Automated technique to configure and provision components of a converged infrastructure

摘要

A technique to provision a converted infrastructure (CI) includes generating task definitions to configure respective ones of compute, storage, and network components of a converged infrastructure (CI) when invoked. Each task definition includes a task identifier (ID), one or more component configuration commands, and one or more task arguments through which one or more corresponding component configuration parameters are passed to corresponding ones of the one or more component commands. The technique further includes automatically invoking each of the task definitions by task ID according to an ordered sequence in order to configure the CI. The automatically invoking includes providing the one or more component configuration commands and the corresponding one or more passed configuration parameters of each invoked task definition to the respective ones of the CI components.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
generating task definitions to configure respective ones of compute, storage, and network components of a converged infrastructure (CI) when invoked, each task definition including a task identifier (ID), one or more component configuration commands, and one or more task arguments through which one or more corresponding component configuration parameters are passed to corresponding ones of the one or more component commands; generating an ordered sequence of task identifiers (IDs) identifying corresponding ones of the task definitions that configure respective ones of the computer, storage and network components of the CI; and automatically invoking each of the task definitions by task ID according to the ordered sequence in order to configure the CI, wherein the automatically invoking includes providing the one or more component configuration commands and the corresponding one or more passed configuration parameters of each invoked task definition to the respective ones of the CI components, and wherein the automatically invoking further includes, for each invoked task definition:
receiving each component configuration parameter through the corresponding task argument;validating a total number of the received component configuration parameters and a type of each received component configuration parameter against a total number of task arguments and a type of each argument defined in the task definition; andpassing each received component configuration parameter that is validated to each corresponding component configuration command and not passing each received component configuration parameter that is not validated.