Resource Orchestrator Documentation Road Map
The documentation road map for Resource Orchestrator is as shown below.
Resource Orchestrator Documentation Road Map
Point
Refer to the user role manuals displayed in the table below for roles that are not in the diagram.
Roles that are not in the diagram | Roles that are in the diagram |
|---|---|
Infrastructure operator Infrastructure monitor | Infrastructure administrator |
Tenant operator Tenant monitor | Tenant administrator |
(Dual-Role) Administrator (Dual-Role) Operator (Dual-Role) Monitor | Infrastructure administrator and Tenant administrator |
For information about the documents for Resource Orchestrator, refer to "Chapter 1 Documentation Road Map" in the "Quick Start Guide CE".
Purpose
This manual explains how to operate ServerView Resource Orchestrator (hereinafter Resource Orchestrator).
Target Readers
This manual is written for system administrators who will use Resource Orchestrator to operate the infrastructure in private cloud or data center environments.
When setting up systems, it is assumed that readers have the basic knowledge required to configure the servers, storage, network devices, and server virtualization software to be installed. Additionally, a basic understanding of directory services such as Active Directory and LDAP is necessary.
Organization
This manual is composed as follows:
Provides an overview of the operation, maintenance, and monitoring of Resource Orchestrator.
Explains the methods for deliberately starting and stopping managers and agents.
Explains the management of user accounts.
Explains the management of tenants.
Explains the management of templates.
Explains the management of resources and resource pools.
Explains the management of L-Platforms.
Explains how to modify various setting information.
Explains the maintenance of hardware.
Explains how to use the backup and restore provided by Resource Orchestrator.
Explains how to monitor the configuration and status of managed resources.
Explains how to export the power consumption data collected from registered power monitoring targets and how to display it as graphs, and also describes the exported data's format.
Explains the monitoring of resource pools.
Explains the monitoring of L-Platforms.
Explains charging.
Explains the monitoring of logs.
Explains failover.
Explains the Disaster Recovery function for L-Servers.
Gives important reminders for the operation of Resource Orchestrator.
Explains metering logs.
Explains the terms used in this manual. Please refer to it when necessary.
Notational Conventions
The notation in this manual conforms to the following conventions.
When using Resource Orchestrator and the functions necessary differ due to the necessary basic software (OS), it is indicated as follows:
[Windows Manager] | Sections related to Windows manager |
[Linux Manager] | Sections related to Linux manager |
[Windows] | Sections related to Windows (When not using Hyper-V) |
[Linux] | Sections related to Linux |
[Solaris] | Sections related to Solaris or Solaris Containers |
[VMware] | Sections related to VMware |
[Hyper-V] | Sections related to Hyper-V |
[Xen] | Sections related to RHEL5-Xen |
[KVM] | Sections related to RHEL-KVM |
[Solaris Containers] | Sections related to Solaris containers |
[Oracle VM] | Sections related to Oracle VM |
[Physical Servers] | Sections related to physical servers |
[VM host] | Sections related to Windows Server 2008 with VMware or Hyper-V enabled |
Unless specified otherwise, the blade servers mentioned in this manual refer to PRIMERGY BX servers.
Oracle Solaris may also be indicated as Solaris, Solaris Operating System, or Solaris OS.
References and character strings or values requiring emphasis are indicated using double quotes ( " ).
Window names, dialog names, menu names, and tab names are shown enclosed by brackets ( [ ] ).
Button names are shown enclosed by angle brackets (< >) or square brackets ([ ]).
The order of selecting menus is indicated using [ ]-[ ].
Text to be entered by the user is indicated using bold text.
Variables are indicated using italic text and underscores.
The ellipses ("...") in menu names, indicating settings and operation window startup, are not shown.
The ">" used in Windows is included in usage examples. When using Linux, read ">" as meaning "#".
The URLs in this manual were correct when the manual was written.
Menus in the ROR console
Operations on the ROR console can be performed using either the menu bar or pop-up menus.
By convention, procedures described in this manual only refer to pop-up menus.
Regarding Installation Folder Paths
The installation folder path may be given as C:\Fujitsu\ROR in this manual.
Replace it as shown below.
When using Windows 64-bit (x64)
C:\Program Files (x86)\Resource Orchestrator
When using Windows 32-bit (x86)
C:\Program Files\Resource Orchestrator
Abbreviations
The following abbreviations are used in this manual:
Abbreviation | Products | |
|---|---|---|
Windows | Microsoft(R) Windows Server(R) 2008 Standard | |
Windows Server 2008 | Microsoft(R) Windows Server(R) 2008 Standard | |
Windows 2008 x86 Edition | Microsoft(R) Windows Server(R) 2008 Standard (x86) | |
Windows 2008 x64 Edition | Microsoft(R) Windows Server(R) 2008 Standard (x64) | |
Windows Server 2003 | Microsoft(R) Windows Server(R) 2003 R2, Standard Edition | |
Windows 2003 x64 Edition | Microsoft(R) Windows Server(R) 2003 R2, Standard x64 Edition | |
Windows 7 | Windows(R) 7 Professional | |
Windows Vista | Windows Vista(R) Business | |
Windows XP | Microsoft(R) Windows(R) XP Professional operating system | |
Linux | Red Hat(R) Enterprise Linux(R) 5 (for x86) | |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux | Red Hat(R) Enterprise Linux(R) 5 (for x86) | |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Red Hat(R) Enterprise Linux(R) 5 (for x86) | |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Red Hat(R) Enterprise Linux(R) 6.2 (for x86) | |
RHEL5-Xen | Red Hat(R) Enterprise Linux(R) 5.4 (for x86) Linux Virtual Machine Function | |
RHEL-KVM | Red Hat(R) Enterprise Linux(R) 6.2 (for x86) Virtual Machine Function | |
DOS | Microsoft(R) MS-DOS(R) operating system, DR DOS(R) | |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server | SUSE(R) Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86 | |
Oracle VM | Oracle VM Server for x86 | |
ESC | ETERNUS SF Storage Cruiser | |
GLS | PRIMECLUSTER GLS | |
Navisphere | EMC Navisphere Manager | |
Solutions Enabler | EMC Solutions Enabler | |
MSFC | Microsoft Failover Cluster | |
Solaris | Solaris(TM) 10 Operating System | |
SCVMM | System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 | |
VMware | VMware vSphere(R) 4 | |
VMware ESX | VMware(R) ESX(R) | |
VMware ESX 4 | VMware(R) ESX(R) 4 | |
VMware ESXi | VMware(R) ESXi(TM) | |
VMware ESXi 5.0 | VMware(R) ESXi(TM) 5.0 | |
VMware Tools | VMware(R) Tools | |
VMware vSphere 4.0 | VMware vSphere(R) 4.0 | |
VMware vSphere 4.1 | VMware vSphere(R) 4.1 | |
VMware vSphere 5 | VMware vSphere(R) 5 | |
VMware vSphere Client | VMware vSphere(R) Client | |
VMware vCenter Server | VMware(R) vCenter(TM) Server | |
VMware vClient | VMware(R) vClient(TM) | |
VMware FT | VMware(R) Fault Tolerance | |
VMware DRS | VMware(R) Distributed Resource Scheduler | |
VMware DPM | VMware(R) Distributed Power Management | |
VMware vDS | VMware(R) vNetwork Distributed Switch | |
VMware Storage VMotion | VMware(R) Storage VMotion | |
VIOM | ServerView Virtual-IO Manager | |
BladeLogic | BMC BladeLogic Server Automation | |
ServerView Agent | ServerView SNMP Agents for MS Windows (32bit-64bit) | |
RCVE | ServerView Resource Coordinator VE | |
ROR | ServerView Resource Orchestrator | |
ROR VE | ServerView Resource Orchestrator Virtual Edition | |
ROR CE | ServerView Resource Orchestrator Cloud Edition | |
Resource Coordinator | Systemwalker Resource Coordinator | |
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The contents of this manual are subject to change without notice.
Month/Year Issued, Edition | Manual Code |
|---|---|
November 2011, First Edition | J2X1-7611-01ENZ0(00) |
December 2011, 1.1 | J2X1-7611-01ENZ0(01) |
January 2012, 1.2 | J2X1-7611-01ENZ0(02) |
February 2012, 1.3 | J2X1-7611-01ENZ0(03) |
March 2012, 1.4 | J2X1-7611-01ENZ0(04) |
April 2012, 1.5 | J2X1-7611-01ENZ0(05) |
July 2012, 2 | J2X1-7611-02ENZ0(00) |
October 2012, Third Edition | J2X1-7611-03ENZ0(00) |
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