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Architecture and Design description

Concepts:

• A new concept of UCS manager will be added, it's a zone wide resource
  1. user can add multiple UCS managers into a zone
  2. CloudStack creates one resource pool for each UCS manager. In future release, CloudStack should be able to create multiple resource pools per UCS manager
  3. CloudStack discovers used/available UCS blades managed by UCS manager and add them into resource pool created in step2
• On each resource pool, UI provides a button to add a blade in pool to an existing CloudStack cluster
  1. at this release, the CloudStack cluster is a CloudStack baremetal cluster
  2. when adding a blade, CloudStack provides a dropdown box showing all UCS templates in UCS manager
  3. user select a template and instruct CloudStack to realize blade from the template 

web services APIs

list changes to existing web services APIs and new APIs introduced with signatures and throughout documentation

UI flow

• 1. template

Workflow:
This feature is default enabled as long as cloud-hypervisor-ucs.jar presents in classpath of CloudStack. User doesn't need to do any extra work to get the feature working,
a typical workflow is:

1. open Zone page, click button 'Add Resource Pool'
2.         in 'Add Resource Pool' wizzard, select 'UCS' as type
3.         fill up information required for adding UCS manger, e.g IP address, username, password ...
4.         click 'Add'. Cloudstack will automatically create the pool and discover the resources (UCS blades)

Implementations:
      The feature is implemented as a plugin locating in incubator-cloudstack/plugins/hypervisors/ucs

web services APIs

AddUcsManagerCmd

example: 

curl "http://localhost:8096/?command=addUcsManager&zoneid=$zoneid&name=ucsmanager&url=$url&username=admin&password=C1tr1x99"
curl "http://localhost:8096/?command=addUcsManager&zoneid=$zoneid&name=ucsmanager&url=$url&username=admin&password=C1tr1x99"

AssociateUcsProfileToBladeCmd

example:

curl "http://localhost:8096/?command=associatesUscProfileToBlade&ucsmanagerid=$ucsid&profiledn=$profileDn&bladeid=$bladeId"

ListUcsBladeCmd

example:

curl "http://localhost:8096/?command=listUcsBlade&ucsmanagerid=$ucsid"

ListUcsManagerCmd

example:

TODO

ListUcsProfileCmd

example:

curl "http://localhost:8096/?command=listUcsProfile&ucsmanagerid=$ucsid"

UI flow

• A new page for adding resource pool
•         A new page for adding UCS manage in 'Add Resrouce Pool' page
•         A new page for associating UCS profile to a selected UCS blade
•         A new page for convert a UCS blade to Baremetal hosteither demonstrate it visually here or link to relevant mockups

Appendix

Appendix A:

Appendix B: