Semantic Integration
- Unified API to access heterogeneous resources
- End-to-end monitoring and management of data center resources (enterprise storage, hypervisor, physical blade, network, enterprise application)
- Multi-geography data center management
- Extendable provider architecture
Automation
- Automated, on-demand provisioning of infrastructure resources and enterprise application landscapes
- No post-provisioning configuration necessary (e.g. hostname or application / SID change)
- Policy engine for error-tracking and handling data center-wide
- Advanced eMail, SMS and RSS notifications
- Resource usage and availability monitoring
- Integration of company-specific orchestration workflows
- Hybrid cloud support: Resource distribution between private and public clouds
Analytics
- Historical data management: User-defined charts over historical data
- Keyword search, queries, and visual exploration
- Collaborative documentation: Correlation of data center and business-level resources and collaborative acquisition of knowledge
- User-defined dashboards and reports to provide deep insight into the data center
Security
- User management: custom users and integration of LDAP users
- Role concept to meet data center compliance requirements
- Resource utilization monitoring
- Error- and failure detection and handling
- Real-time Audit Log and Jobs
Service Definition
- Template Library: Golden Template and Golden Landscape Library management for company-wide consistency
- Policy based workload placement: Template consistency management across multiple infrastructures
- Zone definition: Zone concept combining clusters and storage volumes or datastores for landscape placement and load balancing options
- Customizable SLA definition
- Resource reservation and management
Self-Service Portal
- Multi-tenant architecture
- One-click provisioning of infrastructure resources and enterprise application landscapes
- Utilization and service availability monitoring
- Metering and billing: Customizable cost calculation formula for granular pay-per-use pricing model
- Full control over provisioned systems: Ability to start, stop, restart, suspend or destroy systems with just one click