how user can request patching
3
OS Compliance
*Provision virtual infrastructure with OS *
* CSA: Enter provisioned windows server on portal
- Subscriber selects PCI or SOX audit policy(ies) to apply to server
- Submit request - VM is put under SA management (agent installed) and
audit policies applied
*Audit*
- Show how subscriber can request audit compliance scan
- Portal show status (compliant/non-compliant) and detailed e-mail sent to
subscriber
- Show how user can request remediation
4
Database Compliance (via CSA)
Go to CSA portal
* Provision virtual infrastructure with OS & Oracle Database
* Subscriber enters e-mail to send compliance report
* Subscriber requests Run CIS Compliance Check
* DMA Compliance workflow is run, and pass/fail
5
Self-Healing Remediation
*Provision demo target VM *
* CSA: Subscriber requests VMware VM with vCenter
* SiteScope monitors for filesystem automatically configured
# "File System full" Incident created based on an "event" (automated
monitoring through Sitescope) that auto triggers appropriate "Action" (HP
OO workflow)
# HP OO creates new ticket in HP Service Manager (show newly created ticket)
# HP OO triggers performs impact analysis (capture outcome in the ticket)
# HP OO triggers action to free up File System ("empties /tmp")
# HP OO updates ticket with details (time to resolve, etc.) and closes the
incident (show the closed ticket)
Thanks,
Huzefa
