Semantic Integration
- Unified API to access heterogeneous data sources
- End-to-end monitoring and management of data center resources (enterprise storage, hypervisors, physical blades, network, enterprise applications, business resources)
- Multi-site data center management
- Extensible provider architecture to allow for on-demand integration of additional data sources
Automation
- Automated, on-demand provisioning of compute and storage resources and enterprise application landscapes
- No pre- or post-configuration necessary
- Policy engine for error-tracking and handling data center wide
- Advanced email and SMS notifications
- Resource usage and availability monitoring
- Integration of company-specific orchestration workflows
- Hybrid cloud support – resource distribution between private and public clouds
- Policy-based workload placement
Self-Service Portal
- Multi-tenant architecture
- One-click provisioning of infrastructure resources and enterprise application landscapes
- Monitoring of use levels and service availability
- Metering information for billing – customizable cost calculation formula to create detailed pay-per-use pricing models
- Full control over provisioned systems – ability to start, stop, restart, suspend, extend or delete systems with just one click
Cloud Analytics
- Historical data management – user-defined charts over historical data
- Keyword search, queries and visual exploration of data
- Collaborative documentation – correlation of data center and business level resources and collaborative acquisition of knowledge
- User-defined dashboards and reports to provide deep insights into the data center
Cloud Security
- User management – custom users and integration of LDAP and Active Directory users
- Role concept to meet data center compliance requirements
- RSA SecurID® integration
- ACL-based authorization for resources, data and operations
- Resource usage monitoring
- Error and failure detection and handling
- Real-time audit log and jobs
Service Definition
- Customizable service catalog for infrastructure, storage or application templates
- Zone concept combining compute and storage resources for service placement and load balancing options
- Customizable SLA (Service Level Agreement) definition
- Resource reservation and management
- Support for multi-level structures – each department or organization can define a portal, service catalog, SLAs, users and prices for its sub-departments or sub-organizations, and monitor usage
