Ensuring operational integrity and performance of deployed converged infrastructure information handling systems

1. A method comprising:

performing at least one of:

operational integrity operations; and

performance validation operations;

wherein the operational integrity operations include:

accessing an operational integrity schema, said schema including:

a task manifest, associated with an infrastructure manager, identifying one or more operational tasks; and

a performance manifest, corresponding to the task manifest, including one or more performance thresholds for the one or more of the operational tasks;

invoking the infrastructure manager to perform the one or more operational tasks;

monitoring the infrastructure manager for status information for the one or more operational tasks;

recording a completion status and a time required to complete at least some of the one or more operational tasks; and

responsive to detecting a time required to complete a particular operational task exceeding a corresponding performance threshold, reporting information pertaining to the particular operational task; and

wherein the performance validation operations include:

accessing a performance validation manifest indicative of one or more performance tests and performance thresholds;

configuring an image manifest of a benchmark image in accordance with the performance validation manifest;

interacting with an infrastructure manager to deploy the benchmark image to a node under test;

instructing an image agent of the benchmark image to execute performance tests in accordance with the image manifest; and

obtaining performance metrics from the image agent.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the infrastructure manager comprises an infrastructure and virtual machine (I/VM) manager configured to manage managed infrastructure.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the operational tasks include one or more tasks selected from:

creating a virtual machine;

migrating a virtual machine;

creating a storage volume;

migrating a storage volume; and

creating a virtual network.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the infrastructure manager comprises private cloud operations.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the operational tasks include tenant operations including:

connecting to a self-service portal;

creating a test user;

self-subscribing to a tenant plan;

creating virtual machines;

creating virtual networks;

connecting to tenant-created virtual machines;

starting a tenant-created virtual machine;

shutting down a tenant-created virtual machine;

deleting tenant-created virtual machines; and

recovering tenant-created virtual machines.

6. The method of claim 4 , wherein the operational tasks include administrative operations comprising:

connecting to an administrative console;

creating tenant networks;

creating storage shares;

invoking a maintenance mode for a compute node;

live migrating a virtual machine;

storage migrating a storage volume; and

creating tenant plans.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the infrastructure manager comprises a backup and disaster recovery manager.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the operational tasks include tasks selected from:

performing at least one of:

creating a backup of an existing virtual machine; and

restoring a virtual machine from an existing backup; and

replicating a virtual machine on a secondary site.

9. An information handling system comprising:

a processor; and

computer readable storage medium including processor executable instructions that, when executed by the processor cause the processor to perform operations comprising:

performing at least one of:

operational integrity operations; and

performance validation operations;

wherein the operational integrity operations include:

accessing an operational integrity schema, said schema including:

a task manifest, associated with an infrastructure manager, identifying one or more operational tasks; and

a performance manifest, corresponding to the task manifest, including one or more performance thresholds for the one or more of the operational tasks;

invoking the infrastructure manager to perform the operational tasks;

monitoring the infrastructure manager for status information for each of the operational tasks;

recording a completion status and a time required to complete each operational task; and

responsive to detecting a time required to complete a particular operational task exceeding a corresponding performance threshold, report information pertaining to the particular operational task; and

wherein the performance validation operations include:

accessing a performance validation manifest indicative of one or more performance tests and performance thresholds;

configuring an image manifest of a benchmark image in accordance with the performance validation manifest;

interacting with an infrastructure manager to deploy the benchmark image to a node under test;

instructing an image agent of the benchmark image to execute performance tests in accordance with the image manifest; and

obtaining performance metrics from the image agent.

10. The information handling system of claim 9 , wherein the infrastructure manager comprises an infrastructure and virtual machine (I/VM) manager configured to manage managed infrastructure.

11. The information handling system of claim 10 , wherein the operational tasks include one or more tasks selected from:

creating a virtual machine;

migrating a virtual machine;

creating a storage volume;

migrating a storage volume; and

creating a virtual network.

12. The information handling system of claim 9 , wherein the infrastructure manager comprises a private cloud portal.

13. The information handling system of claim 12 , wherein the operational tasks include tenant operations including:

connecting to a self-service portal;

creating a test user;

self-subscribing to a tenant plan;

creating virtual machines;

creating virtual networks;

connecting to tenant-created virtual machines;

starting a tenant-created virtual machine;

shutting down a tenant-created virtual machine;

deleting tenant-created virtual machines; and

recovering tenant-created virtual machines.

14. The information handling system of claim 12 , wherein the operational tasks include administrative operations comprising:

connecting to an administrative console;

creating tenant networks;

creating storage shares;

invoking a maintenance mode for a compute node;

live migrating a virtual machine;

storage migrating a storage volume; and

creating tenant plans.

15. The information handling system of claim 9 , wherein the infrastructure manager comprises a backup and disaster recovery manager.

16. The information handling system of claim 15 , wherein the operational tasks include tasks selected from:

performing a backup of an existing virtual machine;

restoring a virtual machine from an existing backup; and

replicating a virtual machine on a secondary site

forcing a shutdown of the virtual machine on the secondary site and ensuring availability of the virtual machine via the secondary site.

17. A non-transitory computer readable medium, comprising processor executable instructions that, when executed by the processor cause the processor to perform operations comprising:

performing at least one of:

operational integrity operations; and

performance validation operations;

wherein the operational integrity operations include:

accessing an operational integrity schema, said schema including:

a task manifest, associated with an infrastructure manager, identifying one or more operational tasks; and

a performance manifest, corresponding to the task manifest, including one or more performance thresholds for the one or more of the operational tasks;

invoking the infrastructure manager to perform the operational tasks;

monitoring the infrastructure manager for status information for each of the operational tasks;

recording a completion status and a time required to complete each operational task; and

responsive to detecting a time required to complete a particular task exceeding a corresponding performance threshold, report information pertaining to the particular operational task; and

wherein the performance validation operations include:

accessing a performance validation manifest indicative of one or more performance tests and performance thresholds;

configuring an image manifest of a benchmark image in accordance with the performance validation operations;

interacting with an infrastructure manager to deploy the benchmark image to a node under test and execute;

instructing an image agent of the benchmark image to execute performance tests in accordance with the image manifest; and

obtaining performance metrics from the image agent.

18. The computer readable medium of claim 17 , wherein the infrastructure manager comprises an infrastructure and virtual machine (I/VM) manager configured to manage managed infrastructure.

19. The computer readable medium of claim 18 , wherein the operational tasks include one or more tasks selected from:

creating a virtual machine;

migrating a virtual machine;

creating a storage volume;

migrating a storage volume; and

creating a virtual network.

20. The computer readable medium of claim 17 , wherein the infrastructure manager comprises private cloud operations and wherein the operational tasks include tenant operations comprising:

connecting to a self-service portal;

creating a test user;

self-subscribing to a tenant plan;

creating virtual machines;

creating virtual networks;

connecting to tenant-created virtual machines;

starting a tenant-created virtual machine;

shutting down a tenant-created virtual machine;

deleting tenant-created virtual machines; and

recovering tenant-created virtual machines.