Intel Corporation

John C Leung

Mohan J Kumar

Narayan Ranganathan

Ramamurthy Krithivas

Mechanisms to enable management controllers to learn the control plane hierarchy in data center environments. The data center is configured in a physical hierarchy including multiple pods, racks, trays, and sleds and associated switches. Management controllers at various levels in a control plane hierarchy and associated with switches in the physical hierarchy are configured to add their IP addresses to DHCP (Dynamic Host Control Protocol) responses that are generated by a DCHP server in response to DCHP requests for IP address requests initiated by DHCP clients including manageability controllers, compute nodes and storage nodes in the data center. As the DCHP response traverses each of multiple switches along a forwarding path from the DCHP server to the DHCP client, an IP address of the manageability controller associated with the switch is inserted. Upon receipt at the DHCP client, the inserted IP addresses are extracted and used to automate learning of the control plane hierarchy.

Mechanism for management controllers to learn the control plane hierarchy in a data center environment

Technologies for generating service templates to achieve service level agreement (SLA) metrics include a service template generator that accesses a generic service template and an SLA metric specification. The generic service template defines a virtual application service to be provided by a datacenter. The service template generator generates one or more specific service templates based on the generic service template. Each of the specific service templates provides one or more of the specified SLA metrics, such as specified uptime, reliability, or manageability. The generated service templates are stored in a service template catalog. A datacenter manager controlling a number of datacenter nodes receives a service request including one or more SLA requirements, selects a matching service template from the service template catalog, and deploys the selected service template. The service template generator and the datacenter manager may be the same device. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

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