ORACLE FABRIC MANAGER

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1 ORACLE FABRIC MANAGER MANAGE CONNECTIVITY IN REAL TIME KEY BENEFITS Control connectivity across servers from a single screen. Instantly replicate connectivity configurations across a group of servers with I/O templates. View real-time statistics for both networks and storage, per virtual network interface card (vnic), virtual host bus adapter (vhba), and server. Provide separate control of network resources (server, network, and storage) to specific administrators. Simplify disaster recovery with single-point connectivity management across multiple sites. Oracle Fabric Manager makes server connectivity management intuitive and instantaneous. Its next-generation management framework capitalizes on the power and flexibility of virtual I/O provided by Oracle Fabric Interconnect to let you monitor and manage connectivity in real time. From a single interface, you can control connectivity on thousands of servers, identify connections by function, and create rapidly repeatable configurations with I/O templates. Designed to streamline server, storage, and network configuration tasks, Oracle Fabric Manager lets teams control critical resources via segregated management domains. Meeting Server Connectivity Management Challenges As your data centers grow, so do your server connectivity management challenges. Traditional host adapters, mezzanine cards, cables, and switches must be individually installed and configured, reducing data center agility as applications become locked to specific servers. With increasing complexity, even simple tasks become repetitious, error-prone projects. And downtime risk increases with more connections per server and more infrastructure components. How do you ensure that servers have the bandwidth and connectivity they need, when they need it? Oracle Fabric Manager, combined with Oracle Fabric Interconnects and the Oracle Fabric Monitor plug-in, eliminates the issues behind traditional server connectivity by allowing you to create, monitor, and manage network and storage connections across all your servers. From a single interface you can create and manage connectivity, monitor performance, and apply rapidly repeatable configurations to any number of servers. Powerful Visualization Tools Oracle Fabric Manager, with the Oracle Fabric Monitor plug-in, offers an array of visualization tools that let you monitor and control resources on specific servers, across your data center, and across the globe. Figure 1. Oracle Fabric Manager s browser-based interface is also available as an ipad application for mobile monitoring and administration.

2 Figure 2. With Oracle Fabric Manager, you can see bottlenecks, and identify critical usage trends at the server level. From a single screen, you can view connections, configuration settings, and performance statistics. User-configurable dashboards provide at-a-glance visibility into the parameters that matter most to you. Scalable Resource Management With traditional server connectivity, you manage specific resources consisting of cards, cables, and switches. This complexity limits flexibility and complicates growth. Oracle Fabric Manager adds powerful abstraction tools that make it just as easy to manage dozens or thousands of resources as it is to manage just one. You can modify network configurations across server groups via a single drag-and-drop operation. And you can manage connectivity as scalable channels rather than specific links, so infrastructure can grow seamlessly to meet expanding demand. Elements of Oracle Fabric Manager Two elements serve as the foundation for Oracle Fabric Manager: Resource clouds. In Oracle Fabric Manager, a cloud defines a storage or network destination, such as a production network or a storage area network (SAN) device. Connectivity templates. Templates allow you to characterize the connectivity required by specific server types. You define both the destinations (the network and storage clouds) and the functional aspects of the connections, such as required bandwidth and availability. You can apply templates to a server or group of servers to provision access to needed resources. Figure 3. With Oracle Fabric Manager and the Oracle Fabric Monitor plug-in, you can optimize resource loading and increase efficiency by monitoring real-time and historical performance data. 2

3 Role-Based Access Control Oracle Fabric Manager is designed to preserve functional management roles within the data center, allowing server, network, and storage managers to maintain full control over their specific domains. Each sees and administers familiar assets while gaining the power and flexibility afforded by resource virtualization. Visualization With traditional server connectivity, performance problems can be hard to detect and even harder to fix. With the Oracle Fabric Monitor plug-in, Oracle Fabric Manager remedies this problem by letting you monitor live performance on specific ports and on virtual resources. From a single console, you can view resources, connectivity, and configuration settings within a server or across the data center. You can instantly spot exactly where bandwidth is needed. And when bottlenecks arise, you have options to resolve issues nondisruptively in seconds. Figure 4. The topology view illustrates the physical connectivity between Oracle Fabric Interconnect and clouds. It can also be expanded to include servers. Performance Management When you need to ensure a great user experience or deliver bandwidth to meet a service-level agreement, Oracle Fabric Manager s quality of service (QoS) settings provide the granular, positive control you need. Configure committed and peak information rate settings on both servers and storage to meet application requirements. 3

4 Figure 5. The server view shows the relationship between servers and resource clouds. All connections shown are virtual and software-configurable. Feature Set The core and enterprise versions of Oracle Fabric Manager include a rich set of features. Core Version Topology view. Visualize the environment s physical and logical topology. Server grouping. Group servers and manage them as a single entity. I/O templates. Configure connectivity templates and rapidly deploy repeatable configurations across multiple servers. Network and storage clouds. Storage and network administrators define specific storage and network resources and standard policies such as QoS and virtual local area networks (VLANs) and even specific logical unit numbers (LUNs) as part of a resource cloud. Clouds can then be provisioned as part of I/O templates to simplify end-to-end I/O provisioning. QoS per virtual resource. Assign specific bandwidth per virtual network interface card (vnic) or virtual host bus adapter (vhba) to guarantee performance. Role-based access control. Assign user roles to manage specific sets of storage, network, and compute resources based on permissions, including integration with Microsoft s Active Director or the RADIUS networking protocol for remote authentication. Oracle Fabric Interconnect management. Manage and configure Oracle Fabric Interconnect hardware and software, including firmware upgrades, chassis management, and I/O module configuration. Enterprise Version QoS per virtual machine. Assign committed information rate (CIR) and peak information rate (PIR) values directly to virtual machines by assigning QoS to a specific media access control (MAC) address. Resource domains. Segregate ownership of resources by creating resource domains that include specific server, storage, and networking resources as a subset of a larger environment. Each resource domain can then be administered independently based on roles and domain assignments. Discovery subnets. Manage resources in multiple locations and across data centers by discovering and managing Oracle Fabric Interconnects across multiple independent subnets. 4

5 ORACLE VIRTUAL NETWORKING Oracle Virtual Networking revolutionizes data center economics by creating an agile, highly efficient infrastructure built on your choice of hardware and software. This open architecture lets you dynamically connect servers, networks, and storage. You create networks and connections entirely in software to enable secure, isolated services that support your business processes and priorities. With Oracle Virtual Networking, all traffic types, including Ethernet and FC, traverse a converged infrastructure, resulting in a simpler, more efficient, wire-once environment with flexible connectivity. Products in the Oracle Virtual Networking family include Oracle Fabric Interconnect Oracle Fabric Manager Oracle Fabric Monitor Oracle SDN Oracle Fabric Manager Features General Dashboard Topology Alarms Jobs Service Resource Manager Physical servers Server groups Group migration Connectivity templates Boot profiles Default gateways I/O templates Service Manager Performance monitor VMware integration XMS high availability Disaster recovery manager Infrastructure Manager Oracle Fabric Interconnects Discovery subnet Supported Operating Systems Windows 2003, SP2 Windows 2008, R2 RHEL 5u5-32 bit requires Java 1.6, 32 bit Network Cloud Manager Network clouds Link aggregation group (LAG) Network QoS, per vnic Network QoS, per MAC address Storage Cloud Manager Storage clouds SAN QoS LUN masking Storage targets I/O Directors I/O directors Discovery subnet Security Manager Resource domains User roles Domain manager Supported Browsers Internet Explorer 7 or newer Firefox 2.0 or newer Apple Safari 5.0 or newer Google Chrome 8.0 or newer Recommended Minimum System Configuration CPU: two cores, 2 GHz Memory capacity: 4 GB Disk capacity: 20 GB Contact Us For more information about Oracle Fabric Manager, visit oracle.com or call ORACLE1 to speak to an Oracle representative. Copyright 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is provided for information purposes only and the contents hereof are subject to change without notice. This document is not warranted to be error-free, nor subject to any other warranties or conditions, whether expressed orally or implied in law, including implied warranties and conditions of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. We specifically disclaim any liability with respect to this document and no contractual obligations are formed either directly or indirectly by this document. This document may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, for any purpose, without our prior written permission. Oracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. Intel and Intel Xeon are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation. All SPARC trademarks are used under license and are trademarks or registered trademarks of SPARC International, Inc. AMD, Opteron, the AMD logo, and the AMD Opteron logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices. UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group