Challenges
Today‘s virtualized data centers can only be managed using a variety of vendor-specific tools: tools to manage hypervisors, tools to manage storage systems, tools to manage enterprise applications. But without integrated monitoring and management across the whole IT stack companies cannot efficiently operate their data center resources.
Our Solution
Leveraging semantic technologies, the eCloudManager™ drives stack virtualization and delivers a one-console solution for private and public cloud management and monitoring, enabling companies to:
- simplify administration,
- increase IT efficiency and
- deliver flexible, scalable, fast, efficient and intuitive business solutions.
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Delivering an open platform that can integrate with practically any resource in the data center, as well as with public cloud resources, the eCloudManager provides its customers with a one-console innovative cloud monitoring and management solution to abstract from the underlying complexity of the data center.
» How Does It Work?
The eCloudManager platform integrates directly with the infrastructure and application resources through the API, and relies on an
in-memory database to provide scalable access to these resources and to gather information from the various layers in the data center – application, compute, network and storage.
The platform applies a semantic engine to correlate this data so as to enable the user to see the connections between resources. Thus, eCloudManager’s user can monitor, manage and control
- multiple enterprise storage arrays,
- multiple virtual and physical compute infrastructures, and
- multiple Virtual Landscapes equipped with enterprise applications.
This allows administrators to see, for example, which applications are running on which Virtual Machine, which IP and VLAN are assigned to the VM, and which storage LUN is attached to that VM.
Providing a policy engine filled with pre-packaged policies that can be fully customized or extended to meet customer-specific requirements enterprises can
- set the underlying rules to meet their own needs, and
- determine when and what events they should receive notifications for,
thus dramatically simplifying and speeding up processes such as root cause analysis and error handling. Using the eCloudManager the relationship between the resources and the impact a storage error will for example have on the VM and applications are immediately visible to the administrator.
Moreover, aimed at enabling the easy consumption of infrastructure resources and enterprise applications, the eCloudManager leverages native functionalities of the data center through tight API integration to deliver faster and more efficient system instantiation capabilities. For example, advanced storage features such as thin provisioning and storage-assisted cloning and snapping, as well as hypervisor functionalities are used to enable the rapid provisioning of enterprise application workloads with little to no manual effort and with minimum use of infrastructure resources.
Your Benefits
The solution enables enterprises to run an agile cloud to provide data center operators with a flexible and highly-automated application and IT infrastructure to run their workloads, by enabling
- a unified view over infrastructure and application resources through end-to-end data center resource integration and information correlation,
- automatic error discovery and error handling throughout the entire IT stack based on customizable rules,
- storage-assisted cloning of enterprise workloads in physical and virtual environments within minutes and without any post-provisioning effort based on process standardization and automation, and
- lower costs through optimizing IT stack resource utilization, increasing application accessibility, availability, performance and stability, and by simplifying administration and reducing daily workload.
Interested?
Please contact us for more information or visit the eCloudManager product page.
