Cisco Technology, Inc.

Raju S V L N Penmetsa

Parthasarathy Venkatavaradhan

Raju Datla

Sung-Jin Lim

Ravikumar Pisupati

Muralidhara SrinivasaRao Alapati

Bhaskar Krishnamsetty

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.

Automated technique to configure and provision components of a converged infrastructure

A technique to bootstrap a converged infrastructure design includes receiving a package specification unit (PU) representative of a design of a converged infrastructure (CI) including compute, storage, network, and virtualization components, the PU including component readable tasks that perform operations on the CI components. The PU further includes an inventory task model associated with tasks to read inventory information from the CI components, an assessment task model associated with tasks to assess the CI components, a configuration task model associated with tasks to configure the CI components, and a user input model to generate prompts to solicit and receive CI component information from a user, and provide the received information to the other PU models. The technique displays a PU model menu from which the PU models may be selected, and receives a selection of one of the PU models through the PU model menu. The technique executes one or more tasks associated with the selected PU model to perform corresponding operations on the CI components.

Automated techniques to bootstrap a converged infrastructure (CI) based on a CI package design unit

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