Novell PLATESPIN ORCHESTRATE 2.0.2 - ADMINISTRATOR REFERENCE 06-17-2009 Reference

25 For more information, see the PlateSpin Orchestrate 2.0 Server Portal Reference. ...

B.3 Multi-homed Hosts A multi-homed host is a machine with more than one network interface configured. This can be anything from a Linux system being used as a network router to a laptop computer with both an active Ethernet connection and an active wireless connection. If there are two or more network interfaces active at the same time (even if only one is actually being used) the system is “multi- homed.” Some operating systems like Linux provide only very rudimentary routing as a default part of the operating system. They rely on ext ...

1 9 1Basic PlateSpin Orchestrate Concepts This section contains the followings information: � Section 1.1, “Understanding PlateSpin Orchestrate Architecture,” on page 9 � Section 1.2, “Understanding PlateSpin Orchestrate Functionality,” on page 20 1.1 Understanding PlateSpin Orchestrate Architecture PlateSpin Orchestrate from Novell is an advanced datacenter management solution designed to manage all network resources. It provides the infrastructure that manages group of ten, one hundred, or thousands of physical or virtual resources. PlateSpin ...

� “Constraints” on page 13 � “Groups” on page 14 � “VM: Hosts, Images, and Instances” on page 14 � “Templates” on page 14 Resources All managed resources, which are called nodes, have an agent with a socket connection to the Orchestrate Server. All resource use is metered, controlled, and audited by the Orchestrate Server. Policies govern the use of resources. PlateSpin Orchestrate allocates resources by reacting as load is increased on a resource. As soon as we go above a threshold that was set in a policy, a new res ...

17 Figure 1-4 The Job Scheduler For more information, see “Resource Selection” in “Using PlateSpin Orchestrate Jobs” in the PlateSpin Orchestrate 2.0 Developer Guide and Reference and “The PlateSpin Orchestrate Job Scheduler” in the PlateSpin Orchestrate 2.0 Development Client Reference. See also “Job Scheduling” and “Job” in the PlateSpin Orchestrate 2.0 Developer Guide and Reference. Provisioning Jobs Jobs also drive provisioning for virtual machines and blade servers. Provisioning adapter jobs are deployed and organized into appropr ...

21 1.2.2 Policy-Based Management Policies are aggregations of facts and constraints that are used to enforce quotas, job queuing, resource restrictions, permissions, and other user and resource functions. Policies can be set on all objects and are inherited, which facilitates implementation within related resources. Facts, which might be static, dynamic or computed for complex logic, are used when jobs or test scenarios require resources in order to select a resource that exactly matches the requirements of the test, and to control the access and assignmen ...

19 Figure 1-6 PlateSpin Orchestrate Development Client � Job Interface: Includes a customizable/replaceable Web application and the zosadmin command line tool. The Web-based Server Portal built with this API provides a universal job viewer from which job logs and progress can be monitored. The job interface is accessible via a Java API or CLI. A subset is also available as a Web Service. The default PlateSpin Orchestrate Server Portal leverages this API. It can be customized or alternative J2EE* application can be written. � PlateSpin Orchestrate Moni ...