What’s new in Cloupia Unified Infrastructure Controller V2.3?

  • Virtual Data Center Management – With virtual data centers, organizations can create multi-tenant isolated environments to combine virtual resources, operational details, rules and policies to manage specific group requirements. A group can have and manage multiple virtual data centers. Images, templates and policies can be further customized at virtual data center level. Organizations can allocate quotas and assign resource limits for individual groups at virtual data center level.
  • Cisco UCS support – CUIC provides auto-discovery, monitoring and complete visibility to manage all Cisco UCS components – chassis, servers, fans, modules, memory units and disks. Provides ability to configure and manage service profiles for dynamic load balancing and power management.
  • VM snapshots: End users can create and manage snapshots for restore points during recovery from disasters and malfunctions. Users can take the snapshot of the VMs at any time and revert to that snapshot at any time. Provides VM snapshot summary reports and ability to mark Gold snapshots.
  • VM access and credentials management – End user can configure unique credentials and self-manage secure access to VMs via web access or remote desktop. Users can lock and un-lock the VMs.
  • Restful API access – Access, authenticate, configure and manage Cloupia managed clouds and exposed functionality in CUIC using Restful API.
  • White labeled self-service portals: Organizations can customize and white-label self-service portals for its customers.
  • Distributed virtual switch support – Provides administration, monitoring and provisioning of distributed virtual switch.
  • Service Request Management Enhancements – Added provisioning service request cancellation, resubmission and logging capabilities.
  • Group administration – Access, create, manage and administer group level resources, VMs, policies, catalog items and users by Group Admins.
  • Added more capacity and inventory management reports
    • VM density report
    • Resource pool report
    • Inactive VMs report
    • Over-utilized and under-utilized resources report
    • Top 5 reports (Groups, vDCs, Hosts)
  •  Customizable dashboards using drag and drop widgets by users and admins
  •  End-user self-service password reset
  •  VM lease extensions
  •  Admins can configure auto deletion of inactive VMs to control the VM sprawl
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