Technical Overview
| 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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End user |
Finance/ Approvers |
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Computing Admin |
Storage Admin |
Network Admin |
IT Support |
User & group mgmt |
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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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| Cisco UCS Support |
| CUIC provides auto-discovery, monitoring and complete visibility to manage all Cisco UCS components – chassis, servers, fans, modules, memory units and disks. Provides ability to configure and manage service profiles for dynamic load balancing and power management. |
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