Arrow Solutions Lab - IBM Island - Alpharetta Georgia

This repository is private at git: https://github.com/aessatl/ibm_aessatl_arrow_com

This GitHub Repository is a consolidation of documenation as well as documentation on deployment of the Arrow Solution Center Lab IBM Island**

We will perform the following tasks

• Deploy Networking switching
• Deploy Fibre Channel SAN switching
• Take POWER systems and deploy tasks via IaC
• Deploy IBM SAN storage to hosts via IaC
• Deployment of RedHat Openshift Clusters both x86 and POWER for demos

## Contact

Name	email	Role
Tony Owens	[email protected]	IBM Storage Architect
Don Knall	[email protected]	IBM POWER Architect

Task Lists

- [ ] Build out Ansible Tower host to do trigger based push into lab
- [ ] Deploy switches
- [ ] Deploy POWER servers
- [ ] Deploy Intel servers
- [ ] Deploy IBM SAN Storage

Section 1 - Deployment Strategy

1.1 - Networking Infrastructure

• Primary playbook network_deploy.yml

blah

1.2 - IBM Storage

• Primary playbook storage_deploy.yml

This script is used to pull down and install all the necessary software we will need for the lab namely:

• Chocolatey - Windows based package manager used to install and manage software - https://chocolatey.org/
• Git commandline - used to interact with git repos - https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/git
• Packer - image build manager used to create artifacts for server and infrastructrue builds expressed as code - https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/packer
• Terraform - Used to orchestrate the provisioning of infrastrcutre expressed as code - https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/terraform
• Azure CLI - azure command line tool that allows commands against Azure cloud - https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/azure-cli

1.3 - IBM POWER servers

cd "~/desktop"

1.4 - Openshift Container Framework

cd "~/desktop"