Abstract: A technique to provision a converted infrastructure (CI) includes generating task definitions to configure respective ones of compute, storage, and network components of a converged infrastructure (CI) when invoked. Each task definition includes a task identifier (ID), one or more component configuration commands, and one or more task arguments through which one or more corresponding component configuration parameters are passed to corresponding ones of the one or more component commands. The technique further includes automatically invoking each of the task definitions by task ID according to an ordered sequence in order to configure the CI. The automatically invoking includes providing the one or more component configuration commands and the corresponding one or more passed configuration parameters of each invoked task definition to the respective ones of the CI components.

Abstract: A technique to provision a converted infrastructure (CI) includes generating task definitions to configure respective ones of compute, storage, and network components of a converged infrastructure (CI) when invoked. Each task definition includes a task identifier (ID), one or more component configuration commands, and one or more task arguments through which one or more corresponding component configuration parameters are passed to corresponding ones of the one or more component commands. The technique further includes automatically invoking each of the task definitions by task ID according to an ordered sequence in order to configure the CI. The automatically invoking includes providing the one or more component configuration commands and the corresponding one or more passed configuration parameters of each invoked task definition to the respective ones of the CI components.

Abstract: Configuration models are accessed, each configuration model defining configuration attributes to be collected from a respective one of compute, storage, and network components of a converged infrastructure and collecting actual configuration attributes from each of the compute, storage, and network components of the converged infrastructure in accordance with the configuration models. A policy is accessed that defines configuration attribute rules corresponding to each of the configuration attributes collected from the compute, storage, and network components and comparing the collected configuration attributes to the configuration attribute rules for each of the compute, storage, and network components. Results of the comparing are reported, including which of the collected configuration attributes violate the corresponding configuration rules.

Abstract: A first technique is provided for automatically building multiple signature patterns representative of corresponding converged infrastructures (CIs), and a second technique is provided for automatically detecting pattern matches between one or more of the multiple signature patterns (and thus the model CIs) built using the first technique and an operating converged infrastructure (CI). Each of the signature patterns includes a compilation of component signatures representative of model compute, storage, and network components of the corresponding model CI. The second technique includes collecting component signatures from, and representative of, each of compute, storage, and network components of an operating converged infrastructure (CI), and pattern matching each of the collected component signatures against one or more of the signature patterns that represent the model CIs. The second technique also includes declaring match results based on the pattern matching.