Enterprise campus networks require flexibility and security allowing BYO devices at scale. To meet business expectations, today’s management solutions must control these multi-technology solutions with minimal in-person support.
Cruz Campus Orchestrator is the premier platform enabling Enterprise Campus customers to deploy open networking platforms with the same ease of management as a traditional stacked environment. Dorado offers and supports the best-of-breed, most cost-effective hardware platforms vertically integrated within Cruz Campus Orchestrator, requiring minimal training in deploying Greenfield or migrating in a Brownfield environment. Dorado offers a single point of contact for sales and support, streamlining assistance across its extensive hardware and software portfolio. Cruz Campus Orchestrator is a powerful product for Day0 / Day1+ management of converging infrastructures and network operations.
- Orchestrate Access, Aggregation and Core Elements – Allows the user to create virtual stacked environments for Closets and Distribution Frames easily connecting them to Core Network.
- Maintain Software Function Library – Onboard, maintain, and automate access to software image library that supports the element lifecycle.
- Create/Schedule Groups Actions – Associate and schedule actions against defined groups of devices across multiple Distribution Frames and Core Network.
- Day 2 Monitoring and Automation – Monitor across the edge solution and automate corrective processes. For instance, upon a software update, automatically initiate monitoring and support new capabilities.
- Maintain Software Compliance – Integrated tools to discover, backup, monitor, and validate software versions and configurations against corporate standards.
- Bare Metal Software Management – Manage the initial deployments of BIOS, Operating System, Hypervisor, and designated virtual function software, for un-staged edge installs or as required.
- Validate Software Dependencies – Automate and/or manually create software version and configuration dependencies to support automated software updates.
- Manage Roll-back Scenarios – Roll-back to restore element to a good known state if deviation is detected.
- Create Action Workflows – Multi-step processes to support complex software deployments and dependencies.
Single Pane-of-glass -- Networking and Beyond
The Cruz Campus Orchestrator offers a single-pane-of-glass for comprehensive security, compliance, health, performance, and software lifecycle orchestration. Built on the foundation of CruzOC, Dorado’s multi-vendor/technology management platform, you can break vendor lock-in and invest in the best solution for your campus needs. In a single solution, IT managers can view and manage diverse environments of multiple technologies – physical/virtual/compute/network – from multiple vendors supported by Dorado.
For example, Cruz Campus Orchestrator, you can manage image onboarding, version management, dependency policies, compliance validation, backup and restore, instantiation and deployment, planning and scheduling for site and multi-site upgrades -- all from a single console and for all your multi-vendor campus hardware and software assets:
- Bare Metal (BIOS)
- Network OS (Variations of SONiC, Cisco IOS, Dell OS10 etc.,)
- Compute OS (Linux, MS)
- Wireless AP (Aruba, EdgeCore)
- Hypervisor (KVM, ESXi, HyperV)
- Orchestrators (vCenter, Openstack)
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