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MasterScope SigmaSystemCenter 3.6New Features and Enhancements
January 2018
NEC
Cloud Platform Division
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Introduction
▌This document provides an overview of new features and enhancements in MasterScope SigmaSystemCenter 3.6 released in April 2017.
Timeline function
Hybrid cloud management
Integrated server and storage management
vSAN compatible
Secure console
Platform support
Timeline Function
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Trace System Configuration Changes (Timeline)
Accurately traces system configuration change history such as virtual machine creation, migration, and automatic recovery (vSphere HA.)
Before SigmaSystemCenterIntroduction
After SigmaSystemCenter Introduction
Failure occurred! ! It’s automatically restored, but it is hard to determine the VM status at the time of failure and its impact
You can trace configuration and status before the failure. It’s easy to determine VM’s status at the time of failure, affected machines and operations.
Since this VM was originally stopped at the time of failure, there is no problem to leave it in stopped state.
These three virtual machines restarted on failure.
After restoration of HW, restore the original placement with one click.
Extracting any affected virtual machines from VMware's massive logs is hard work.
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I have a stopped VM, but I don’t know if it was originally stopped or failed to restart. . .
Is this excel inventory file updated?
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0:00 12:00 0:00 0:00 12:00 0:00
Before failure After failure
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Trace System Configuration Changes (Timeline)
Visualizes VM placement and state in the past, allowing restoration of VM placement at arbitrary time.
Timeline shows when and how virtual machines were placed.
Hybrid Cloud Management
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Hybrid Cloud Management
Allows centralized management of public cloud (NEC Cloud IaaS) environment in addition to on-premises environment
▌Link function
Power operation (start/stop/restart)
Status reference (running, stopped, suspended)
Configuration information reference (CPU/memory/virtual LAN)
Monitor result reference (monitoring abnormality event)
VM
vSphere
VM
Windows
VM
Hyper-V
VM
On-premises environment NEC Cloud IaaS
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Hybrid Cloud Management
Set the end point URL and account information.
Virtual machines on NECCI imported into SSC can be managed on SSC just like other machines.
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Hybrid Cloud Management
▌About License
The following licenses are required.
Virtual server management option
VM Host Socket License
▌Notes
Creating and deleting machines are not supported.
The service management function issues suspend request and suspend cancel request. You can not directly suspend or cancel suspend from operation from SSC. (When VM is not in use, you have to suspend VM service not to get charged.)
For Hybrid cloud management details, please contact your local NEC sales representative.
License Number of managed machines
VM Host Socket (9-16 core) license 10
Integrated Server and Storage Management
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Integrated Server and Storage Management
In addition to conventional iStorage logical fault, physical disk fault (RAID degeneracy) can be detected.
▌iStorage Monitoring Items
Disk array failure
• RANK failure
• Pool failure
• Capacity shortage
• Disk life
• RDR link failure
Storage pool
• Degeneracy due to physical disk failure
Disk volume failure
• Format failure
• Capacity shortage
• Replication failure
• Snapshot failure
Enhanced with SSC 3.6
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Integrated Server and Storage Management
Easy to identify the VMs running on the degraded storage pool
1. Detect degeneracy of pool
2. Check the affected virtual machine
Storage array
Storage pool
Logical volume
Virtualizationhost
Virtual machine
Business group
vSAN Support
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vSAN Support
Works along with VMware maintenance mode and vSAN data evacuation mode. vSAN related events can be confirmed on SSC.
Secure Console
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Support for VMware Console Proxy
▌Previously, to allow users to use the VM console, it was necessary for the users’ client terminals to have direct access to ESXi. (involving security concerns)
▌With the new proxy function, users can use the VM console without direct access to ESXi, which improves security.
Client
ESXi
Conventional
Client
ESXi
SSC 3.6
ProxyNo direct communication between clientand ESXi
Platform Support
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Platform Support
▌Platform Support
RHEL 6.8 KVM, RHEL 7.3 KVM support
RHEL 7.3 support
*The following platforms have already been supported with SSC 3.5 update 1
・ vSphere 6.5
・ Windows Server 2016
・ Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V