Cloud Infrastructure Requirements
You can create data centers in Network Director, using Juniper Network devices, cloud infrastructure, or a combination of both. Network Director supports three types of cloud infrastructure providers—VMware vCenter, OpenStack, and a combination of OpenStack and VMware NSX. Each of these cloud infrastructure providers must meet the following requirements, else Network Director will not be able to discover these devices and create the data center:
- For bare metal servers, ensure that you enable LLDP on the servers and the physical switches.
- Ensure that your cloud infrastructure meets the requirements
given in Table 1.
Table 1: Cloud Infrastructure Requirements
Cloud Infrastructure
Requirements
OpenStack
Supported Release—Icehouse
Ensure that the APIs listed in Table 2 are running.
VMware NSX
Version 4.1 or 4.2
VMware ESXi
VMware ESX versions 4.0 or 4.1
VMware ESXi versions 5.0, 5.1, 5.5, or 6.0
Table 2: API Requirements
Name of the API
OpenStack Based data center
OpenStack + NSX Based data center
Keystone API v2
Yes
Yes
Nova API v2
Yes
Yes
Neutron API v2
No
Yes
Ceilometer API v2
Yes, if you want to run the VM stats monitoring feature
Yes, if you want to run the VM stats monitoring feature
Note: Network Director does not support OpenStack with Neutron-based VXLANs.
