User manual FUJITSU SIEMENS SERVERVIEW VIRTUAL-IO MANAGER V2.1 DATASHEET

[. . . ] This profile is used to easily allocate the server blades in the managed pool irrespective of location. A failover to a spare blade can be easily automated in conjunction with the new software ServerView Resource Coordinator Virtual Edition (SV RCVE) or the HA solution x10sure. This helps the administrator to construct a dynamic data center which can react automatically to events and thus always guarantee the required service level. The customer is able to define profiles for all his applications and store them centrally in the profile store irrespective of the HW, especially when used together with the remote boot function (PXE/SAN/iSCSI). The required application (boot image) can be started on the already defined network addresses (MAC, WWN and iSCSI-initiator, -target) without further configuration effort in LAN and SAN by simply assigning a specific profile (containing all the required parameters) to a blade server or also as an extension to a slot that is not used. [. . . ] As these profiles only contain virtual addresses, they can be relocated and assigned to any server blade in any chassis, as long as the respective chassis is still connected to the required LAN and SAN networks. I/O virtualization with Virtual-IO Manager ­ dynamic and simple In order to solve these issues the switches in the blade server chassis BX600 and BX900 can be replaced with special I/O connection blades that offer a simple means of grouping specific server blade I/O channels (port grouping, cable consolidation), but which do not have the complexity of a switch. Different I/O connection blades are available for this purpose: The Fibre Channel Access Gateway (FC AG) to link storage systems and the Intelligent Blade Panel (IBP) for the LAN connection. In BX900 these are not different HW modules, but simply an additional FW mode, providing the flexibility to use the connection modules either in traditional switch-mode or in Page 3 of 7 www. ts. fujitsu. com/viom DATASHEET FUJITSU ServerView Virtual-I/O Manager Version 2. 1 Software SV Virtual-IO Manager ­ Building block for a dynamic infrastructure environment Fujitsu recommends the use of ServerView Resource Coordinator Virtual Edition (SV RCVE) or x10sure as supplement in order to complete the dynamization of a data center environment and to use all the VIOM options. ServerView Resource Coordinator Virtual Edition works very closely together with VIOM as an orchestration tool and can help the administrator with many tasks or relieve him of them. This includes load distribution, reaction to Service Level Agreements or automatic failover with hardware failures. As a low-priced high-availability solution, x10sure offers more flexible use of existing resources, including automatic failover. the application or the service provided by the respective profile. Profiles may be created, copied, removed and assigned to a slot. Profile assignment Defining / cancelling the profile assignment to a slot in a SV VIOM-controlled chassis. On allocation, SV VIOM checks whether the number and the I/O channel concepts match that of the installed server blade and whether the required LAN connections are provided by the IBP uplinks on the chassis. A server blade pre-assignment can be made by allocating the profiles to empty slots. As the profile assignment is per slot including all "individual server parameters", failed server blades can then be replaced without incurring any problems or making any configuration changes. Switching the server blade on/off (boot/shutdown) Failover configuration Individual server blades can be defined as "spare blades" so that in the event of a fault the failover command can be used to simply and securely replace a failed server blade with a spare blade. Command Line Interface (CLI) All the important SV VIOM functions can also be used via a command interface. This provides the customer with the option of running self-written scripts and the systems can be distributed or deactivated according to current requirements or in order to reduce costs. Day/night operation can thus be easily implemented. Management concept and function features 1. Chassis configuration With ServerView VIOM (SV VIOM), compatible BX600 and BX900 blade server chassis can be identified via the standard discovery service of the ServerView Operations Manager. All chassis compatible with ServerView VIOM are automatically identified and can be easily imported into SV VIOM. Each blade server configuration is checked for SV VIOM compliance and the user can select those to be run under SV VIOM control. With the BX900, the LAN switches CB36/12, CB36/8+2 can be operated as required in IBP or switch mode; the role can be switched via the firmware at any time. When using IBP: Definition of all external LAN connections for each SV VIOM-controlled chassis. [. . . ] User manuals are part of the ServerView Suite DVD or can be downloaded from http://manuals. ts. fujitsu. com or can be ordered in printed form from http://fts-manualshop. com . Other company, product and service names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. DISCLAIMER FUJITSU GREEN POLICY INNOVATION www. fujitsu. com/global/services/computing/ Software FUJITSU Green Policy Innovation is our worldwide project for reducing burdens on the environment. Using our global know-how, we aim to resolve issues of environmental energy efficiency through IT. 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