Private Cloud Build and Managed Services for a Telecom Service Provider
Overview
Client is a $7billion Telecommunications Network Equipment Supplier with operations worldwide, & DCs located in Asia and Europe. The client had the following requirements
- Build Private Cloud environment using Openstack platform
- Create two sub domains using ESXi and KVM as hypervisor
- Integrate with 3rd party tools for configuration management, IPAM, Mail server and metering and charge back
- Create multi POD (Performance Optimized DC) environment for IT domain & establish communication to Telco domain
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Challenges
Data leakage due to cross communication between IT domain and Telecom domain
Inability to Orchestrate workload provisioning in Public Cloud environment
Solution
- Deployment and configuration of Cloud Forms components such as Virtual Intelligence, Services Infrastructure, Control, and Optimize to manage infrastructure
- 3x Controller nodes (running in an HA cluster). The OpenStack controller servers will also host the Red Hat Ceph Storage MONs for this cluster
- Network Automation and configuration using different SDN controllers for each domain
- Service catalogue and workflow automation using Cloud forms CMP
- Service integration for IP address management, firewall as a service, HA proxy and Load balancer as services for Application load balancing
- 9X5 Managed Services model for Multi POD Private Cloud across the Region
Outcomes
- Service portal for end to end service provisioning and work flow automation
- Private Cloud with extension of Public Cloud infrastructure
- Private Cloud based on Openstack delivering IaaS services
- Platform readiness for Docker, PaaS and Public Cloud integration
- Service delivery adhering to industry/local EU regulation
