IC - Modules at a glance
| Module | Performance description |
|---|---|
| IC-CIDeR | ... stands for flexible backups, efficient restore and reliable disaster recovery. Completely connected to TSM and HP Data Protector. |
| Centralized Infrastructure Disaster Recovery |
IC-CIDeR backs up entire virtual systems during operation and offers automated, flexible backups with one click. Take advantage of image backups processed according to a schedule and compressible directly on tape (e.g. with Tivoli Storage Manager) and manage your virtual world by means of differentials and backup generations at an affordable price. Including VCB support. |
| IC-MoRe | ... informs and reports about relevant events in your virtual world. |
| Monitoring and Reporting |
IC-MoRe monitors the status oft he ESX / XenServers and the virtual machines. The administrator is informed immediately whenever a threshold is reached (e.g. the drive has run out of space) or an event occurs (e.g. VM is in snapshot mode). |
| IC-PreCog | ... stands for zero downtime of your virtual infrastructure and highest availability of your services and applications. |
| Precognition |
After having received the detection and evaluation of critical events by system management solutions, IC-PreCog shifts affected virtual machines prematurely and automatically onto other ESX / XenServers. Even the entire virtual server farm can be shifted to to the backup data center – all that during operation. The overall stability of the systems is increased to the maximum since no downtime influences the operation of the guest systems.. |
| IC-RICS | ... secures high availability on a sophisticated level. |
| Reliable Infrastructure Cluster Services |
IC-RICS monitors VMware ESX / Citrix XenServers and their virtual machines in the server farm together with VMware vCenter / Citrix XenCenter. IC-RICS increases the availability for all guest systems supported by VMware / Citrix on ESX / XenServers:In case of one or more ESX / XenServer failure, IC-RICS restarts the VMs on the hosts that are still running, making applications and appliances available again after only a short period. |
| IC-SchED | ... allows to integrate backup processes into global scheduling solutions and starts and distributes virtual machines according to a predefined pattern and schedule. |
| Job Control |
IC-SchED makes it possible to integrate all backup processes into global scheduling solutions - so you can even schedule backup jobs of mixed environments (VMware & XenServer). In addition, IC-SchED allows you to define workload profile processing event-controlled and according to a schedule. IC-SchED simplifies significantly the planning and management of server capacity utilization. It enables an automated increase in ESX / XenServer capacity for maintenance purposes, for example. |

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