PlateSpin Orchestrate

Orchestrate your data center

Let's take a look at the big picture. How do you get virtualization, high-performance computing and other advanced technologies working together for maximum value?

Virtual machine management

Who directs all your virtual assets? It doesn't have to be you. PlateSpin Orchestrate is a Novell product that helps data center administrators to automate the management of large collections of virtual machines. It keeps your physical and virtual resources working together and focused on your business priorities. When a problem arises, PlateSpin Orchestrate can automatically take action. For example, it can provision and configure a new virtual server, and get it up and running to perform whatever business-critical task is needed.

Policy-driven optimization

Easily match your workloads with just the right resources. An extensible policy definition language allows you to control exactly how workloads and resources are matched. Powerful constraint and rule-based execution policies make it simple to automate the reservation of resources. Reservation of shared resources can also be pre-empted from lower priority tasks. This ensures that your most critical operations are performed while meeting service-level objectives. In addition, resource operations can be scheduled or triggered by events based on utilization and performance metrics.

Auditing and reporting

Log and track the information you need to report. Accounting and auditing functionality logs task activity for reporting purposes. You get aggregated cost accounting for scheduled tasks and compute processing consumed in a shared resource pool.

Run Book Automation

PlateSpin Orchestrate is the ideal platform to instrument the creation of workflows that automate the provisioning of composite applications across shared and fixed resource pools. Policies can be used to ensure that service levels are maintained as demands are increased. Workflows can be crafted based on different constraints and hierarchy, allowing IT administrators to establish automated control of the process flow across multiple systems based on time, workload, user, service level, and resource types.

HPC ready

Maximize the performance of your grid-based applications. Compute-processing management helps your grid-based applications to maximize performance in two important ways. First, by intelligently distributing parallel executions. And second, by automating high performance multi-cast data transfers to remote processing resources..

Freedom of choice

Take control of all kinds of virtual machines. PlateSpin Orchestrate supports all major hypervisors: Microsoft Hyper-V, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server with Xen and VMware ESX (with or without Virtual Center) and ESXi (with Virtual Center). PlateSpin Orchestrate discovers virtual machine hosts and existing virtual machines, and can provision newly-created virtual machines to the appropriate hosts.