Provisioning software defined storage infrastructure at cloud scale with Cisco Intersight Terraform provider
Examples to show how to use the Cisco Intersight Terraform provider to automate zero touch infrastructure deployment required for a generic Cloud-Scale software defined storage on Cisco Unified Computing System(Cisco UCS).
The deployment of the whole solution consists of several main steps:
- Create an account in Intersight and claim all storage nodes
- Create Terraform configuration environment for Intersight.
- Apply Terraform configurations for
- Firmware Update on all storage nodes
- Create server policies
- Create server profiles
- Deploy server profiles for all nodes
- Install Operating System on nodes
- Deploy software defined storage software
More information is available at: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/servers-unified-computing/ucs-c-series-rack-servers/2201041-intersight-terrafirma-wp.html