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Hybrid Cloud Management

and
Orchestration
The Complete Solution
Jamcracker, Inc.
4677 Old Ironsides Drive
Santa Clara
CA, USA 95054
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Purpose
Jamcracker Hybrid Cloud Management provides a unified
cloud management solution to integrate the disparate cloud
environments

Allows you to control your cloud resources from both Public

& Private cloud platforms with automation, orchestration,
policy enforcement and management tools

Helps IT to rein cloud sprawl while enterprises adopt cloud

services across the organization

Govern and manage cloud resources, set resource

thresholds and use policies to automatically terminate
resources
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Public Cloud Private Cloud

Amazon AWS OpenStack
Microsoft Azure VMWare vCenter
Google Cloud Platform
IBM Bluemix
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Features
Self Service Portal Multiple Clouds

p Multi-provider catalog with Application Stack templatesCloud Analytics Dashboard displaying data

p Instant access to a broad range of cloud infrastructure resources

p reduce the threat of shadow IT and cloud sprawl

Cloud Analytics

p Real Time Analytics Dashboard

p Cost Analytics Dashboard

p Cost Analytics Dashboard

p Tag Analytics Dashboard

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Features
Daily Consumption Report

p Shows usage data for each day

p Reports usage for all products and vendors

Custom Application Stack Template

p Define your own Stack Templates that your users will launch

p Define custom launch options restricting regions and sizes that users are allowed to select
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Features
VM Life Cycle Management

p Orchestration of cloud infrastructure services

p Notification on successful provisioning, as well as errors during provisioning

Policy Based Governance

p Optimize the use of cloud resources

p Track cloud usage and cost information and alerts administrators

p Control cloud costs

p Policy Execution Log that reports status of each policies executed

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Features
Role Based Access Control (RBAC)

p Restrict/permit users to access various functions

p Gain control over proper utilization of the cloud resources

Directory Server sync

p Microsoft Active Directory

p Track cloud usage and cost information and alerts administrators

p Control cloud costs

p Policy Execution Log that reports status of each policies executed

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Features
Showback Report

p Visibility into cloud resources used by the organization and departments

p Consolidated usage information by departments and business units

ANALYTICS &
REPORTING

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IaaS Resource Dashboard

Real Time Dashboard enables you to
get a snapshot of real-time cloud
usage and cost data of various
resources. It gives you instant
visibility into the resources that are
being used or are idle, ownership of
these resources and current cloud
cost associated with these resources.
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Recommendation Dashboard

The platform provides recommendations to optimize your cloud cost by identifying underutilized or unused
instances/images/snapshots/database/IPs. By downsizing or turning off instances that have been forgotten or
overlooked, ensures you dont end up paying for resources that are not in use.
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Executive Dashboard
Executive Dashboard tracks key
cloud trends such as costs and
resources in order to help customer
oversee all of their cloud costs
centrally.
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Cost Analytics Dashboard

Cost Analytics Dashboard provides a
comprehensive view of the cloud
cost trends and usage patterns by
projects, departments, products,
vendors, and business units.
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Tag Analytics Dashboard

Tag Analytics Dashboard helps you

organize your cloud resources based
on tags and provides the ability to
categorize them for billing purposes.
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EA Dashboard

EA dashboard is specifically designed

to manage Azure EA account. Azure
enterprise account (EA) can have
multiple departments, each
department can have multiple
accounts and each account can have
multiple subscriptions.

Jamcracker Hybrid Cloud

Management provides you a unique
EA dashboard to analyse cost based
on departments, accounts and
subscriptions.
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Widget Availability by Cloud Provider

We progressively implement different widgets for
every cloud service. However, some of the cloud
service providers do not provide all the information
required for a widget.

Click here or double click on the image to the left to

view widget availability by cloud provider matrix.
Daily Consumption Report
Shows usage data for each day
Reports usage for all products, all vendors
Data includes:
Vendors
Products/Services
Usage quantity
Cost of each IaaS resource consumed
Tags associated with the resources
Create Custom Reports

Administrators
can design
custom reports
from the Reports
tab.
Create Custom Reports

Following Reports can be created:

- Daily Consumption
- Order Information
Create Custom Reports

Choose from a
wide range of
fields for the
report
Showback Report

Showback report
is available
under the
Budgeting
functionality
Showback Report

Showback report
is available
under the
Budgeting
functionality
GOVERNANCE

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Governance
Policies - automated rules
Send alerts for usage
Shutdown/Restart VMs
Delete old Snapshots & Block Volumes

Budgeting
Allocate budgets to Business Units/Projects/Teams etc
View consumption based on Business Units/Projects/Teams
etc.
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Governance
Define Custom Templates
AppStacks Template allow controlling which Vendor they can be
launched into and what VM sizes are selectable by users.

AppStack Launch Approval

All provisioning requests go through an admin approval

Department Catalog
Define which AppStack templates can be launched by each
department
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Policies
The policy framework helps businesses create policies to optimize the use of cloud resources.

Default Policies
Provides out-of-box governance rules that immediately helps you control cloud costs.

Cloud Usage Alerts:

Tracks cloud usage and cost information and alerts administrators when the total usage for the account is greater than a certain value.

Tracks cloud usage and cost information and alerts administrators when the total usage for a vendor specific product is greater than a
certain value.

Prevent excess usage:

Allows scheduling of operational hours to automatically shutdown & start virtual machines.

Alerts administrators on volumes that have been disassociated from Virtual machines (standalone VMs) for more than a set number of days.

Optional rule to automatically delete volumes that have been disassociated from virtual machines (standalone VMs) for more than a set
number of days.

Logging:
Provides a Policy Execution Log that reports status of each policies executed with details of all the actions executed.
Default Policies

8 default policies
help you manage
your resources
better.

6 of them notify you

everyday of AWS &
Azure usage.
Custom Policies

Create your own

custom policies.
Budgeting

Define your own

Budget codes and
allocate amounts

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Budgeting

Free to define
budget by any unit
that matches your
organizations
budgeting practises.

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Budgeting

Budget codes need

to be selected while
launching AppStacks

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Budgeting

Budget codes are

asked for launching
AppStacks

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Define Custom Templates

Define your own

Stack Templates
that your users will
launch

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Define Custom Templates

Define your
own Stack
Templates that
your users will
launch

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Define Custom Templates

Define your
own Stack
Templates that
your users will
launch

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Define Custom Templates

Define custom
launch options
restricting
regions and
sizes that users
are allowed to
select

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AppStack Launch Approvals

Requests for all

Launches go
through an
administrator
approval

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AppStack Launch Approvals

Requests for all

Launches go
through an
administrator
approval

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AppStack Launch Approvals

Requests for all

Launches go
through an
administrator
approval

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Department Catalog

Configure
Department
specific catalog

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Department Catalog

Configure
Department
specific catalog

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Department Catalog

Configure
Department
specific catalog

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CENTRALIZED
CLOUD MANAGEMENT

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Catalog with multi-vendor VMs

Users get a catalog

of Application
Stacks and VM
templates that can
be launched into
multiple vendors.

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Detailed Description to facilitate decision making

Descriptions for the

stack are available
for users to
understand what it
provides before
they launch it.
Launch VMs or Application Stacks

Consistent
experience for all
stack templates.

Users select launch

options like VM size,
Region and network
related options.
Tag your resources when launching a Stack

Tag the resources

that are being
launched with
information that
you can use for
reporting

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Life Cycle Management

The solution supports end-to-end life cycle management of various cloud resources. It supports automated
provisioning and configuration of virtual machines, workload stacks, block storage, and network interfaces.

Consistent user experience when launching and managing resources irrespective of cloud vendor.

Orchestration of cloud infrastructure services.

Attach/Detach/Edit cloud resources and properties

Termination of cloud resources.

Notification on successful provisioning, as well as errors during provisioning.

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Lifecycle Actions for a VM

VMs deployed
in different
vendor
platforms
managed from
the same page.
Block Volumes
Provision additional volumes to VMs

Mount/Unmount from within IaaS Console

Manage volumes from console

All volumes actions - RBAC controlled

More types: high performance, Provisioned IOPS

Attach new volume

Attach Additional
Volumes to VMs
Attach new volume

Attach Existing
Volumes to VMs
Network Interfaces

Add additional NICs

Associate to Private Virtual Networks of your account

Obtain & associate Static Public IP addresses

Network Interfaces

Manage all NICs of a

VM from one tab
Network Interfaces

Custom config
additional Network
Interfaces
Volume Snapshots

Create
Snapshots of
volumes
VM Images

Create
Snapshots of
volumes
Import IaaS Resources

Import
resources from
your account
to the portal
to centrally
manage them
Import IaaS Resources

Imported
Resources are
easily
identifiable
Active Directory Synchronization

Using DSML/LDAP, the

platform can sync your
user logins from your
organizations Active
Directory

No need to manually
create individual logins
for all employees

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Multi-cloud Support
The following Public Cloud vendors are supported:

Amazon Web Services analytics & life-cycle management

Microsoft Azure (CSP) analytics & life-cycle management
Microsoft Azure (Pay As You Go) analytics & life-cycle management
Microsoft Azure (EA) analytics
Google Cloud analytics
IBM Bluemix (SoftLayer) analytics

The following Private Cloud vendors are supported:

OpenStack Mitaka analytics & life-cycle management
VMWare vCenter analytics & life-cycle management

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Thank you

Jamcracker, Inc.
Address: 4677 Old Ironsides Drive, Santa Clara, CA, USA 95054
Phone: +1 (408) 496-5500
Email: information@jamcracker.com