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Collaboration Pod for Avaya Aura® Virtualized EnvironmentAvaya Pod Orchestration Suite
The Collaboration Pod for Avaya Aura Virtualized Environment is a pre-configured integrated solution composed of management, network, compute, and storage components packaged with everything you need to run Avaya Aura Communication Manager, Avaya Aura Application Enablement Services, and the Avaya Aura portfolio in a virtualized environment. The Pod Orchestration Suite enables management of the Collaboration Pod for Avaya Aura Virtualized Environment as a single entity from the application to the network layer.
The Avaya Pod Orchestration SuiteKey to reducing ongoing operations
costs in today’s complex computing
environment, the Avaya Pod
Orchestration Suite is a powerful set of
management tools for the Collaboration
Pod for Avaya Aura Virtualized
Environment. This tool set includes
single sign on, a consistent look and feel,
dashboards for specialized fault and
performance monitoring, and remote
physical views of the pod.
The Pod Orchestration Suite provides:
Real-time Health Monitoring
Dashboard: Enabling real-time health
monitoring through a GUI-based
dashboard representation of the pod,
provides status indicators showing the
health of each pod component. Allows
administrators to quickly view detailed
fault and performance data by drilling
down into element management tools.
Fault and Performance Management:
Offering a logical view of the
Collaboration Pod, enables network
discovery, topology visualization,
performance and fault management for
all pod elements including drill down to
detailed dashboards, trending
information, network discovery, key
resource, performance and health
indicators, and link-and-launch of
element managers for EMC Unisphere
and VMware vCenter.
Configuration Management: Making
configuration capabilities available to
network devices, Avaya Aura® virtual
appliances (via VMware vCenter and
Avaya Aura System Manager), and EMC
storage arrays (via EMC Unisphere),
provides intuitive workflows that make it
easy to drill down to the configuration
tool you need.
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From the applications to the networking layer, the Avaya Pod Orchestration Suite provides a centralized point for managing all components in the Collaboration Pod and for identifying and resolving issues quickly.
An umbrella management system, this suite delivers single sign on, a consistent look and feel, and includes these Avaya solution capabilities:
• Tighter integration of fault and performance monitoring
• Networking configuration
• Avaya Aura® management
• Pod element management
When integrated into the Pod Orchestration Suite, these capabilities provide layered dashboards for health, performance and analytics monitoring, pod component reporting, the ability to launch a variety of Avaya management applications plus link-and-launch into EMC and VMware applications.
Application Flow Analysis: Allows administrators to monitor, view and diagnose problems and resource consumption at
the application level.
vMotion Synchronous Switch and Storage Provisioning: Helps ensure that networking and storage resources are
provisioned appropriately by allowing alerts to be received from VMware vCenter when new VM activations, deletions
or moves occur.
Integration with VMware vCenter and EMC Unisphere: Enables link-and-launch capability to VMware vCenter and EMC
Unisphere to invoke vMotion, conduct configuration changes or to perform in-depth diagnostics.
Policy Management: Bundled into the Pod Orchestration Suite for network, employee, guest, business partner and
BYOD network access, this centralized policy engine performs context-based user and device network access
authentication and authorization and connects to all major directories such as Microsoft Active Directory, LDAP, and
RSA Authentication Server.
Component Summary
Avaya Pod Visualization Manager (PVM)
From this pictorial view of rack and solution components, drill down to
individual components and/or launch Avaya or 3rd-party managers
such as EMC Unisphere and VMware vCenter for component-level
monitoring, troubleshooting and configuration.
Avaya Visualization Performance and Fault Manager (VPFM)
For both voice and data in a multi-vendor network environment, use
VPFM to perform network discovery, topology visualization, and
performance and fault management. Leverage its layered dashboards for health monitoring, diagnostics, performance,
analytics and reporting (on Avaya and non-Avaya pod components) to drill down to individual components, or to launch
Avaya or 3rd-party managers (such as EMC Unisphere and VMware vCenter).
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Key to reducing
ongoing operations
costs in today’s
complex computing
environment, the
Avaya Pod
Orchestration Suite is
a powerful set of
management tools for
the Collaboration
Pod for Avaya Aura
Virtualized
Environment.
Avaya Configuration Orchestration Manager (COM) with Virtualization
Provisioning Service (VPS)
COM provides centralized configuration, provisioning and troubleshooting
enterprise wide for Avaya devices and technology including Avaya Ethernet
Routing Switches and Wireless LAN. COM includes configuration tools, device
configuration wizards, sub-managers for specific tasks and/or network
protocols (e.g., Bulk Configuration, VLANs, Routing), and off-box element
device management.
Supporting the next-generation virtualized data center, VPS delivers visibility,
validation, automation and reporting across applications, servers and network
devices and synchronizes management of the VMware virtualized server
environment with the Avaya network.
Avaya IP Flow Manager (IPFM)
Delivering application flow analysis, this tool enables administrators to monitor,
view and diagnose problems and resource consumption at the application level
in a multi-vendor network environment.
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About AvayaAvaya is a global provider of business collaboration and communications solutions, providing unified communications, contact centers, networking and related services to companies of all sizes around the world. For more information please visit www.avaya.com.
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Avaya Identity Engines (IDEngines)
A centralized policy engine, the Avaya Identity Engines Ignition Server performs
context-based user and device authentication and authorization for network
access. It connects to all major directories (Microsoft Active Directory, LDAP, and
RSA Authentication Server, for example) to provide seamless integration with the
corporate directory infrastructure. High Availability helps ensure uptime of the
Ignition Server for unified and reliable access control to wired and wireless
networks.