Being mainly a networks guy (With a little ESXi experience) I have been tasked with creating a Proof of Concept for a private cloud offering that the business wants to offer to it's partners.
So I am looking for some advise if anyone knows of an overlay to ESXi that will allow for Multi Tenancy, but to 3 levels. As the SP we have overall view of everything, and then each Partner level has a view of their customers only, and obviously customers only get to see their own level. I have been pointed in the direction of 2 pieces of software the 1st is Abiquo, whilst this handles the tenancy pretty well, it has issues with external storage that isn't NetAPP (We will be using EMC VNX's). The other is VMWares own Vcloud Director, this works well with the storage and everything else you would except, but I am yet to fully figure out the tenancy piece, it will handle 2 levels, but not the 3 needed so well.
As far as the hardware is concerned Compute will be based on a couple of HP c7000 blade chassis, which will be located in diverse datacentres. Storage will be EMC's VNX's again in each location. So any ideas about how to handle failover would also be great
Networking is straight forward for me 
I knew I shouldn't have mentioned I had messed around a bit with ESXi a year or so ago
So I am looking for some advise if anyone knows of an overlay to ESXi that will allow for Multi Tenancy, but to 3 levels. As the SP we have overall view of everything, and then each Partner level has a view of their customers only, and obviously customers only get to see their own level. I have been pointed in the direction of 2 pieces of software the 1st is Abiquo, whilst this handles the tenancy pretty well, it has issues with external storage that isn't NetAPP (We will be using EMC VNX's). The other is VMWares own Vcloud Director, this works well with the storage and everything else you would except, but I am yet to fully figure out the tenancy piece, it will handle 2 levels, but not the 3 needed so well.
As far as the hardware is concerned Compute will be based on a couple of HP c7000 blade chassis, which will be located in diverse datacentres. Storage will be EMC's VNX's again in each location. So any ideas about how to handle failover would also be great
Networking is straight forward for me I knew I shouldn't have mentioned I had messed around a bit with ESXi a year or so ago