FabricServer Feature List

Key Features of FabricServer 2.x:

FEATURE	FUNCTION
Management and Monitoring of Applications
Integration with LDAP	Provides authorization and authentication services
User-Defined Roles	Control access to services and applications by defining an access control list for users
Auditing	Complete change tracking and reporting
Enterprise Console Integration Support	Provides SNMP integration support for HP OpenView, Tivoli TEC, CA Unicenter, BMC Performance Manager, and more
Web Services API	Manage FabricServer via industry standard Web Services
Operations Console	Web-based interface for IT and Operations team members to monitor and control FabricServer deployments
Session-based locking	Resource locking of FabricServer configuration safely allows multiple users to work on large-scale FabricServer deployments
Customizable Activation Events	The container startup and shutdown process is exposed through an API for cases when special handing is required by the user
Customizable Statistics	API responsible for providing statistical information about a running Domain or Container
Core FabricServer Capability – Scalability and Performance Management
Domain Lifecycle Events	Lifecycle methods for domains and containers are exposed through the API
Shared Infrastructure	Enable applications to run in a shared services model
Horizontal Scalability	Ability to scale to 1000 nodes/CPUs
Reporting Database	Provides application statistics, allocation, usage and chargeback metrics
Load balancer notification plug-in	Auto-update downstream systems based on existing or new applications being activated or deactivated
Remote engine logging, and monitoring	Logs engine events to a file
Built-in load balancer (optional)	Virtual gateway for accessing Web applications or Web Services
Scalability	Ability to scale to thousands of nodes
Core FabricServer Capability - Service Level Management
Policy-Based Service Level Management	Prioritize and schedule policy for optimal application capacity and footprint based on rules
Distributed Run-Time and Closed Loop Policy Engine	Provides real-time health and performance statistics on enterprise applications at run time
Data Caching Support	FabricServer supports the industry leading caching technologies for Data Caching
Support for Virtualization Technologies – integration with VMware	Enables provisioning of FabricServer managed applications into VMware virtual machines
Business calendaring for scheduling policies	Enhanced scheduling with multi-day policies and recurring intervals
Auto-failover	Resilient operation via secondary (failover) broker
Interoperability with GridServer	Engines work with both GridServer and FabricServer
Rapid Policy Building	Policy wizard allows an administrator to populate a policy with the domain settings and rules from other policies