July 11, 2013 at 15:33Fujitsu ServerView Suite
At any stage of the server’s life cycle, IT professionals working with it require special tools that save time on performing various maintenance and monitoring operations. So, depending on the tasks, tools can be used that allow installation of operating systems without user support, tools for monitoring the status and management of RAID, monitoring the status of servers and their operating systems, KVM tools, both software and hardware, as well as many other tools and tools.
To date, the market has a significant number of both integrated systems for performing the above operations, and individual utilities that implement one or two functions. One of these comprehensive solutions that allow you to effectively manage the main processes of the server life cycle is the Fujitsu ServerView Suite, which comes bundled with Fujitsu PRIMERGY servers. It is important that most of the functionality of this package is free and does not require additional costs.
ServerView Suite improves the flexibility of IT operations, increases their productivity while reducing cost, and helps maintain high server performance and fault tolerance in 24 × 7 mode.
All tools included in ServerView Suite can be divided into several areas or groups:
Deploy - tools for deploying operating systems and putting the server into operation;
Control - tools for monitoring and monitoring the status of the server;
Dynamize - means of dynamic administration of server resources;
Maintain - means of maintaining the health and ongoing maintenance of the server;
Integrate - the ability to integrate with products of other developers.
Schematically, the data of the ServerView Suite area and the functions included in them can be represented as follows:
To get a deeper understanding of this package, consider the main functionality of each of the areas.
ServerView Suite Deploy
This group includes the following components: Installation Manager, Deployment Manager, Scripting Toolkit, Integration Pack for Altiris DS. With the exception of Deployment Manager, which requires a separate license, all other products are included with the Fujitsu PRIMERGY servers.
ServerView Installation Manager- Provides the ability to initial local or remote installation of the operating system (Microsoft Windows, Red Hat, SUSE) or the hypervisor (VMware, Xen) on the server. It allows you to install operating systems in parallel on several servers (up to 5), supports installation without user intervention (unattended), automatically determines the hardware configuration of Fujitsu PRIMERGY servers and installs the appropriate drivers.
ServerView Deployment Manager is an additional paid module focused on mass commissioning of servers, allowing you to bypass the limitations of Installation Manager in 5 parallel servers. Saves up to 80% of the time when deploying data centers.
ServerView Scripting Toolkit- A set of utilities for WinPE and Linux (Red Hat and SUSE) that allow you to configure RAID, BIOS settings and iRMC.
ServerView Suite Control
The main idea of this group of programs is to provide a single, fully functional central administration point. It is created on the basis of Central Management Station (CMS) - a separate computer or server (including a virtual one), which hosts special ServerView Operations Manager software that collects information about Fujitsu PRIMERGY servers. This central module of administrative software monitors and analyzes physical and virtual servers and related infrastructure components. Based on user roles, server-servicing personnel are accessed by modules providing Server Monitoring, Power Management, Performance Management, and Storage Management.
ServerView Operations Managerto ensure the functionality of server monitoring (Server Monitoring) provides an overview of all servers and created groups:
In fact, the list of servers is the starting point for almost all administration functions. From it, you can view one specific system that will allow you to get information about the selected server first as a whole:
and then in details, for each individually selected subsection:
To ensure timely notification of responsible persons about problem situations, a ServerView Event Manager is provided, which is able to send notifications by sending special messages via email, SMS, pop-up messages on the administrator's workstation and in other ways. Event Manager also maintains appropriate logs and provides functionality for creating special scripts that work when certain conditions are met. So, for example, it is possible to configure the launch of any programs provided that one or another sensor (trigger) is triggered.
In addition, Operations Manager implements Prefailure Detection and Analysis (PDA) detection and analysis in server components such as processors, RAM, fans, hard drives, and a CMOS battery. Power Management
Features) servers consist in collecting statistics on energy consumption of servers and their groups, as well as in the possibility of limiting the maximum energy consumption of a server or group of servers. In the latter case, the server will reduce its performance by lowering the clock frequency or by disconnecting individual processor cores to ensure a specified level of power consumption. This functionality allows you to flexibly distribute energy resources between servers in time and increase the density of server installation in racks and data centers.
Performance managementmonitors the use and load of server resources (via CMS). In turn, by analyzing such congestion, you can identify both bottlenecks and unused resources, so you can optimize by migrating services or virtual machines from overloaded servers to servers with free capacity. Storage Management
functionality is implemented through ServerView RAID Manager, a special program for monitoring and managing the storage systems of the served servers themselves. It allows you to monitor the status of the disk subsystem, log events, create RAID arrays and manage them through a graphical user interface. ServerView Suite Dynamize
This is the only area of ServerView Suite, all of which are paid components. It includes ServerView Virtual-IO Manager (VIOM) and two editions of ServerView Resource Orchestrator: Virtual Edition (ROR VE) and Cloud Edition (ROR CE).
ServerView Virtual-IO Manager provides I / O virtualization for Fujitsu PRIMERGY servers by virtualizing MAC and WWN addresses, which simplifies the migration of virtual machines from one hardware server to another.
ServerView Resource Orchestrator Virtual Edition provides uniform management of virtual and physical servers, while its more advanced version of ServerView Resource Orchestrator Cloud Edition allows you to build full-fledged IaaS cloud infrastructures.
ServerView Suite Maintain
All Fujitsu PRIMERGY servers (with the exception of low-cost TX100 models) have a built-in integrated Remote Management Controller (iRMC) , which provides complete remote management (Remote Management) server regardless of its status and location. It provides access to the server, even if the operating system is not installed, turned off, or freezes. iRMC has a built-in web server that makes it easy to receive and interpret sensor readings and system events. IRMC Advanced Pack
Advanced Features(free of charge attached to blade servers, others must be purchased separately) provide redirection of the graphical and text console of the server, including the keyboard and mouse, as well as connecting a remote storage (hard disk, optical drive or USB drive) to the server.
ServerView Update Manager allows you to update the firmware of the firmware (firmware) and BIOS of the servers, as well as updating drivers and installing ServerView agents both directly on a separate server, and in parallel on a large number of servers. Has the ability to configure updates on a schedule and servers. ServerView Asset Manager and ServerView PrimeCollect
are designed to collect, store and process information about server hardware and software. In addition, ServerView Suite includes ServerView Online Diagnostics , applications that allow testing of RAM, processor, hard disk and optical drive.
ServerView Suite Integration
The last group includes the capabilities of integrating ServerView Suite into the most common management systems and in specialized solutions of other vendors. In particular, integration into the following products is supported: Fujitsu ManageNow, Microsoft SCCM, Microsoft SCOM, Microsoft SCOM / SCVMM (PRO Pack), HP Operations Manager, HP Systems Insight Manager, Nagios, Icinga, BMC Patrol. Integration with these solutions is done using the appropriate ServerView Integration Packs .
Instead of a conclusion
Above, we looked at the main components that make up the Fujitsu ServerView Suite. The slide below gives an idea of their distribution by regions, and also displays information about which of them are included in the delivery and which require the purchase of additional licenses.
In general, the considered package includes such a set of tools that allows you to perform almost any tasks that may arise during the installation, configuration and operation of the server. Thus, ServerView Suite is a key to improving the efficiency of IT services.
To date, the market has a significant number of both integrated systems for performing the above operations, and individual utilities that implement one or two functions. One of these comprehensive solutions that allow you to effectively manage the main processes of the server life cycle is the Fujitsu ServerView Suite, which comes bundled with Fujitsu PRIMERGY servers. It is important that most of the functionality of this package is free and does not require additional costs.
ServerView Suite improves the flexibility of IT operations, increases their productivity while reducing cost, and helps maintain high server performance and fault tolerance in 24 × 7 mode.
All tools included in ServerView Suite can be divided into several areas or groups:
Deploy - tools for deploying operating systems and putting the server into operation;
Control - tools for monitoring and monitoring the status of the server;
Dynamize - means of dynamic administration of server resources;
Maintain - means of maintaining the health and ongoing maintenance of the server;
Integrate - the ability to integrate with products of other developers.
Schematically, the data of the ServerView Suite area and the functions included in them can be represented as follows:
To get a deeper understanding of this package, consider the main functionality of each of the areas.
ServerView Suite Deploy
This group includes the following components: Installation Manager, Deployment Manager, Scripting Toolkit, Integration Pack for Altiris DS. With the exception of Deployment Manager, which requires a separate license, all other products are included with the Fujitsu PRIMERGY servers.
ServerView Installation Manager- Provides the ability to initial local or remote installation of the operating system (Microsoft Windows, Red Hat, SUSE) or the hypervisor (VMware, Xen) on the server. It allows you to install operating systems in parallel on several servers (up to 5), supports installation without user intervention (unattended), automatically determines the hardware configuration of Fujitsu PRIMERGY servers and installs the appropriate drivers.
ServerView Deployment Manager is an additional paid module focused on mass commissioning of servers, allowing you to bypass the limitations of Installation Manager in 5 parallel servers. Saves up to 80% of the time when deploying data centers.
ServerView Scripting Toolkit- A set of utilities for WinPE and Linux (Red Hat and SUSE) that allow you to configure RAID, BIOS settings and iRMC.
ServerView Suite Control
The main idea of this group of programs is to provide a single, fully functional central administration point. It is created on the basis of Central Management Station (CMS) - a separate computer or server (including a virtual one), which hosts special ServerView Operations Manager software that collects information about Fujitsu PRIMERGY servers. This central module of administrative software monitors and analyzes physical and virtual servers and related infrastructure components. Based on user roles, server-servicing personnel are accessed by modules providing Server Monitoring, Power Management, Performance Management, and Storage Management.
ServerView Operations Managerto ensure the functionality of server monitoring (Server Monitoring) provides an overview of all servers and created groups:
In fact, the list of servers is the starting point for almost all administration functions. From it, you can view one specific system that will allow you to get information about the selected server first as a whole:
and then in details, for each individually selected subsection:
To ensure timely notification of responsible persons about problem situations, a ServerView Event Manager is provided, which is able to send notifications by sending special messages via email, SMS, pop-up messages on the administrator's workstation and in other ways. Event Manager also maintains appropriate logs and provides functionality for creating special scripts that work when certain conditions are met. So, for example, it is possible to configure the launch of any programs provided that one or another sensor (trigger) is triggered.
In addition, Operations Manager implements Prefailure Detection and Analysis (PDA) detection and analysis in server components such as processors, RAM, fans, hard drives, and a CMOS battery. Power Management
Features) servers consist in collecting statistics on energy consumption of servers and their groups, as well as in the possibility of limiting the maximum energy consumption of a server or group of servers. In the latter case, the server will reduce its performance by lowering the clock frequency or by disconnecting individual processor cores to ensure a specified level of power consumption. This functionality allows you to flexibly distribute energy resources between servers in time and increase the density of server installation in racks and data centers.
Performance managementmonitors the use and load of server resources (via CMS). In turn, by analyzing such congestion, you can identify both bottlenecks and unused resources, so you can optimize by migrating services or virtual machines from overloaded servers to servers with free capacity. Storage Management
functionality is implemented through ServerView RAID Manager, a special program for monitoring and managing the storage systems of the served servers themselves. It allows you to monitor the status of the disk subsystem, log events, create RAID arrays and manage them through a graphical user interface. ServerView Suite Dynamize
This is the only area of ServerView Suite, all of which are paid components. It includes ServerView Virtual-IO Manager (VIOM) and two editions of ServerView Resource Orchestrator: Virtual Edition (ROR VE) and Cloud Edition (ROR CE).
ServerView Virtual-IO Manager provides I / O virtualization for Fujitsu PRIMERGY servers by virtualizing MAC and WWN addresses, which simplifies the migration of virtual machines from one hardware server to another.
ServerView Resource Orchestrator Virtual Edition provides uniform management of virtual and physical servers, while its more advanced version of ServerView Resource Orchestrator Cloud Edition allows you to build full-fledged IaaS cloud infrastructures.
ServerView Suite Maintain
All Fujitsu PRIMERGY servers (with the exception of low-cost TX100 models) have a built-in integrated Remote Management Controller (iRMC) , which provides complete remote management (Remote Management) server regardless of its status and location. It provides access to the server, even if the operating system is not installed, turned off, or freezes. iRMC has a built-in web server that makes it easy to receive and interpret sensor readings and system events. IRMC Advanced Pack
Advanced Features(free of charge attached to blade servers, others must be purchased separately) provide redirection of the graphical and text console of the server, including the keyboard and mouse, as well as connecting a remote storage (hard disk, optical drive or USB drive) to the server.
ServerView Update Manager allows you to update the firmware of the firmware (firmware) and BIOS of the servers, as well as updating drivers and installing ServerView agents both directly on a separate server, and in parallel on a large number of servers. Has the ability to configure updates on a schedule and servers. ServerView Asset Manager and ServerView PrimeCollect
are designed to collect, store and process information about server hardware and software. In addition, ServerView Suite includes ServerView Online Diagnostics , applications that allow testing of RAM, processor, hard disk and optical drive.
ServerView Suite Integration
The last group includes the capabilities of integrating ServerView Suite into the most common management systems and in specialized solutions of other vendors. In particular, integration into the following products is supported: Fujitsu ManageNow, Microsoft SCCM, Microsoft SCOM, Microsoft SCOM / SCVMM (PRO Pack), HP Operations Manager, HP Systems Insight Manager, Nagios, Icinga, BMC Patrol. Integration with these solutions is done using the appropriate ServerView Integration Packs .
Instead of a conclusion
Above, we looked at the main components that make up the Fujitsu ServerView Suite. The slide below gives an idea of their distribution by regions, and also displays information about which of them are included in the delivery and which require the purchase of additional licenses.
In general, the considered package includes such a set of tools that allows you to perform almost any tasks that may arise during the installation, configuration and operation of the server. Thus, ServerView Suite is a key to improving the efficiency of IT services.