Automated build-out of a cloud-computing stamp

摘要

Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for automatically configuring an inventory of hardware to interact seamlessly with a cloud-computing fabric of a data center are provided. Initially, hardware devices within the hardware inventory are located by sending and receiving communications to network devices via serial-based connections and network-based connections, respectively. Information collected during hardware-device location is cross-referenced against a template file for purposes of validation. This information is also employed to generate an infrastructure state of the hardware inventory. The infrastructure state is shared with a controller of the fabric to integrate the hardware inventory therein. Upon integration, services and security measures are provisioned on the hardware inventory, which is designated as a fabric-computing cluster of the data center in order to extend reachability of the fabric, while distributed services are deployed and enabled on available portions of the hardware inventory, which are managed by the fabric controller.

主权项

1. One or more computer-readable hardware memory having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that, when executed, perform a method for discovering and validating an inventory of hardware, the method comprising:
initiating, using a user device of a verification ecosystem, the verification ecosystem comprising the user device having a template file and the hardware inventory, communication with a serial-access device within the hardware inventory or network switch device residing on a secondary out-of-band network within the hardware inventory, wherein the communication triggers intercommunication between the user device and the hardware inventory, the intercommunication excludes an existing infrastructure, wherein the intercommunication for discovery and validation of the hardware inventory is performed based at least in part on a security boundary that serves as a virtual layer that isolates and securely separates the existing infrastructure from the hardware inventory; configuring the serial-access device to send instructions to a power distribution unit (PDU), wherein the PDU is responsible for selectively supplying power to a set of computing units, and wherein the instructions cause the PDU to deliver power to at least one selected computing unit of the set of computing units and to withhold power from at least one nonselected computing unit of the set of computing units; receiving a data packet from the at least one selected computing unit; using the data packet to identify a location of the at least one selected computing unit within a physical topology of the hardware inventory; and cross-referencing the identified location, address and internal wiring of the at least one selected computing unit against the template file having an expected location, address, and internal wiring, to verify that the physical topology of the hardware inventory corresponds thereto.