Computing system with simulated hardware infrastructure to support development and testing of management and orchestration software

摘要

Techniques for building and implementing computing systems with simulated hardware infrastructures are provided to support, for example, development and testing of management and orchestration software. For example, a system includes a processing platform comprising hardware resources, and a simulated computing system executing on top of the processing platform using the hardware resources. The simulated computing system comprises simulated elements including a simulated compute node, a simulated network switch device, and a simulated power distribution device. The simulated compute node comprises a simulated hardware processor and a simulated storage device. The system further comprises a test control interface configured to enable a user to test the simulated computing system by injecting an error into the simulated computing system. For example, error injection includes manipulating a behavior of one or more of the simulated elements and/or simulating a failure of one or more of the simulated elements.