Novell ZENworks Orchestrator
Features & Benefits
- Orchestrate your data center
- Let's take a look at the big picture. How do you get virtualization, high-performance computing and other advanced technologies working together for maximum value? Novell has a solution. It's called Novell ZENworks Orchestrator. More +
- Systems management
- Who directs all your management tools? It doesn't have to be you. Novell ZENworks Orchestrator is a new ZENworks product that serves as the brain behind data center systems management. Orchestrator keeps your physical and virtual resources working together and focused on your business priorities. When a problem arises, Orchestrator can automatically take action. For example, it can find available space on the network, configure a new virtual server, and have it up and running to perform whatever business-critical task is needed. More +
- Auto-distributed workloads
- Make all your resources pull their weight. Novell ZENworks Orchestrator keeps a careful eye on all your resources and their workloads. And it automatically distributes workloads across multiple devices so you get maximum performance from your available resources.
- Auditing and reporting
- Know exactly how your resources are being used. Novell ZENworks Orchestrator delivers an accurate accounting of how your resources are utilized and then manages internal invoicing for the use of those resources. It also features auditing, reporting and event logging for jobs and provisioning.
- Customized to your job definitions
- Even if you built it yourself, Orchestrator can manage it. Extensible job definitions provide ultimate flexibility for job and task definition, and Orchestrator supports both Python and XML-based job definitions. Because it is based on open standards, it's easy to develop new tools that plug right in.
- Gets smarter and smarter
- Orchestrator actually learns as it goes. By recognizing efficiencies and learning from them, Novell ZENworks Orchestrator gets even better with use. It intelligently distributes tasks to the resources best equipped to perform the work.
- Freedom of choice
- Orchestrator doesn't care what platforms you have in your environment. It works to manage your mixed environments—from disparate operating systems, to software applications to hardware devices.
Management Packs
The ZENworks Orchestrator Management Packs provide specific functionality that can be directed by the management intelligence you have defined within Orchestrator. Each Management Pack is basically a collection of jobs. The Management Packs snap into the Orchestrator and then the Orchestrator's giant brain runs and directs that collection of jobs to accomplish complex tasks in the most efficient way.
There are two Management Packs available today, and several more are under development.
ZENworks Virtual Machine Management
Helps you discover servers for virtual machine commissioning, discover off-line and online virtual machines, deploy, re-deploy and rollback virtual machines, and manage physical, virtual and storage compute nodes.
High-Performance Computing Management
Allows you to take advantage of idle and under-utilized computing resources anywhere in your system and put them to work.
News & Events
- 01 Novell to Acquire Data Center Management Leader PlateSpin
- 02 Read the Data Center Management Research Report
- 03 Read Press Release: Novell Delivers Industry's Most Comprehensive Systems Management Solution
- 04 Novell Helps Customers Transform Their Data Centers With New Management Solutions
- 05 Ride the Innovation Line. Join us for a series of 6 Web seminars including Manage, Discover, Orchestrate and more. Win a Garmin!
- 06 The Green Movement - Coming to a Data Center Near You
- 07 Read the IDC report: Novell Strengthens Endpoint Security Offierings with Acquisition of Senforce Technologies
- 08 Novell's Orchestrator, By Dan Kusnetzky
- 09 Read the blueprint for better management from the desktop to the data center whitepaper
- 10 Notes from Novell BrainShare 2007