Novell Cloud Manager

Novell Cloud Manager Features

• Access Anywhere, Anytime

Manage your entire cloud environment–including business services, workloads and resources–right from your iPhone using the exclusive Novell Cloud manager mobile app.

• Deliver business services faster

Novell Cloud Manager fully automates complex provisioning workflows—from requests and approvals to creating and deploying new business services.

• Integrates with best-in-class security and business service management

Novell Cloud Manager integrates with Novell Sentinel™ (for event correlation) and Novell Operations Center (for visibility into business efficiency)

• Build on the virtual infrastructure you have today

Designed for today’s mixed IT environments, Novell Cloud Manager runs across all major hypervisors, including VMware, Hyper-V and Xen.

• Template-based provisioning

Reduce manual effort by automatically creating and deploying workloads. IT administrators can produce a catalog of predefined workload templates, and business teams “shop” the user-friendly catalog. Novell Cloud Manager even determines the optimal location in which to deploy new workloads.

• Specifying user and workload policies

Secure your environment, maintain compliance and reduce costs. Novell Cloud Manager allows infrastructure managers to stipulate which users can request specific workloads, resources and service levels.

• Utilization tracking

Control expenses by tracking resource allocation to maximize your current investment and minimize your future expenditure. With Novell Cloud Manager, you’ll have unparalleled visibility into your business efficiency. Translate this insight into actionable policy by allowing users to request and receive only the resources they really need.

• A streamlined provisioning process

Working across your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructures, Cloud Manager dramatically reduces the time and costs of provisioning. The automated, template-based provisioning process allows users to request, approve and deploy new workloads using a single portal–quickly and easily.

• Designed for today's mixed IT environments

Fulfill the promise of utility computing by unifying your physical, virtual and cloud environments. Easily integrated with all major hypervisors, the solution allows you to build a comprehensive and unified workload management platform on top of your current infrastructure.

• Control virtual sprawl, improve cost transparency

Virtualization makes it easier, faster and cheaper to provision new servers. The unfortunate result? Virtual server sprawl. Novell Cloud Manager reduces virtual waste by reintroducing transparency to the provisioning process.

• Scales to public cloud capacity

With its massive scalability, Novell Cloud Manager is the perfect solution for enterprises of any size. Whether your business is just ramping up or well-established, you can rest assured your Novell solution will grow with you.

• Creates a secure and compliant environment

Novell Cloud Manager respects and enforces your organization's internal approval process, as well as best practices like ITIL. Security profiles can be configured at the user, group, workload, and business service levels, ensuring consistent application of security policies and rights management.

• Supports flexible service-level management

Administrators can create multiple tiers of service levels, price them appropriately and publish them in the catalog. Users then choose the service level that best suits their needs and budget.

• Integration with other WorkloadIQ products

Novell Cloud Manager integrates with other best-in-class WorkloadIQ™ products, such as Novell Sentinel and Novell Operations Center. As a result, you enjoy better event detection and unparalleled visibility into your business efficiency.

• Secure self-service request portal

The self-service portal allows business teams to easily request resources while maintaining alignment with IT policy and security privileges. By exposing the real price of workloads, resources and service requests, the portal encourages business users to select and pay only for what they really need.

• Role-based provisioning and access control

The self-service portal allows business teams to easily request resources while maintaining alignment with IT policy and security privileges. By exposing the real price of workloads, resources and service requests, the portal encourages business users to select and pay only for what they really need.

• VLAN management

Novell Cloud Manager offers Enterprise IT organizations the ability to support multi-tenancy, which enables their infrastructure to securely host virtual machines (VMs) belonging to different internal IT customers via isolation of network traffic.