Provision a Physical Appliance

[YamazakiYasuhiro]

To ease handling many physical appliances

1. A template like the following defines a physical appliance (eg. Juniper SSG 5) on a switch appliance like a Liquid Metal.

% cat ./ssg5_config.json
{
  "title": "Juniper SSG 5",
  "template": {
    "type": "physical/appliance",
    "nics": {
      # mapping nics on SSG5 to switch ethers
      "eth0/0": "eth0",
      "eth0/1", "eth1",
      ...(snip)...
      "eth0/7", "eth7"
    }
  }
}

2. The appliance is registered as a group named "juniper/ssg5".

% openvdc register ./ssg5_config.json --group "juniper/ssg5"

3. The following command sequence will provision the resource and return the resource to reuse.

% openvdc run juniper/ssg5
abdcefg12345678

% openvdc ssh abdcefg12345678
Could not support a ssh connection.

% openvdc console abdcefg12345678
Could not support a serial console connection.

% openvdc destroy abdcefg12345678

If administrator want to append a same kind of resource, edit the configuration file and register it using a same group name on the switch appliance which is connected the target resource.