Today’s datacenter architectures are getting complex with a mix of data center infrastructure, including servers, storage, networks and virtualization.  Organizations typically use multiple vendor specific tools to manage virtualized data centers. Virtualized data centers cannot be operated efficiently without integrated infrastructure monitoring and management tools.  To fully realize the benefits of private cloud, organizations must have a self-service portal with full self-service catalog that includes both virtual and physical infrastructure.  Most of the cloud platforms lack a management layer which can handle physical, virtual and cloud based resources. IT teams are worried that they will be forced to use multiple tools to manage different sets of environments. Having a diverse set of management tools not only adds to the complexity but also increases the failure rate. IT leaders expect a sing le set of integrated solution that offers them an end to end solution to manage the entire lifecycle of   the complex IT environment. Organizations can reduce operational overhead by automating entire IT stack.

Cloupia offers an integrated solution that allows IT to manage physical, virtual and cloud layers as well as other IT functions like monitoring, capacity planning, chargeback, etc...  This not only reduces the capital and operating expenses but also bridges islands of storage, server and IT service management with integrated infrastructure resource Management. Cloupia’s integrated management not only streamlines the creation and management of Virtual Data Centers but also offers a complete visibility across the entire IT stack, thereby, helping in performance analysis and troubleshooting. This vastly reduces the complexity giving IT a seamless way to manage the existing infrastructure as well as the new cloud based infrastructure. Cloupia offers single pane of management, integrated monitoring, organizational role based access control and policy management to enable virtualized multi-tenant data centers. Cloupia also provides self-service portal, orchestrator and resource management components to manage and orchestrate complex multi-tenant virtualized data center environments.

Cloupia’s main features:

• 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
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• 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

(Source: White paper – Cloudpia Data Center Orchestration)