What is Nexus Infrastructure Server?
Nexus Infrastructure Server is a virtualization platform for running mission-critical applications and services. With automatic high-availability, enterprises can rest assured that essential services are always available even in the face of hardware failures.
How Does It Work?
Nexus Infrastructure Server provides a web-scale cloud solution for managing and sharing physical servers. The built-in hypervisor provides a virtualized machine environment for running any x86-based server operating system with software-defined controls for compute, networking and storage. The included Server Management System provides user and security policy management, life-cycle management of virtual machines, alerting and reporting services, and automation and control services that together deliver a complete cloud solution.
With Nexus Infrastructure Server, any enterprise can realize the full potential of cloud computing. Nexus provides turnkey deployment, a self-contained management systems, and powerful integration features, delivering simplicity of form and function that empowers IT administrators to deliver more value while enjoying deep cost savings for their business.
Compute – Nexus Server provides a rock-solid virtualization environment that enables organizations to create powerful multicore virtual machines and virtual machine clusters across hardware platforms.
Nexus can boost application performance by nearly 50 percent, with dynamic, automated, policy-based resource allocation. Nexus also helps to reduce power consumption by up to 55 percent through advanced power-management strategies and more efficient hardware utilization of the underlying server hardware systems.
Storage – By enabling administrators to defer storage purchases until they are really required, Nexus Server helps to reduce storage expenditures by up to 50 percent. Nexus
Networking – With built-in advanced software-defined network management, Nexus server helps system administrators to fully utilize current networking investments and ready for cloud environments.
Nexus Features
Web-Scale User Interface
Provides global search indexing, instant batch operations, scripting extensions zero-install web console, persistent view state, and multi-language interface. Full integrated web-based portal support for managing tens of VMs up to thousands of hosts, multiple data centers or users domains, via the same modern and user-friendly interface.
Integrated Storage Management
Nexus Infrastructure Server provides a comprehensive system for managing physical and logical storage resources for virtual machines, including direct attached storage (DAS), network attached storage (NAS), and storage area networks (SAN). Built-in cross-machine real-time backup support, and seamlessly integrated LUN management delivers a smooth and simple storage management experience.
Network Management
Nexus Infrastructure Server is built on an innovative software-defined network routing and load balancing system that simplifies deployment requirements and eliminates common bottlenecks to managing a cloud-based networking environment. Network isolation and assignment keeps virtual machines connected yet isolated for a secure application deployment environment. Always-on SSL keeps data on the wire secure from eavesdropping and tampering.
Virtual Machine Life-cycle Management
Nexus Infrastructure Server supports an extensive set of virtualized operating systems based on the x86 instruction set. This includes but is not limited to:
- Windows Server (NT, 2000, 2003, 2008, 2012)
- Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS, OpenSUSE, Fedora)
- Open Solaris (x86)
- Free BSD
- Android (x86)
Cluster Management
Nexus Infrastructure Server is built with a system-centric design. This means instead of managing each physical node separately, Nexus starts with a systems view across all physical resources. New physical nodes are discovered automatically and added to the cluster. Automatic provisioning and synchronization happens without administrator interaction. Resources are discovered and pooled together to deliver effortless scalability and control.
Template Management
Nexus supports a wide variety of virtual machine packaging and disk formats for easy migration between systems. Virtual machine templates can be configured with pre-booted machine state, enabling near-instant boot times and pre-started services for faster deployment and recovery. Native differencing disk support enables efficient disk resource utilization to help control storage costs.
Performance Management
Nexus comes with a unique performance tracking system that supports a birds-eye view of all performance counters and resource usage trends for the full lifetime of the server. Easy navigation and date-based searches enable effective diagnostics and trending estimates for better capacity planning.
High Availability
Nexus cluster management services automatically configures high-availability of system functions, real-time data backup and fast automatic failover in case of unexpected problems, delivering a dependable and always available system for managing the most mission-critical applications.
Alerts and Notifications
Nexus provides self-diagnostics and proactive self-healing technology to ensure the system is always functioning. Proactive alerts and built-in messaging and email notifications enables administrators to be notified of potential issues and resolve them before they affect the overall system health.
Automation
Nexus supports a comprehensive programmability layer with access to thousands of methods for managing all aspects of the system. Built on simple REST concepts, administrators can quickly leverage the powerful extensibility of the platform to develop automation of common tasks. The system comes with a built-in script console, web-based documentation, language-specific wrappers for JavaScript and Python and dozens of samples and extensions to help you develop your own personalized management system.
Nexus Benefits
Efficiency and Lower IT Cost
With integrated cluster management functions and virtual infrastructure management controls, Nexus helps to reduce capital and operating costs while increasing the efficiency and utilization of the existing hardware.
Agility and Control
Nexus helps you take control of your hybrid virtualization environment. Seamless integration with an integrated management portal and multiple features increase business agility and security while enabling IT administrators to maintain control of their datacenter resources.
Business Continuity
The innovative software-driven approach keeps your IT infrastructure running by automatically configuring high-availability and disaster recovery.
Scale without Limits
The breakthrough architecture of Nexus delivers all the benefits of limitless scale with plug-and-play simplicity and minimal costs.
Extensible Platform
With a full support of Representational state transfer (REST) API, Nexus provides an extensible platform for managing virtual infrastructure.