ServerView Resource Orchestrator V3.1 Cloud Edition

Dynamic Resource Management

Dynamic resource management delivers the foundation for efficient provisioning processes in data center backend operations, enabling implementation of dynamic IT environments that are agile enough to improve time-to-market for IT services.

Resource orchestration - automated provisioning from pools of resources

ServerView Resource Orchestrator Cloud Edition automatically provisions IT infrastructure from shared pools of resources covering servers, storage and networks. Automated provisioning tasks relieve infrastructure administrators from mundane manual tasks, enabling faster delivery of servers and more efficient life-cycle operations. The results are overall productivity improvements with a positive effect on data center operational costs. Unlike many private cloud management platforms ServerView Resource Orchestrator Cloud Edition is not limited to virtual environments. It simultaneously enables provisioning of physical systems providing broader choices, when users are looking for the best fit platform for their application needs. When managing individual resource pools, ServerView Resource Orchestrator Cloud Edition not only provides interfaces to Fujitsu’s own management platforms, but also integrates with management products from major technology partners.

Logical server and platform concept

With its logical platform (L-Platform) concept, ServerView Resource Orchestrator Cloud Edition introduces an abstraction layer that hides the complexity of the underlying IT infrastructure. Now end-users or tenant administrators can define their required systems, including all parameters for storage, network connectivity and security settings (firewall), at a logical level. A logical platform can include just a single server but also multiple servers with mixed types of physical or virtual operating systems; for example to setup a multi-tiered server architecture.

Operation security

To support operation security in enterprise data centers, ServerView Resource Orchestrator Cloud Edition enables administrative isolation of resource pools for different user groups (multi-tenancy). For setting up network security automatic provisioning of hardware and software firewalls is supported. Software firewall support via the Fujitsu NS appliance can be configured as part of an L-Platform and is available as an additional licensed option. In addition ServerView Resource Orchestrator Cloud Edition offers role-based management which allows separation of application and infrastructure administration domains. The benefit is each domain can now concentrate on its specific core competencies.

High-availability

ServerView Resource Orchestrator Cloud Edition guarantees the availability of IT infrastructures by providing a number of highavailability options at various levels. From the protection of single physical and virtual servers, to recovery support for a complete blade chassis or storage system failure, to protection against complete site failures. Disaster Recovery (DR) is available as an additional licensed option.

Cloud Infrastructure Management

Service creation

In order to simplify end-user access to IT infrastructure resources, ServerView Resource Orchestrator Cloud Edition introduces cloud infrastructure management. This enables the creation of infrastructure services from pools of shared resources. These can then be published as service templates in a service catalog.

Service requests

Users can select services, on demand, from the self-service portal, using the service catalog. According to individual needs the template based services can be customized within pre-defined limits. Following any necessary approval process, which is controlled by the integrated subscription workflow management system ServerView Resource Orchestrator Cloud Edition automatically provisions and releases the service for use. Once provisioned, users have control over their own resources. They can start, stop, backup or even issue requests to modify the existing configuration.

Service monitoring

ServerView Resource Orchestrator Cloud Edition provides a range of service monitoring options (i.e. dashboard) allowing end users and IT administrators to get a consolidated view on utilization of resource pools and performance metrics of resources currently in use.

Service accounting

The accounting capability of ServerView Resource Orchestrator Cloud Edition enables IT organizations to link pricing information to resources showing users the costs of the requested IT infrastructure. This information can provide the foundation for companies wishing to implement charge back models. Having the cost transparency for selfservice resource requests allows business units to better understand the cost of deploying and maintaining their business services.

Capacity management

ServerView Resource Orchestrator Cloud Edition allows infrastructure administrators to get insight into the utilization of all resource pools including the option to set thresholds to get an early notification of pools running out of resources. For planning the future demand of resources, ServerView Resource Orchestrator Cloud Edition shows a demand forecast based on the past utilization of resource pools. When running in a VMware environment, ServerView Resource Orchestrator Cloud Edition supports administrators to optimize resource allocation on VM hosts. ServerView Resource Orchestrator Cloud Edition shows the current load status of VM hosts to identify VM hosts running into performance problems. In order to better balance workloads or to temporarily adapt resources according to future peak demands, ServerView Resource Orchestrator Cloud Edition allows simulation and execution of VM guest reallocations.