1.3 Function Differences Depending on Product

The functions available for Resource Orchestrator differ depending on the Resource Orchestrator product purchased.

The functions available for ServerView Resource Orchestrator Virtual Edition (hereinafter ROR VE) and ServerView Resource Orchestrator Cloud Edition (hereinafter ROR CE) differ as follows:

Table 1.6 Function Differences Depending on Product
Function	Description	ROR VE	ROR CE
Server monitoring	A function for monitoring resource statuses of servers and displaying if the status is normal or not by using the GUI.	Yes	Yes
Power control	A function for turning servers ON or OFF.	Yes	Yes
Backup and restore	Creates system image backups of servers that can be easily restored when needed. System images are centrally stored on a disk on the admin server.	Yes	Yes
Hardware maintenance	Functions to simplify hardware replacement.	Yes	Yes
Server switchover	Recover applications upon hardware failure by switching over primary servers with pre-assigned spare servers.	Yes	Yes (*1)
Cloning	Creates a cloning image of a reference server and deploys it to other managed servers. Cloning images are centrally stored on a disk on the admin server.	Yes	Yes (*2)
Resource pool	A function for effective use of resources.	No	Yes
L-Server	A function that provides L-Servers, logical servers including physical and virtual servers, which are comprised of appropriate resources in a resource pool, such as servers, storage, OS images and network.	No	Yes
L-Platform	A function that provides hierarchical systems comprised of multiple L-Servers, network resources, and network device resources.	No	Yes
Template	A function that defines L-Platform and L-Server specifications to enable simple configuration of L-Platforms and L-Servers.	No	Yes
Tenants	A function that enables multiple departments to divide and share resources safely.	No	Yes
Dashboard	A function that can be used to easily check resource statuses.	No	Yes
Disaster Recovery	A function that prepares a backup system (a backup site) at remote sites to handle fatal damage caused by disasters, enabling administrators to perform switchover when trouble occurs.	No	Yes (*3)

*1: Available for physical servers registered in the server tree. For details, refer to "Chapter 8 Server Switchover Settings" of the "User's Guide VE".
*2: Available for physical servers registered in the server tree. For details, refer to "Chapter 7 Cloning [Windows/Linux]" of the "User's Guide VE".
*3: Available when the Disaster Recovery option is purchased.

The support provided for managed server hardware and server virtualization software differs for ROR VE and ROR CE.

The functions of ROR VE can be used with ROR CE, even with hardware and server virtualization software that is not supported.

Example

When using SPARC Enterprise series servers for ROR CE, server management operations, such as server maintenance and switchover can be performed. However, resource pool management operations are not available.

Table 1.7 Managed Server Hardware Differences Depending on Product
Software	Hardware	ROR VE	ROR CE (*1)
Manager	PRIMERGY RX series/BX series/TX series	Yes	Yes
Manager	PRIMEQUEST	Yes	Yes
Agent	PRIMERGY RX series/BX series/TX series	Yes	Yes
	Other PC servers	Yes	Yes
	PRIMEQUEST	Yes	Yes
	SPARC Enterprise series	Yes	No

*1: For details, refer to "1.5 Hardware Environment".

Table 1.8 Server Virtualization Software Differences Depending on Product
Software	Server Virtualization Product	ROR VE	ROR CE (*1)
Agent	VMware	Yes	Yes
	Hyper-V	Yes	Yes
	RHEL-Xen	Yes	Yes
	RHEL-KVM	Yes	Yes
	Citrix XenServer	Yes	No
	Oracle VM	No	Yes

*1: For details, refer to "1.4.2.1 Required Basic Software".