The OpenSVC team provides

Software stack

Easy, efficient, scalable and low-cost datacenter management
Node agent: Free, Open Source
Web front-end: Private instance or SaaS

Consulting

OpenSVC Integration
OpenSVC features development on-demand
Unix systems administration
Audit
Disaster recovery planing

Support

Ticket based
Contract based
On site

Training

OpenSVC
Linux, Linux on SAN
Solaris, Zones
Source tracking and project management with Git

OpenSVC infrastructure functions

Clustering

Cross-platform
Easy to deploy and maintain
Virtualization drivers
Data replication drivers
Snapshot drivers
Open Source
Free

Disaster Recovery

Scenario designer
Mass actions
Servers and services selection by filter
Production to Recovery site data replication
Data replication split and establish

Automation

Per user action privileges
Mass actions
Schedule actions on services
Interact with ticketing system
Provisioning
Uniform control interface for heterogenous site resources

Monitoring

Per service availability ratio
Per service availability history
Live and deffered alarming on servers and services
Automatic performance metrics collect on servers
Interact with existing alarming scroller

Asset Management

All server information at a glance
Extensive filtering
Automatic collect on servers
Interact with existing asset manager
Obsolescence management

Configuration Management

Automatic packages and patches collect on servers
Automatic operating system configuration collect on servers

Compliance

Configuration rulesets designer
Assign rulesets to nodes based on criteria
Extensive reports on current compliance situation, trends and logs

Storage Management

Per project, per-array disk group quota
Disk provisioning assistant, quota aware
End-to-end disk inventory
Disk billing based on used/allocated quota
Quota settings and usage over time charts

Reporting

Site statistics
Performance plots: single and multi-node
Service availability ratio
Service availability history
Disaster recovery designer
Compliance rules designer
Compliance status and history
Monitoring station
Aggregated logs
Services and nodes configurations
Operating systems lifecycle

OpenSVC infrastructure layout

OpenSVC service topologies

OpenSVC compliance infrastructure layout

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News

A forms editor in the collector

2013-02-25 23:08:14

A forms editor has landed in the collector. It's primary usage is to split the compliance objects forms from the collector code base. As a result, compliance objects and their associated forms can be created by clients easily and without OpenSVC team involvement. The powerful forms description langage is also leveraged for other uses. One is a form-based service and node customization system, which from a form inputs generates a compliance rule automatically attached to a specific service or node. For example this system can be used to present a user with a weblogic deployment form, which from a bunch of question (port, username, ...) configures the compliance rules and ends up deploying the product. Forms inputs can also be fed to scripts, or be mailed to interested parties. A natural evolution for this forms subsystem is generic workflow management. Stay tuned.

Share resources

2013-02-25 21:47:39

OpenSVC now can handle NFS shares as service resources on HP-UX and Linux. This approach is more friendly than the previously suggested NFS app launchers. The users benefit from fine-grained error reporting and self reparation. For example, when a share is not exported to a specific target client, or exported with unexpected options, a warning is raised explaining the issue, and starting the share resource will re-export only for the affected client. The driver has been tested with hundreds of shares and proved to be fast and reliable.

Encapsulated services

2013-02-01 23:57:09

Now OpenSVC services handling at least one container resource can span inside the container. If so desired, the agent must be installed in the container, and at least one service resource must be tagged as 'encap'. In this case, the master service (the part handled by the hypervisor agent) takes care of synchronizing the service configuration into the container. The service configuration file is the same. The slave agent only handles the resources flagged 'encap'. This new feature permits powerful topologies like Oracle RAC cluster in zones, or failover slave service between active containers in a master flex. The nice part is that admins logged into the container can operate on the slave service as they would on any service. The master and slaves resource status are aggregated by the master service and reported to the collector from there.

Multi-container services

2013-02-01 23:52:08

OpenSVC services were limited to handle only one container per physical host, possibly all running if in flex mode. This limitation is no more. Now containers are proper resources in the service configuration file, each with a dedicated [container#n] section. So, beware of these configuration file changes while planing agent upgrades. Please refer to usr/share/doc/template.env file for details of new configuration parameters.

OpenSVC support for Clouds

2013-02-01 23:39:03

OpenSVC services can now handle cloud resources : virtual machines on OpenStack and Vcloud, and cloud disk volumes for Gandi cloud. This support enables many interesting service topologies : physical cluster in production with disaster recovery in a cloud, shared disk clustering between two cloud virtual machines, disaster recovery on a different cloud from the production, or a farm of virtual machines spanned across different clouds. These new drivers use Apache libcloud cloud login abstraction. They also support virtual machine provisioning features of the clouds API.

Veritas Cluster wrapper

2013-02-01 23:32:06

The agent OpenSVC is now capable of reporting and inventoring VCS service groups. This new wrapper complements the already existing ServiceGuard and Red Hat Cluster wrapper family. The target is to be able to describe coherently whole heterogeneous datacenters through the collector. The compliance rulesets and modulesets can be attached to such wrapped services, their resources accounted.

HP-UX SRP container driver

2012-11-19 20:09:30

A new container driver has landed in the OpenSVC agent. It drives HP-UX SRP start, stop, sync and provisioning. While working in this area, the HP-UX vg driver received support for LVM v2 and provisioning capability. SRP is a light-weight virtualization technology similar to Solaris zones, AIX WPARs, FreeBSD Jails, OpenVZ, LXC, etc. Very DRP-friendly, as file-based replication is easy and the network is setup by OpenSVC.

Backup index aggregation

2012-10-31 20:43:59

OpenSVC is now able to ship EMC Networker index to the collector. A new 'saves' view is dedicated to display the aggegated index with the usual powerful filtering capabilities. The collector also creates a 'save'-type check for each known nodes' filesystem, using the number of days since last backup as a value. Filesystem never backed-up inherit an arbitrary value of 1,000,000 days. The threshold system applies as usual, and 'save' checks crossing their thresholds cause alerts to be emitted to the dashboard. Aggregations and historization charting are coming soon.

btrfs send/recv driver merged

2012-09-07 17:05:52

A new data sync driver supporting the very efficient btrfs send and receive mecanism has been merged in the opensvc agent. Documentation and example are there. Once this btrfs feature has matured, this driver will be the most efficient software-only drp replication scheme for Linux, on par with the zfs send/recv scheme.

docs fr translation

2012-07-27 10:51:03

The docs.opensvc.com sphinx documentation is currently being translated in french. Being tracked with git and shared through git.opensvc.com, contributing is easy and welcome. A snapshot of the translated documentation is already available at http://docs.opensvc.com/fr/.

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