Key Features
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Release Notes for Cisco VFrame Data Center 1.1
OL-10402-01
Service Networks
These are instantiations of a service template. These represent the running
application service network. Physical resources get mapped to a service network.
A service network is an equivalent of an “object” in object oriented programming.
It gets derived out of general “class” (template) but has specific properties
associated with the applications that it is running.
Discovery
VFrame discovers x86 based servers, Network attached and Fiber Channel
attached storage, Ethernet and Fiber Channel switches and network services
modules such as firewalls and load balancers.
Resource Pooling
The discovered physical resources can be grouped into various groups based on
capabilities, performance, types, availability, and other user defined filters based
on the discovered attributes.
Policies
VFrame has built-in policies that allow changes to the application infrastructure.
VFrame monitors server capacity and load through a host-based agent. The
built-in policies allow server adds and deletes for CPU or memory-based
thresholds, or time-based events.
External policies can be input through the VFrame web services interface.
This allows data center administrators to manage asynchronous workloads much
more efficiently by not having dedicated servers that will idle during non-peak
hours associated with each application.