CloudStack and Cisco APIC integration

[Bill Wade <bi...@yahoo.com.INVALID>]

I asked this on the users mailer and was referred to the dev mailer --
I’ll preface this with, “this is an End user question”.. I’m working with a private cloud provider who is looking to use CloudStack for their compute and storage orchestration and use Cisco APIC with the Nexus 9k switches for the network provisioning.  I’m new to the “SDN/NFV” space and looking around I don't see support for Cisco APIC with CloudStack.  Any one have experience with these two working together?  Can CloudStack step aside and let APIC provision the network?  I'm seeing the potential for provisioning conflicts here.

Thanks,
Bill

Re: CloudStack and Cisco APIC integration

[Erik Weber <te...@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 2:31 PM, Bill Wade <bi...@yahoo.com.invalid>
wrote:

> I asked this on the users mailer and was referred to the dev mailer --
> I’ll preface this with, “this is an End user question”.. I’m working with
> a private cloud provider who is looking to use CloudStack for their compute
> and storage orchestration and use Cisco APIC with the Nexus 9k switches for
> the network provisioning.  I’m new to the “SDN/NFV” space and looking
> around I don't see support for Cisco APIC with CloudStack.  Any one have
> experience with these two working together?  Can CloudStack step aside and
> let APIC provision the network?  I'm seeing the potential for provisioning
> conflicts here.
>
>
I don't know what Cisco APIC does or needs to do/know about the
infrastructure, but there's no explicit support in CloudStack for it that I
know of.

That said it doesn't necessarily mean it can't work, but it depends on what
needs to happen during vm deployment.
However I am afraid you're looking to do something CloudStack isn't
currently capable of doing.

-- 
Erik