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(What is Pandaman?)
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== What is Pandaman? ==
 
== What is Pandaman? ==
  
Pandaman(ITDB service) is designed to provide asset management for infrastructure powered by OpenStack.
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Pandaman(ITDB service) is designed to provide asset management for infrastructure powered by OpenStack. The ASSET defined here includes both physical assets and virtual assets in the cloud, including hardware, software, relations, geography, people, racks, topologies, applications, etc.
  
The ASSET defined here includes both physical assets and virtual assets in the cloud, including hardware, software, relations, geography, people, racks, topologies, applications, etc.
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Asset management is very important for data center management and operation. As more and more data centers are powered by OpenStack, these traditional asset management softwares are not satisfied.
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1. When operating an OpenStack clouds, operators should simultaneously watch asset management software, which was previously set up in the data center, and watch OpenStack
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Horizon/Ceilometer. They cannot get a central and global view of both physical and virtual assets.
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2. When designing fine-grained scheduling algorithms, no further information from environment can be given because OpenStack doesn't know about them, especially for those geographical information and rack/network architectures. But these important data are definitely existed in the environment.
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3. Most of the existing softwares don't provide Restful API. Other applications like OpenStack cannot interact with them.
  
 
== Use cases ==
 
== Use cases ==

Revision as of 17:34, 15 October 2015

What is Pandaman?

Pandaman(ITDB service) is designed to provide asset management for infrastructure powered by OpenStack. The ASSET defined here includes both physical assets and virtual assets in the cloud, including hardware, software, relations, geography, people, racks, topologies, applications, etc.

Asset management is very important for data center management and operation. As more and more data centers are powered by OpenStack, these traditional asset management softwares are not satisfied.

1. When operating an OpenStack clouds, operators should simultaneously watch asset management software, which was previously set up in the data center, and watch OpenStack Horizon/Ceilometer. They cannot get a central and global view of both physical and virtual assets.

2. When designing fine-grained scheduling algorithms, no further information from environment can be given because OpenStack doesn't know about them, especially for those geographical information and rack/network architectures. But these important data are definitely existed in the environment.

3. Most of the existing softwares don't provide Restful API. Other applications like OpenStack cannot interact with them.

Use cases

Rationale

Terminology & Workflow Model

Links & IRC

  • Project at Launchpad: http://launchpad.net/pandaman
  • Weekly IRC meeting is under discussion.
  • IRC channel for regular daily discussions is under discussion.

Team

FAQ

Subpages