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Heterogeneous Management

Heterogeneous Management
Aug 1, 2011
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Heterogeneous Management

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Citrix Self Service Manager can also connect to VMware vCenter to handle provisioning across virtualization platforms.


Resource Pools

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The virtual machines that will be used by the Self Service Manager tool are seen here from the XenCenter management client.


Active vApps

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The virtual machine test02 is seen here being created in a Self Service Manager workspace prior to being placed into a tenant catalog for access by tenant users.


Performance

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A group of virtual machines (ewkTest…) that were created in Self Service Manager are monitored here from the IT point of view through the XenCenter console.


Console

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Virtual Machines at the request of authorized users and under the direction of the Self Service Manager are seen here in the XenCenter console view.


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Users

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Users are governed by quotas that limit the total memory, storage, virtual CPU and Virtual Machines that can be requested.


Personas

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User roles limit what each type of user can do in Self Service Manager. Persona characteristics are easily modified in through the administrative console.


Tenant Capacity

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Like users, tenant resource use can be capped.

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