Dell Cloud Manager
Overview
Dell Cloud Manager (formerly Enstratius) is a cloud infrastructure management solution that enables organizations to easily manage cloud resources and application deployments across private, public and hybrid clouds. Where cloud services software target the delivery of cloud as a service, Dell Cloud Manager is focused on the consumption of one or more cloud services through a single pane of glass management platform. Available as software-as-a-service (SaaS) or as on-premises software that enables you to control the cloud from within your own data centers, Dell Cloud Manager provides agility, governance, and choice for enterprises.
Dell Cloud Manager includes:
- Fine-grained role-based access controls
- Financial controls
- Self-service provisioning
- Abilitytocreatecustomservicecatalogsofcompletetechnologystacks
- Integration with leading configuration management tools including Chef and Puppet
- REST-based API for easy integration with backend operations systems and tools like billing, monitoring, and ticketing
We currently support Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Compute Engine, Joyent, ScaleMatrix, vSphere 5.1, OpenStack (RedHat 4, 5, and 6 and SUSE 4 and 5), CloudStack 4.4, and Virtustream.
For more details on Dell Cloud Manager, visit our Dell Cloud Manager website which includes information such as:
- Brief introductory video
- Product Overview
- Product Features
- Cloud Providers Supported
- Information Resources
Existing Users
For our existing Dell Cloud Manager users, here is information and links you may find useful:
- You can use the community Forum to ask questions or provide feedback to the Dell Cloud Manager team
- You can access the Getting Started Guide and Product Documentation
- There are guides available to guide users through some common Dell Cloud Manager tasks
- If you need to report a problem or check system status, there is a Support portal page
- Information on the Dell Cloud Manager Agent is available
- Mixcoatl is the Dell Cloud Manager API wrapper. There is Mixcoatl documentation available, along with a Mixcoatl repository.
- There is an Administrator's Guide available which guides users through installation and configuration tasks. (You can change the version of the document in the upper left corner pulldown to match the product release you are using)
- Blueprints are a new feature of the most recent version of Dell Cloud Manager. There is a Blueprint Designer Guide available which includes information and numerous examples.