product description

Novell® ZENworks® Orchestrator is the brain behind data center systems management. Orchestrator automates operations so IT tasks are done consistently and according to policy, which saves you from working on repetitive, labor-intensive tasks. Orchestrator keeps data center resources, both physical and virtual, working together and focused on business priorities.

product licensing

For full functionality, ZENworks Orchestrator requires a license key, which can be purchased from Novell. Contact your Novell Sales Representative for more information.

If you want to evaluate the product before purchase, you can download a trial key, which controls the number of users and managed nodes you can configure. The trial key also sets an expiration date. To obtain a trial key, click Get Trial Key to download a text file, ZOS_Trial.txt which is the Trial Key. The ZOS_Trial.txt file is required by the ZENworks Orchestrator Server 1.3 configuration script.

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key product features

•  Resource Discovery
•  Workload Management
•  Policy Management for SLA
•  Auditing/Accounting
•  Software Compliance
•  Heterogeneous Virtual Machine (VM) Life Cycle Management
  

new in this release

•  High Availability
•  Server failover (if a server in a configured cluster goes down, another server goes online to take its place)
•  Virtual Machine restart after failure
•  Support for VM Builder/Warehouse installed on a server separate from the Orchestrator Server
•  Upgradability (from version 1.2 to 1.3 and later)
•  New Provisioning Adapters
•  VMWare* Virtual Center 2 (support for new versions of VMWare infrastructure)
•  SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10 SP2 with Xen* 3.2
•  Enhancements to the VMM Graphical Console:
•  VM Warehouse features a hierarchical view of the VM collection
•  Improvements to the VM Management Welcome Page
•  Addition of a new dialog to display the version number of all back-end services
•  Enhancements to the VM Creation Wizard (for example, the persistence of recent user selections)
•  New man page documentation for command line utilities
•  Improvements applied to server-agent communication
•  Support for Orchestrator Agent installed on SLES 10 SP2
•  Improvements in the Job Scheduler

access to download and installation instructions

For information about accessing and downloading ZENworks Orchestrator 1.3, see the Download and Installation Instructions page, or click the View link in the Download table at the top of this page.

NOTE: When you click the Download button, you are redirected to the ZENworks Orchestrator 1.3 download page. This is the location where you can download the software.