Alcatel-Lucent VitalQIP 500 - Manual (Page 6)

 Alcatel-Lucent l VitalQIP Appliance Manager
Summary of Features and Benefits
PLATFORMS
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Integration with the market leading VitalQIP software
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Centralized appliance management data store to keep track of services and status of remote appliances
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Automated software upgrade capability with rollback options
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Highly secure communication between AMS and appliances with unique appliance key generation
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Logical grouping of appliances for ease of upgrades
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Software version history maintained per appliance in AMS
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Remote start/stop/initialize of services
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High availability DNS using heartbeat and virtual address mechanism
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Retrieval of log/config files from appliances
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Connect, configure and go model for appliance activation
SERVICES
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VitalQIP Enterprise Services with Sybase database -- provides appliance-based
IP Address Management
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Industry’s highest performance DHCP server – enabling rapid IP address
assignment for the delivery of robust IP services
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VitalQIP DNS server (BIND 9 based) – enabling rapid address resolution
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VitalQIP SNMP Service
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TFTP Service for file transfer services
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NTP Service for time synchronization among appliances
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VitalQIP Auto Discovery -- discovers network devices quickly and efficiently
SECURITY
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Security hardened version of Red Hat Linux OS
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Limited port access
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Unique secret key exchanged between centralized software and each appliance for authentication
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Authorized appliance access is granted by centralized AMS administrator
VitalQIP Appliance Performance – A Price Performance Leading Solution
Leases per second 6,455 3,258 1,000
Queries per second 93,850 43,225 9,000
AMM 5000:
NEBS compliant with
RAID 1 and dual
power supplies
AMM 1000:
Standard appliance
AMM 500:
Remote Appliance