Cloupia unifies compute, storage, network and virtualization management into a single cohesive and complete cloud management

system. Cloupias comprehensive management and automation of Cisco UCS will make it easy for enterprises and service providers to build virtualized data centers. Cloupia provides self-service portal, service catalog, orchestrator and resource management components to manage and orchestrate complex multi-tenant virtualized data center environments. The unique value proposition of UCS is its ability to optimally support a virtualized data center through unification of server, storage and network resources. The completely virtualized data center with Cisco UCS and Cloupia Unified Infrastructure Controller provides organizations the benefits of high availability, reduced administration and higher service levels. The Cloupia Unified Infrastructure Controller (CUIC) accelerates delivery of data center services through end-to-end policy-driven self provisioning for both virtualized and non-virtualized systems. Todays data center capacity planning and dynamic workload provisioning requires integrated monitoring and management of both physical and virtual environments. Cloupia offers single pane of management, integrated management, organizational role based access control and policy management to enable virtualized multi-tenant data centers. Cloupia provides discovery, monitoring, provisioning and lifecycle management of physical and virtual infrastructure. Customers can fully automate their data center operations and improve resource utilization significantly with the Cloupia and Cisco UCS integrated solution. Administrators can get complete visibility into organizational usage, trends, and capacity analysis.

Key Capabilities:

Auto-discovery of all UCS components such as chassis, servers, fans, modules, memory units and disks Inventory, operational and licensing status reports of all UCS components Configuration management, event management, power management, and availability of all UCS components Continuous monitoring of resource utilizations and capacity Dynamic provisioning with service profiles and templates Role-based and policy-driven management of data center services

Service Profiles Management:

Cloupia provides unified interface for top-to-bottom service orchestration of Cisco UCS. With Cloupia Unified Infrastructure Controller (CUIC), users can create and deploy service profiles and templates for servers and applications. Users can deploy an instance of a complex application that spans multiple servers in a distributed environment using service profiles. Users can migrate and replicate the service profile from one physical blade server to other blades. It greatly simplifies service catalog development and enabling on-demand service delivery. The CUIC enables role-based and policy-driven management of data center services using service profiles and templates. The CUIC automation using service profiles reduces the number of manual steps required to configure servers, network interface cards (NICs), host bus adapters (HBAs), LAN and SAN switches. It drastically reduces setup times and configuration error rates. It also significantly improves IT productivity, server portability and high availability. The key capabilities include Create and clone service profiles Create server profile templates Associate service profiles Configure network control policies Configure uplink port channels Create vNIC templates Create MAC Address pools for fabric interconnects Create WWNN & WWPN pools Create boot policies and boot server pools Create SAN/vHBA templates Configure connectivity parameters - VLAN, VSAN Set QoS System class/Jumbo frames in UCS fabric

Auto-discovery & Dashboards:

The CUIC automatically discovers and monitors UCS chassis, network adapters, fabric interconnects, disks, and fabric extenders. It also discovers the virtual environment within the UCS blades. The CUIC provides unified dashboard to provide comprehensive, granular and correlated views into all UCS components. It also provides complete visibility into inventory, operational and licensing reports of all UCS components. The CUIC provides role-based access model with granularity required to limit the access to specific roles.

UCS Blade provisioning:

The CUIC provisions compute infrastructure without the time-consuming manual coordination between different IT groups. Administrators can define the policies for compute infrastructure and network connectivity using service profiles. The CUIC uses standardized PXE (Pre Boot Execution environment) booting process for provisioning bare metal infrastructure. It will enable unattended and automated installs of OS and hypervisor images on Cisco UCS blade servers.

Unified Orchestration:
IT administrators can customize and automate Cisco UCS administrative and operational tasks using easy to use workflow UI designer. Cloupia provides built-in task library and UI designer where admins can easily visually design complex workflows. IT teams can build and execute repeatable physical and virtual infrastructure provisioning workflows without complex custom scripts and expensive system integration engagements. Cloupias orchestrator helps standardize IT services, reduces downtime and increase compliance.

Analytics & Reports:

The CUIC provides the real time reporting of resources health and utilization capabilities. The CUIC provides visibility into real time physical and virtual infrastructure resources consumption that leads into efficient capacity planning. The Cloupia unified management of compute, network and storage access elements speeds discovery and eliminates the tedious and error-prone process of manually correlating information about disparate system components. Administrators can quickly detect and remedy bottlenecks or outages affecting application performance and availability.

About Cloupia :
Cloupia, a cloud automation and management software provider, offers a suite of cloud computing products and solutions to power the next generation dynamic data centers. Cloupia enables organizations to build their own internal private clouds as well as manage public and hybrid clouds using a single pane of glass. Cloupia provides the most comprehensive cloud management solution with infrastructure control, provisioning, management and monitoring capabilities across physical, virtual and cloud environments. Cloupia helps organizations to smoothly evolve from static data center or virtual environments to private and public cloud environments with the necessary automation and management tools. Cloupia is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

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