1. 1
IBM Systems
Feilong Overview
Toolkit environment for cloud management in a LinuxONE environment
–Written in Python
–Target consumers are cloud solutions.
• Develop driver/plugin which implements features by calling the REST API.
–Examples of management areas
• Guest images
• Network
• Disk volumes
–Installed and runs in a “Bring Your Own Linux” virtual machine
Governed by the Open Mainframe Project of the Linux Foundation
–https://www.openmainframeproject.org/
–Incubation Project
–Original code provided by IBM (2017) with continued IBM involvement
• (previously called z/VM Cloud Connector)
© 2019 IBM Corporation

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IBM Systems
Example High-level Solution
LinuxONE Partition
z/VM Hipervisor
ServiceLinux
OpenStack
Managed
Linux
SMAPI
LinuxONE Partition
z/VM Hipervisor
ServiceLinux
OpenStack
Managed
Linux
SMAPI
Managed
Linux
OpenStack Compute Node
Neutron Nova
Feilong SDK
OpenStack Compute Node
Neutron Nova
OpenStack Controller
NeutronScheduler
Horizon
Glance
Cinder
Feilong SDK
© 2019 IBM Corporation

3. 3
IBM Systems
Feilong SDK Internal Architecture
LinuxONE Partition
z/VM Hipervisor
Bring your own
Linux Virtual
Machine
SMAPI
Service
Virtual
Machines
Feilong SDK
SMAPI Wrapper (smcli)
Transition layer for
cloud enablement
REST API layer for
transition layer
SDK
© 2019 IBM Corporation