Systemwalker Resource Coordinator Virtual server Edition
This innovative new product, Resource Coordinator Virtual server Edition, enables control of both physical and virtualized blade servers via a single management view. It also achieves virtualization in Storage Area Networks, reducing operational costs and IT resource expenditure.
The growing IT environments in many organizations continues to challenge operational efficiency. Demand for improved ROI through infrastructure optimization and more efficient use of available resources has lead to increased use of blade servers. However, integration onto blade servers still requires additional system administration to maintain configuration flexibility and stable operation. New ways to implement seamless IT resource management are required.
Fujitsu’s Resource Coordinator Virtual server Edition plays a key role in PRIMERGY Blade Server deployment by reversing growing system administration workload trends. It also maximizes the interoperability and high availability of the servers and storage it manages.
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Key Benefits
- Reduced system administration workloads
System visualization provides the ability to orchestrate resources and view all relevant information. It provides instant system-wide understanding of the impacts and causes of any problems that may occur. In addition installation and configuration processes are simplified and centralized, reducing administrative effort and increasing deployment flexibility. Even scheduled maintenance is more efficient through collective patch application and the ability to run backups during business operations. - TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) reduction
Better and more flexible use of existing resources, stable system operation and reduced administration workloads will all provide TCO reduction benefits.
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Features
Visualizes and simplifies operation of both physical and virtual blade servers
- Both physical and virtualized blade servers can be operated and managed using the same single management view and consistent operational procedures.
- Regular operations such as booting and shutdown, operating system activation and backup, are now handled with a consistent and seamless operational procedure. Irrespective of whether the servers are physical or virtual entities.
- The hierarchical systems view also enables quick identification of both physical and virtual servers affected by hardware problems allowing faster recovery and minimizing service disruptions.
Storage Area Network virtualization
- By cooperating with the industry standard SAN virtualization features of PRIMERGY Blade Servers, Systemwalker Resource Coordinator reduces the workload for system administrators changing SAN configurations when switching servers.
- This also assures simple connectivity of PRIMERGY Blade Servers to existing SAN environments with multi-vendor devices and management tools, and is equally effective for FUJITSU ETERNUS storage systems.
- Configuration automation of storage and networks when installing and replacing blade servers further improves operational efficiency by minimizing the server management process and eliminating human error.
- Inter-working of the I/O virtualization (FC) of PRIMERGY Blade Servers and Systemwalker Resource Coordinator Virtual server Edition requires no changes to SAN configurations when switching severs. Therefore, coordination between server management and storage management administration is simplified.
- The adoption of all relevant industry standards and virtualization technologies means PRIMERGY Blade Servers can be connected to any existing SAN environment.
Lower cost, high availability blade server systems
- Based on server and storage virtualization technologies, lower cost and high availability blade server systems can be implemented, irrespective of the physical and virtual environment.
- Operational continuity can be maximized via automatic recovery processes, which allow failure detection to initiate recovery action.
- Systemwalker Resource Coordinator Virtual server Edition provides those features as standard. There is no need to purchase additional software or scripts to activate the virtualization functions.
- By cooperating with VMware HA functions, this product further lowers IT resource expenditure, supporting “N+1 stand-by” high availability systems; which require only a single spare server, sharable by both physical and virtual server environments.
