EMC Cloud Storage (BOSH release)

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This repo is a BOSH release for deploying software defined storage in the form of EMC Cloud Storage (ECS). ECS is a object storage platform that is designed for traditional and next-gen applications.

Note: Before deploying this release with BOSH, if you have not worked with BOSH take a look at this tutorial!

Deployment Requirements

This release expects the following items:

• git CLI

• BOSH CLI

• BOSH director version 257+ deployed

• BOSH director with a valid cloud-config that has a disk_types section with a valid disk

• BOSH Ubuntu stemcell

Deployment Overview

ECS is deployed in a clustered configuration and currently this release only supports a 3 node cluster. This release has been tested with both vSphere and AWS.

• clone this release and update submodules

git clone https://github.com/EMC-Dojo/ecs-release
cd ecs-release
git submodule update --init

• create the BOSH release and upload to the director

bosh -n create release
bosh -n upload release

• ensure a stemcell is uploaded and upload if needed

bosh stemcells

Deployment Manifest & Cloud-Config

A manifest template is available here. You should not need to change anything, if all options are defined in your BOSH cloud-config. Example vSphere and AWS cloud-configs are provided as well.

• Once your manifest and cloud-config are setup, deploy!

bosh deploy

Provisioning your ECS cluster (Optional)

After provisioning your ECS cluster with BOSH you will need to provision the cluster for use. If the allocated IP's are reachable by your browser you can provision ECS with the GUI. Navigate to the IP of the first node using https and login with root/ChangeMe.

If the IP is unreachable or if you prefer to automate this process, you are in luck! Included in this release is a BOSH errand that will provision the cluster for you. To run this, ensure you have not changed the username and password after deploying the cluster.

• Run the BOSH errand to provision the ECS cluster.

bosh run errand ecs_prov_errand

• Be patient this can take some time unless you provisioned exceedingly high performing VM's.

Contact

Slack Channel: Organization: http://cloudfoundry.slack.com Channel: #persi

See you in the clouds!