Overview; What Is The Platespin Orchestrate Vm Client - Novell PLATESPIN ORCHESTRATE 2.0.2 - VM CLIENT GUIDE AND REFERENCE 06-17-2009 Client Manual

Overview

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Review the following sections to understand the PlateSpin
Section 1.1, "What Is the PlateSpin Orchestrate VM Client?," on page 11
Section 1.2, "Understanding the Virtual Machine Life Cycle," on page 12
Section 1.3, "Using This Guide to Manage VMs," on page 13

1.1 What Is the PlateSpin Orchestrate VM Client?

The VM Client is a management interface that VM operators can use to manage the life cycle of the
virtual machines (VMs) in your enterprise, including creating, starting, stopping, migrating, and
deleting VMs. PlateSpin Orchestrate lets you better align IT to your business, control costs, and
minimize risks across all VM platforms in the data center. You can increase the functionality of your
data center by fully leveraging VMs as a usable resource.
The VM Client provides management of VMs from several different virtualization host types,
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including SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) Xen*, VMware* ESX Server (including the
vCenter* technology that adds VMotion* capability to ESX servers), and Microsoft* Windows
Server* 2008 with Hyper-V*.
The VM Client also allows you to manage both VMs and VM host servers in your data center. A
VM host is a server running the Orchestrate Agent.
For information on installing the VM Client, see
PlateSpin Orchestrate 2.0 Installation and Configuration
The VM Client provides the following:
A VM creation wizard that covers a VM's installation source and mode, its virtualization mode,
repository, and hardware configurations
A VM editing wizard, which can also be used to edit existing VMs, even those that are in a
running state
The ability to discover existing VMs residing on your VM host servers
The ability to discover VM host servers in your virtualization grid; a machine can be a host
server if it is running hypervisor software
Methods for controlling VMs, such as starting, stopping, pausing, and suspending
The ability to migrate a running VM from one host server to another in real time
The ability to install and manage the PlateSpin Orchestrate Agent on your VMs
The ability to make templates of VMs, including making clones of the templates
The ability to move a VM's repository from one host server to another
The ability to group VMs, VM hosts, repositories, and templates for easier management
Detailed views of the properties for each VM, host server, repository, and template
The ability to monitor your VMs and host servers in real time
Event logs for VMs, host servers, and templates
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Orchestrate VM Client from Novell
"Installing the Orchestrate VM
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Client" in the
Overview
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