NEC SigmaSystemCenter 3.0 highlights

NEC SigmaSystemCenter 3.0 highlights

NEC Corporation

2nd IT Software Division

IT Network Global Solutions Division

NEC SigmaSystemCenter 3.0 highlights

Cloud Management

Multitenancy Resource Pool Role Management

Life Cycle Management Service Portal

Logical Network/IP Address Pool

Expanding supported hypervisor Supporting distributed switch High-speed Scale-out

VM Optimized Creation

Machine Profile/Host Profile

Enhanced Datastore Management VM Optimized Placement Rule

Simple configuration of physical computers and virtual hosts

Enhanced Performance Monitoring Agentless Monitoring

Enhanced Console Access Function DeploymentManager 6.0 and

ESMPRO/ServerManager Ver.5

Multitenancy Resource Pool Role Management

Life Cycle Management Service Portal

Logical Network/IP Address Pool

Cloud Management

Virtualization management is enhanced in SSC(*1)3.0, which

realize

infrastructure management in cloud environment.

These feature also helps the customer who has not deployed

cloud system, realizing

efficient implementation and operation.

How clouds operate with SSC

Servers Storage_devices

Network

devices Images Sub Resource Pool

App OS

IP/VLAN pool Image library Tenant A Users Configu ration Maintenance and troubleshooting by users The VM and resources of other tenants cannot be accessed System administrator Resource pool Tenant creation/

Creation of user for tenant administrator/

Allocation of sub resource pool

Resource pool creation/extraction

from the sub resource pool

App OS App

OS

Sub Resource Pool

App OS

IP/VLAN pool Image library Tenant B Users Configu ration Maintenance and troubleshooting by users App OS App OS

Service portal Service portal

Improve resource utilization by sharing resources between multiple

tenants

The resources managed by SSC are shared among the tenants.

Because you do not need to assign specific servers, storage devices, or switches to each tenant, the resources in the system can be used efficiently. This is explained in further detail in the resource pool

section on the next slide.

Security must be a consideration while sharing resources. Users from other tenants should not be able to view resource usage or control a guest OS. SSC offers protection against this security issue. More information is provided in the section on role management.

Managing resources in a large-scale environment is simple

In a resource pool, management is simplified because resources are managed as virtual resources such as virtual CPU and virtual memory which compose virtual machine.

Resources can be managed at the tenant level

A portion of the resources are extract to form a sub resource pool that is assigned to a tenant for use. The efficient use of resources is

possible through the sharing of one resource pool among multiple tenants.

Visualize resource usage

Visualize the usage of a resource pool to view the usage of resource pools and sub resource pools. This makes possible the prediction of shortages and planned increases of resources.

Cloud Management - Resource Pool

Conceptual diagram

Sub resource pool A

Sub resource pool B Resource pool usage status

Your system is secure because users from other tenants cannot access the guest OS or resources.

Manage tenant users through a tenant administrator

You can limit the resources to which each user has access by specifying roles to each tenant user.

Manage usage history

The strict management of resource expiration dates is important. It is

especially so for the tenant lending service, in which charges are based on the beginning and end date of usage and how much the resource was used.

Therefore, managing the resource life cycle and understanding its usage history is necessary. You can also keep a track on the history of a guest OS powering on and shutting down.

Manage a history of configuration changes

You can manage a history of changes made to the guest OSs.

Make groups through smart grouping(*)

Service start date Service end date

The number of days remaining until service start date The number of days elapsed sine the service end date

Cloud Management Life Cycle Management

Cloud Management Service Portal

Making the SSC screen available to end users

There are instances in which a guest OS must be restarted because a guest OS sometimes stalls. A service portal is offered in which users can solve such problems themselves without going through a tenant administrator.

Portal

Create a guest OS Start or restart the guest OS

Etc. Log in as a tenant user

Cloud Management Logical Network/IP Address Pool

Defines logical networks composed of tenant

VLAN IDs

and guest

OS

IP address pools

.

You can centrally manage which VLAN ID and IP address are pooled with which tenant.

Automatically specifies linked VLANs and IP addresses when a virtual host or guest OS specified by the logical network starts operation.

KVM is now supported in addition to VMware, XenServer, and Hyper-V

RHEL6.0 KVM is supported.

Expanding supported hypervisor

XenServer

KVM

Support VMware vNetwork Standard Switch / Distributed Switch

Creating port group (VLAN) from SSC is possible and port group is assigned dynamically in guest OS creation.

vDS can make private VLAN which realize flexible network design by

Network isolation is important in security point of view for multi tenant environment in cloud.

Guest OS high-speed scale out by Differential Clone

Differential Clone is an option feature and must be purchased separately

High-speed Scale-out

Dramatically reduce VM creation time

by Differential Clone.

The more guest OS you create, the more effective you

receive. (Around

5 minutes to create 50VM

.)

Disk usage reduction

is also possible using this technology.

Master VM System disk VM01 VM02 VM03 Reference Reference

Reference User-specific data

High-speed Scale-out

Differential Clone also brings benefits from an operations perspective.

Reconstruct

Applies a patch to the master VM and rapidly updates every VM

Revert Master VM _VM01 VM02 System disk after patch application Master VM System disk VM01 Disk difference VM02 Disk difference

The increased differencing disks are discarded and the state at the time of creation is restored.

Suitable for operations such as help desks in which returning to the initial state occurs at regular intervals

Reduce time to apply individual information

Reduce time to set up Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2 using disk duplication function, which will help to improve gust OS creation process in Hyper-V, XenServer.

Automatic selection of the best host and storage device when creating a guest OS Selects the most suitable host and balances CPU and memory loads

Selects the most suitable storage device and balances storage consumption

VM Optimized Creation

Creates guest OS on servers to distribute the host and storage device loads.

Support host profile in addition to machine profile and those profile

can be referred from specific tenant.

Machine profile

Definition of machine specification such as virtual CPU, virtual memory. Created guest OSs with different of specification using the same template.

Hardware spec information have been separated from templates.

Guest OS is created based on machine profile specification. Possible to reconfigure by changing machine profile

Host profile

Definition of OS setting information.

User name/password, Workgroup/Domain setting. DNS/WINS

Host Profile setting is used when a machine is activated in SSC.

Machine Profile/Host Profile

Creating guest OSs with different specifications using the same

template is possible by machine profile.

Batch modification of guest OS configurations

Datastore configuration

Users can specify priority levels and exceptions for datastores. The maximum usage (%) and the number of VMs that can be created can also be specified for each datastore.

Specifying a datastore through attributes

Users can specify a tag attribute such as gold and silver to datastores. By specifying tags to datastores in a computer profile, the guest OS is created in the most suitable datastore with the specified attribute tag.

Enhanced Datastore Management

Tag: gold Tag: silver

App OS App OS Management server datastore selection CPU: 2 Memory: 4 GB NIC: eth0, eth1 Disk: System - 10GB

datastore: gold tag

Guest OS creation

In addition to VM-VMS(Pin) rule

VM-VM(EQ)

rule is also

supported.

VM-VMS(Pin) rule relates a specific virtual machine to a specific host. VM-VM(EQ) rule relates a specific virtual machine to another specific virtual machine.

Runs related multiple guest OSs on the same host.

Realize reduction of service response and performance degradation.

VM Optimized Placement Rule

Host01 Host02 Host03 Live migration or failover

Control of network devices connected to physical computers and

virtual hosts (such as switches and load balancers) and storage

devices can be implemented from the UI of SSC.

VLANs (including tagged VLANs) and storage devices that have been set to the group are automatically assigned when starting operations on a computer. Users can centrally configure and manage systems without manually specifying each server, network, and storage device.

virtual switch and virtual distributed switch, and

Hyper-virtual network can also be configured.

When changing configuration, you can modify system configuration settings (such as additional tagged VLAN or storage settings) and then these changes can be reflected to the machines running in a group at once.

Integrate SystemMonitor console to SSC view.

Power consumption monitoring

Ping monitoring/Port monitoring

PET report reception

Monitor server not supported by ESMPRO ServerAgent.

ESXi and ESX in vSphere5

A certain level of failure detection is possible by monitoring failure via vCenter.

XenServer

Console access to VM

Hyper-V, XenServer, KVM is also supported in addition to VMware.

Remote access to serial console on physical machine.

The serial console uses IPMI Serial Over Lan (SOL) and opens a SOL session to BMC of a machine to communicate with.

Enhanced Console Access Function

Access to a console using utilities such as Remote Desktop or a dedicated tool is not needed. All machines can be operated from a management server. The BIOS screen can be used before staring up the OS. It is effective for

DeploymentManager 6.0

Web UI renewal

Improve operation and realize to manage images centrally

Backup/Restore can be executed though SSC

without scenario

setting.

ESMPRO/ServerManager 5.0

Web UI renewal

Integrate server management function for In-Band/Out-of-Band

Improve N+1 operation by controlling vIO Control function, IO

Shared Switch in SIGMABLADE.

Enhanced SIGMABLADE Integration

Replace

vIO Control function is a technology

that virtualizes MAC addresses,

WWN and UUID

.

The information configured by vIO Control function (such as virtual MAC, virtual WWN, and virtual UUID) can be controlled from SSC. If a failure should occur so the spare machine can be activated with the same setting as the failed machine.