Technical Overview
| Secure Cloud Containers |
Cloupia Cloud Container provides the essential security network gateway services to truly enable multi-tenant virtual
data centers. It ensures the strong segmentation between multiple tenants in dynamic virtual and cloud environments.
End users and network admins can create these secure containers from self-service portal. It provides a secure fencing
around virtual and physical resources required by a tenant. Administrators can enforce robust security policies to define
granular access control between different infrastructure components and applications. It enables admins to setup
firewalls, fencing and secure zone using Cisco PIX/ASA, Linux firewall and others.
- Provides granular access control and required isolation between tenants, VMs and virtual data centers
- Ensures trusted access through monitoring, security controls and policies
- Firewall setup and configuration
- Ability to reuse IP addresses among multiple tenants
- Enables compliance by providing per tenant traffic information logs
- Simplifies and automates network segmentation and zoning
- Monitors and enforces network security policies
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| Bare metal provisioning |
| Cloupia's bare metal provisioning capabilities empowers users and IT admins to deploy servers more rapidly and to manage servers more efficiently. The Cloupia Unified Infrastructure Controller (CUIC) uses standard PXE booting process to boot bare metal machines and install the required operating systems. It simplifies the process of rolling out OS upgrades and patches since updating each server manually could be laborious and costly. It will enable unattended and automated installs of OS and hypervisor images on blades and servers. Cloupia solution provides PXE environment with pre-packaged servers - DHCP server, TFTP server and HTTP server. Bare-Metal Provisioning drastically improves the time-to-market by automating server deployments-from bare metal to just a few minutes instead of days. Cloupia server automation supports automating server provisioning at remote locations. |
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| VDI Management |
| Cloupia enables organizations to transform VDI infrastructure to desktop clouds by abstracting all the complexities of VDI infrastructure integration and management. Cloupia Unified Infrastructure Controller (CUIC) simplifies and centralizes overall VDI management functions such as profile management, desktop provisioning, desktop policy management, desktop cloning by eliminating point tools. |
Key Capabilities :
- Unified Data center Management & Automation
- Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
- Virtual Server Infrastructure
- Physical Infrastructure Management & Automation
- Centralized VDI management
- Auto-discovery
- End-to-end visibility
- Desktop lifecycle management
- Active directory integration & directory based entitlement
- VDI transformation to Desktop Cloud
- VDI infrastructure integration – sessions brokers, provisioning servers & AD
- VDI provisioning
- On-demand virtual desktop provisioning from self-service portal and service catalog
- Intelligent desktop VM placement using policy based adaptive provisioning
- Efficient resource utilization using rapid cloning and thin provisioning capabilities
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| NetApp Storage Automation |
Cloupia Unified infrastructure Controller (CUIC) and NetApp Unified Storage together enable and power next generation dynamic data centers. Cloupia's comprehensive management and automation of NetApp Unified Storage will make it easy for enterprises and service providers to build virtualized data centers. The service catalog provides integration of storage provisioning policies, data protection policies, and storage resource pools into a single service offering that administrators can choose during service provisioning. This not only automates much of the provisioning process but also automates a variety of storage management tasks associated with the policies.
Auto-discovery & Dashboards: The CUIC provides a unified dashboard to provide comprehensive, granular and correlated views into all NetApp components – LUNs, Volumes, Aggregates, Filers, vFilers and Storage Pools.
vFiler Management: The CUIC provides discovery, monitoring, management, reporting and provisioning of vFilers. The CUIC's vFiler management capability enables secure multi-tenancy by providing organizational level access control.
Policy-driven Provisioning: The CUIC enables policy based provisioning of LUNs and volumes. Users can create and map the LUNs to the data store. The CUIC also enables users to perform LUN resizes
Storage Orchestration: IT administrators can customize and automate NetApp administrative and operational tasks using an easy to use workflow UI designer. Cloupia provides built-in task library and UI designer where admins can visually design complex workflows.
Analytics & Reports: IT administrators can customize and automate NetApp administrative and operational tasks using an easy to use workflow UI designer. Cloupia provides built-in task library and UI designer where admins can visually design complex workflows.
Storage Service Catalog: The CUIC storage service catalog encapsulates the selection of physical storage systems, disk types, storage efficiency capabilities, backups and other features into a portfolio of service offerings. The service catalog lets you define service levels that specify attributes of compute and storage infrastructure.
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| Comprehensive Cisco UCS Automation |
CUIC provides a scalable and extensible platform to manage the Cisco Unified Data Center physical infrastructure components such as compute, network, data center fabric and storage. The system provides unified management of Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) and Cisco C-Series Rack Servers in a Data Center integrated with the Virtualization layer. CUIC model based system provides an accurate view of the state of the infrastructure and discover changes in real time. CUIC Intelligent Orchestrator automates the process of configuring the data center elements from ground up and reduces the overall costs of delivering services.
- Provides auto-discovery of all UCS components such as chassis, servers, fans, modules, memory units and disks
- Provides the inventory, operational and licensing status reports of all UCS components
- Provides configuration management, event management, power management, and availability of all UCS components
- Enables dynamic provisioning with service profiles of UCS
- Define and configure service profiles for server portability and high availability
- Provides role-based and policy-driven management of data center services using service profiles and templates of UCS Manager
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| EMC Storage Automation |
Cloupia unifies multiple siloed heterogeneous compute, storage, network and virtualization management into a single cohesive and complete cloud management system. Cloupia announces its support for EMC VNXe/VNX storage systems via single pane of glass. With CUIC, EMC's file and block storage systems can be managed via single unified interface along with other storages. Customers are looking for a simple and unified interface to manage and provision multiple storage environments. Cloupia provides a single unified management interface to enable management and orchestration across NetApp and EMC storage platforms.
Different IT teams can discover, provision and optimize EMC based storage systems. IT administrators can also customize and automate EMC storage administrative and operational tasks using an easy to use orchestration flows via GUI designer. Cloupia provides built-in tasks library for EMC and GUI designer where storage teams can visually design complex orchestration flows. IT teams can build and execute repeatable physical and virtual EMC storage provisioning workflows. The CUIC enables policy based provisioning of different storage resource pools.
Key capabilities:
- Centralized dashboards and deep visibility into storage tiers
- Discover, collect, provision and monitor different storage pools
- Single-pane of glass to manage EMC and other storage systems
- Provision and manage LUNs on both VNX and VMAX* systems
- Policy based automated storage provisioning
- Datastore provisioning and map to tenant virtual data centers
- Management of organizational storage usage
- Virtual and physical storage visibility, trends and capacity analysis
Supported EMC Storage Platforms:
- EMC VNX series
- EMC Symmetrix VMAX*
* Will be supported in Q2 12
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| Virtual Infrastructure lifecycle Management |
| Cloupia enables organizations to manage entire virtual infrastructure encompassing virtual servers, storage and networking. The Cloupia Unified Infrastructure Controller (CUIC) provides unified interface to discover, provision, manage, view and optimize virtual servers, storage and networking across private and public clouds. |
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VM Lifecycle Management:
- Auto discovery
- Policy driven VM provisioning
- Real time monitoring and alerts
- VM Inventory/Configuration management
- Change Management & auditing
- Retirement, reclamation of unused/ inactive VMs & archival
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VM Storage Management:
- ESX Datastore capacity and performance management.
- Policy driven VM storage auto provisioning, capacity monitoring and performance management.
- Heterogeneous virtual storage pool auto provisioning and management
- Policy driven auto provisioning of VM supported on Local, SAN & NAS storage
- Volume and EBS Management
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VM Network Management:
- Auto discovery of pNIC, vSwitch, port groups, VLAN, vNIC and associated port groups
- Policy driven network provisioning, VM port group and VLAN management.
- Configurable advanced network security policies
- IP Address Management
- Network capacity/performance management
- Key management
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| Comprehensive Organization Role Management – Roles, Access controls & Privileges |
Organizations need a holistic view of their business users, job functions, and associated entitlements. Comprehensive Organization Role Management enables automation of role based provisioning and access control. It also helps with provisioning approval, strengthening regulatory compliance and support routing.
The Cloupia Unified Infrastructure Controller (CUIC) enables organizations to easily model their organization structure and roles in cloud environments. The CUIC provides role-based access model with granularity required to limit the access to specific roles. As a result, Cloupia enables organizations to gain highest visibility and control needed by administrator groups and specific limited visibility and control needed by user groups.
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Organization roles and groups: Define and configure enterprise roles and groups
- Business user
- Finance/Controllers
- IS/System admin
- IT admins – Computing admin, Storage admin & Network admin
- IT operations and support
- Custom roles
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| Role-based access control: Access control according to roles |
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Finance/ Approvers |
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Computing Admin |
Storage Admin |
Network Admin |
IT Support |
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System Administration |
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Computing Administration |
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Storage Administration |
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Network Administration |
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Service Request |
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Approvals |
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Charge back |
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Limited Visibility |
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Comprehensive visibility |
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Role-based policy management: Administer, configure and enforce following role based policies
- System & service delivery policies by IS/System Admins
- Computing policies by Computing Admins
- Storage policies by Storage Admins
- Networking policies by Networking Admins
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| Policy driven Self-Service Provisioning |
The Cloupia Unified Infrastructure Controller (CUIC) provides a self service portal where virtual machines are provisioned from a pool of assigned resources using predefined policies. Self-service management reduces administrative burden and infrastructure management costs for IT. The users can provision and deploy VMs in a matter of minutes with self-service capabilities. The users can rapidly build or tear down the complex environments.
- Request new services (servers, applications, business systems)
- Modify and resize service requests
- Rapid provisioning using predefined policies
- Business policies
- Service delivery policies
- Computing policies
- Storage policies
- Networking policies
- Integrated service request process with approvals
- Budget and resource limits validation
- Configure lifecycle actions and setup
- Configure application specific pre and post deployment custom actions
- Configure lifecycle actions and setup
- Step-by-step notifications
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| Organizational Policy Enablement & Governance |
Deployments that enter production environments without adequate policy adherence often do not meet the organization’s requirements. Cloupia Unified Infrastructure Controller enables organizations to set and enforce policies easily to ensure compliance, governance and the smart provisioning. The true operational effeciecinces can only be realized if the operational processes and governance policies are integrated into the automated provisioning process.
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Computing policies
- Scope – Clusters, host nodes
- Resource allocation policies – CPU, memory, storage
- Application performance boundary policies
Storage policies
- Scope – Data stores, shared data
- Heterogeneous shared pools support
- Storage performance boundaries
Networking policies
- Network usage boundaries
- Network configuration policies
Business policies
- Regulatory & compliance
- Security
- Best practices
Budget/cost management policies
- Budget policies
- Resource limiting
- Billing policies
Service Delivery policies
- Deployment policies
- SLA policies
- Post deployment actions
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| Chargeback |
| Organizations gets the visibility and IT cost transparency about how much they are paying for resources and how much goes for unused, allowing them to optimize resource consumption and costs. Giving organizations in-depth information about cost drivers helps them make smarter decisions during budgeting processes, cost reduction analysis, billing and impact studies. It provides comparative analysis of spend vs plan to enable user behavioral modifications towards IT spending. Business and IT leaders can also use the data to make better projections about future resource needs. |
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Comprehensive infrastructure resource accounting
- Fixed overhead costs (Data center costs, people costs…)
- VM costs (Administration costs, software licensing costs…)
- Variable resource costs (CPU, memory, storage…)
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Flexible cost modeling & billing
Different groups in the organizations can define their own cost models to suit their IT and organizational structure and costs
- Fixed cost based policies
- Allocation based policies
- Usage based policies
- Customizable combination billing policies
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Data collection
- Hourly metering records & monthly aggregate records
- Exportable data for enterprise integration
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Reporting
- Multi-level chargeback reports
- Customizable chargeback reports
- Exportable reports & invoices using email, ftp, export
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| Automated reporting & visualization tools |
| By monitoring the performance of all data center systems (clouds, clusters, host servers and VMs) and resources (cpu, memory, storage & network), system administrators can make more informed and timely decisions. The Cloupia Unified Infrastructure Controller (CUIC) provides comprehensive visibility into infrastructure resources consumption in real time that significantly improves capacity planning. |
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- At-a-glance resource utilization & load distribution tree maps
- Inventory management reports – clouds, clusters, host server & VMs
- Real-time utilizations reports – cpu, memory, storage & network
- Capacity management reports – Top 5, under-utilized and over-utilized reports
- Chargeback reports
- Audit reports
- VM sprawl & VM aging reports
- Export reports into pdf, xls, html formats
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| Virtual Data Center Management |
| With virtual data centers, organizations can create multi-tenant isolated environments to combine virtual resources – compute, storage & network, operational details, rules and policies to manage specific group requirements. Multiple groups in organizations can share the same physical IT infrastructure but also can have isolated virtual environments at the same time with this capability. Images, templates and policies can be further customized at virtual data center level. Organizations can allocate quotas and assign resource limits for individual groups at virtual data center level. Administrators can manage groups at the virtual data center level from authentication, capacity and policy management perspective. |
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| Cloud Orchestration |
Cloupia’s cloud automation using cloupia orchestrator helps standardize IT services, reduces downtime and increase compliance. IT administrators can customize and automate many infrastructure administrative and operational tasks using easy to use workflow UI designer. Cloupia provides some built-in tasks and workflows where admins can further extend and customize.
- Build and edit automation workflows using an easy-to-use UI designer
- Automate manual & labor intensive operational and administrative tasks
- Monitor for alerts on the systems using predefined or custom workflows
- Ease management of complex IT infrastructures
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| Compute Management |
The CUIC monitors, manages and provisions physical and virtual servers from a single pane of glass. It also provides bare metal provisioning and blade power management. End users can perform VM lifecycle and snapshot management. It enables admins to perform server utilization trending analysis
Physical Server Management:
- Discover and collect server configurations and changes
- Monitor and manage physical servers
- Policy based server provisioning
- Blade power management
- Server life cycle management
- Server usage trending and capacity analytics
- Bare metal provisioning using PXE boot management
Virtual Compute Management:
- Discover, collect and monitor virtual compute environment – Clouds/vDC/Cluster/Host Nodes/VMs
- Policy based provisioning – dynamic resource allocation
- Host server load and power management
- VM lifecycle and snapshot management
- CloudSense Analytics – VM capacity, VM sprawl & host utilization analysis
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| Network Management |
The CUIC monitors and manages physical and virtual network from a single pane of glass. It enables policy based provisioning of physical and virtual switches. Admins can configure VLANs, vNICs, port groups, and port profiles. Admins can also configure IP/ DHCP allocation and ACLs across network devices. The CUIC provides dynamic network topologies.
Physical Network Management:
- Discover, collect and monitor physical network elements
- Provisioning of VLANs across multiple switches
- Configure Access Control Lists (ACLs) on network devices
- Configure Storage network
- Dynamic network topologies
Virtual Network Management:
- Add network to VM
- Policy based network provisioning – IP/DHCP allocation
- Configure and connect vNICs to VLANs & private VLANs
- Create port groups & port profiles to VM
- Organizational usage of virtual networks
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| Storage Management |
The CUIC monitors and manages physical and virtual storage from a single pane of glass. It enables policy based provisioning and management of filers, vFilers, LUNs and volumes. Admins get complete visibility into organizational usage, storage trends and capacity analysis.
Physical Storage Management:
- Discover, collect and monitor storage filers
- Policy based provisioning of vFilers
- Provisioning and mapping volumes
- LUN & iGroup creation and mapping
- SAN zone management
- Monitor and manage NAS & SAN based storage
- Storage best practices and recommendations
Virtual Storage Management:
- Discover, collect and monitor storage vfilers and storage pools
- Policy based storage provisioning – thick/thin
- Create new data stores and map to VDC
- Add and resize disk to VM
- Monitor and manage organizational storage usage
- Virtual storage trends and capacity analysis
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