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Copper includes enterprise features like live-migration, virtual networks, and a centralized management console as standard components.
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CopperTM is a virtualization platform that enables you to tap the full performance potential of your IT infrastructure, whether large or small.
While other platforms virtualize individual computers, CopperTM uses live-cloning to support hundreds of virtualized distributed applications on a single deployment. Whats more, their footprints can scale up and down by dozens of virtual machines in real-time!
CopperTM can grow the footprint of a distributed application from one to dozens of live clone virtual machines across multiple servers, in mere seconds. When the additional performance is no longer needed, the application can rapidly shrink by destroying its clone virtual machines, allowing other applications to consume the released resources.
CopperTM enables your IT infrastructure to effortlessly and seamlessly shift server resources on demand, scaling the performance of different applications up and down in seconds, reacting instantly to your needs.
Redefining high-performance virtualization
Improve application performance
Copper's unparalleled virtual machine live-cloning enables applications running on your IT infrastructure to scale like never before. Instantly create clones of an application's virtual machine, in mere seconds expanding its footprint by dozens of auto-configured, running virtual machines.
Improve business performance
To perform well, business needs to make IT able to turn on a dime: to meet new deadlines, to react to changes in business priority, or to satisfy new client needs. Today, business performance relies on IT performance.
Shrink low-priority services and grow high-priority ones in seconds to instantly align your IT priorities with your business priorities. Use automated tools to re-allocate your IT resources between different services in seconds.
Improve infrastructure performance
New servers boot up and are auto-discovered by CopperTM. They are activated with a single command and are automatically able to host virtual machines. Scaling your infrastructure becomes a snap: plug in, turn on, and activate new servers in less than a minute.
Copper manages your infrastructure. New virtual machines are auto-created on servers automatically chosen based on resource availability, relieving you of the burden of micro-managing individual servers. Your infrastructure becomes an automated, integrated, well-oiled machine.
Improve people performance
Copper is built from the start to support multiple users running multiple virtualized, independent distributed applications. Use sophisticated access control mechanisms to strictly enforce security policy while still giving service administrators and group leaders full control over their tools.
Scale in seconds
Automated Scaling
CopperTM allows administrators to control and operate
entire services instead of individual virtual machines. A powerful
API allows administrators to automate application-scaling entirely,
reducing administration overhead to zero.
For example...
- A webserver virtual cluster runs a program monitoring system load. When load gets high, the program live-clones new webserver virtual machines to balance the service load.
- A grid-queueing virtual cluster runs a program managing a job queue. When jobs are added to the queue, the program creates clones to execute the jobs, destroying them when all jobs have finished.
As virtualization matures, it is becoming apparent that individually dealing with single virtual machines is an intractable problem. Infrastructure is no longer used to run just a small collection of single-server applications.
Today's infrastructure is used to run multiple distributed applications in tandem: groups of coordinated, collectively controlled services that operate across multiple servers. These applications are designed to scale.
Administer with ease
Automate Resource Management
The CopperTM virtual machine scheduler automatically chooses one or more appropriate servers on which to create new virtual machines using a centrally administered allocation policy. Administrators don't have to tediously analyze, and reserve resources on spread-out servers to support new virtual machines. The scheduler tracks resource usage on servers and automatically creates virtual machines only on the servers that can support them.
Easily Secure Services
Administrators can configure sophisticated, secure virtual networks that establish controlled communication paths between groups of virtual clusters, eliminating the overhead and complexity of configuring networking on individual virtual machines.
Quickly Expand Infrastructure
CopperTM automatically discovers newly booted servers and tallies their resources (cpus, memory, devices, ...) into its resource pool. The server's resources immediately become available to the Copper installation for allocation of virtual machines.
All physical servers are centrally administered and managed by the management stack, minimizing management overhead for infrastructure expansion.
Controlling entire services isn't just about scaling them easily, but also about configuring them and securing them. Administrative performance suffers due to the overhead of micro-managing server resources.
As your needs grow, scaling your infrastructure adds to the problem of an expansive resource pool that is a challenge to use efficiently.
CopperTM provides powerful mechanisms for making these steps fully automated, and high-performance, reducing administrator overhead by an order of magnitude. Copper is designed from the start to avoid VM Sprawl.
Improve productivity
Reprioritize IT Operations Instantly
With a couple of commands, an administrator can shrink a low-priority virtual cluster to minimize its resource usage, and grow a high-priority virtual cluster. It all happens in a matter of seconds, with CopperTM automatically handling the details, and with minimal administration overhead. The administrator is freed from spending hours of overhead time that other virtualization platforms demand for creating, configuring, and instantiating new VMs.
Efficiently Share IT Infrastructure
CopperTM supports multiple users out-of-the-box, organizing your virtualized services into different users and groups and allowing IT to efficiently delegate responsibility between top-level IT administrators and service administrators.
Top-level admins focus on ensuring that access control to infrastructure resources is properly configured, while service admins are given full flexibility to organize and use the resources they have been granted by creating, configuring, and booting virtual clusters.
CopperTM has advanced, high-performance features designed to help businesses react quickly to rapidly changing operational needs, new priorities, and fluctuating deadlines.
With CopperTM, changing the proritization of IT resources is a snap.
This means that IT becomes more responsive to the needs of your organization, better equipped to turn on a dime to meet requirements, and freed from menial administration tasks to allow more time for high-value operations.