1. Peter Ziu Northrop Grumman ACS-WG Grid Provisioning Appliance Concept GGF13, March 14, 2005 http://forge.gridforum.org/projects/acs-wg/

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3. 3 Grid Provisioning Appliance Concept March 14, 2005 Overview  The Problem Space  Principles  The Grid Provisioning Appliance Concept  Use Cases  Scenarios  Questions

4. 4 Grid Provisioning Appliance Concept March 14, 2005 Problem Space  Installation and configuration complexities must not become an impediment to adoption of grid technologies  Grid containers answer the call for autonomy and automation, but what deploys the container?  How will large sets of un-configured or “bare metal” machines become a grid?  What standards can provide a foundation?

5. 5 Grid Provisioning Appliance Concept March 14, 2005 Principles  For more complete autonomic functionality, the installation of OS and grid container must be automated and born from the network.  Some entity or nucleus containing grid “DNA” must instruct hardware how to become a grid participant.  Generic enough to apply to any computing container solution.  Does not host any services/functions that can be run inside an existing grid container.  Must be able to deal with heterogeneous pools of hardware.  Primary responsibility is to create an operational grid container from an un-configured network device.

6. 6 Grid Provisioning Appliance Concept March 14, 2005 Grid Provisioning Appliance Concept  Provides the grid “DNA” or “seed” to create, duplicate, or graft a section of grid environment.  Can be replicated or duplicated from an existing appliance.  Can integrate images/packages for OS, ACS repository, common jobs, Identity management services and data storage.  Facilities include: Identity Management UI, network boot services, boot kernel images.  Can prepare supported network devices “out of the box” to become operational grid containers

7. 7 Grid Provisioning Appliance Concept March 14, 2005 Use Case Actors  Customers: Grid Application Developers Grid Administrators Application / Service Testers Production Hosting Entities  Provisioning Services: BOOTP service ACS repository Identity Management UI Software deployment service Device authentication service Solution Installation (SI) parser  Service Consumers  Network Devices (servers)  Boot Kernels  Grid Containers  Data Providers  Identity store  ACS content  OS Images / Configuration  Grid Container software  Applications, Jobs, app configurations  Solution Installation xml file

8. 8 Grid Provisioning Appliance Concept March 14, 2005 Scenarios – Environment Creation Creation of the Provisioning Appliance via manual installation Grid Provisioning Appliance BOOTP Identity Management GUI Security Directory ACS Repository Device Authentication Solution Installation

9. 9 Grid Provisioning Appliance Concept March 14, 2005 Scenarios – Environment Creation Device Pool Management Network WAN Network Creation of Solution Installation xml. Creation and installation of Identities & Trusts into appliance for all devices. Grid Provisioning Appliance

10. 10 Grid Provisioning Appliance Concept March 14, 2005 Scenarios – Environment Creation Device Pool Management Network WAN Network Population of ACS with the necessary binaries or bytecode, OS, Grid containers, apps, services, jobs. Grid Provisioning Appliance

11. 11 Grid Provisioning Appliance Concept March 14, 2005 Scenarios – Environment Creation Device Pool Management Network WAN Network Boot devices Grid Provisioning Appliance

12. 12 Grid Provisioning Appliance Concept March 14, 2005 Scenarios – Environment Creation Device Pool Management Network WAN Network Boot kernel discovers and presents identity Identity is verified by Appliance Grid Provisioning Appliance

13. 13 Grid Provisioning Appliance Concept March 14, 2005 Scenarios – Environment Creation Device Pool Management Network WAN Network Appliance instructs boot kernel to install OS and config. Grid Provisioning Appliance

14. 14 Grid Provisioning Appliance Concept March 14, 2005 Scenarios – Environment Creation Device Pool Management Network WAN Network Appliance installs keystore (unless hardware based) Grid Provisioning Appliance

15. 15 Grid Provisioning Appliance Concept March 14, 2005 Scenarios – Environment Creation Device Pool Management Network WAN Network Appliance boots OS, and installs Grid container Appliance starts Grid Container Grid Provisioning Appliance

16. 16 Grid Provisioning Appliance Concept March 14, 2005 Scenarios – Environment Creation Device Pool Management Network WAN Network Process is repeated for each device Grid Provisioning Appliance

17. 17 Grid Provisioning Appliance Concept March 14, 2005 Scenarios – Replication Of Environment Administrators issue/receive rights/trusts to replicate the service/appliance across domains, and initiate replication, in part or whole, or duplication.

18. 18 Grid Provisioning Appliance Concept March 14, 2005 Scenarios – Replication Of Environment Administrator has received the provisioning services and data, less the identities.

19. 19 Grid Provisioning Appliance Concept March 14, 2005 Scenarios – Replication Of Environment Administrator generates new identities unique to his hardware. Customizes the SI for the appropriate hardware. Boots the devices.

20. 20 Grid Provisioning Appliance Concept March 14, 2005 Scenarios – Replication Of Environment Both administrators can choose to synchronize ACS contents via scheduled replication Both can invite new communities or domains.

21. 21 Grid Provisioning Appliance Concept March 14, 2005 Questions Grid Provisioning Appliance - ACS-WG - (acs-wg@ggf.org)

22. 22 Grid Provisioning Appliance Concept March 14, 2005 Summary  Manual installation and configuration workloads for even small sets of machines can cripple business productivity.  Integrators need standards across vendors for automatic provisioning complex n-tier or grid solutions.  Candidate standards such Solution Installation and provisioning implementation efforts such as NaReGI and others provide foundation.  Encourage vendors of install products to participate in ACS-WG.