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NetIQ Cloud Manager 2.0

System Requirements and Product Specifications

December 22, 2011

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Table of Contents

System Requirements ................................................................................................................................... 1

Minimum requirements .............................................................................................................................. 1

Recommended requirements .................................................................................................................... 1

Hypervisors ................................................................................................................................................... 1

Operating Systems for Cloud Workloads ...................................................................................................... 1

Clients ........................................................................................................................................................... 1

LDAP servers ................................................................................................................................................ 2

Authentication Methods for Cloud Users ...................................................................................................... 2

Standard Reports .......................................................................................................................................... 2

Default workflow ............................................................................................................................................ 2

Product roles ................................................................................................................................................. 3

Pricing and Billing .......................................................................................................................................... 3

Product integrations ...................................................................................................................................... 3

About NetIQ .................................................................................................................................................. 4

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System Requirements

Minimum requirements

• Cloud Manager Application Server: 40 GB disk space, 4 GB RAM, 2 Pentium-class CPU cores

• Cloud Manager Orchestration Server: 40 GB disk space, 4 GB RAM, 2 Pentium-class CPU cores

• Client Browser: Internet Explorer 9 or higher, Mozilla Firefox 7 or higher, 1024 x 768 display

resolution or higher

Recommended requirements

• Cloud Manager Application Server: 80 GB disk space, 6 GB RAM, 4 Pentium-class CPU cores

• Cloud Manager Orchestration Server: 80 GB disk space, 4 GB RAM, 4 Pentium-class CPU cores

• Client Browser: Internet Explorer 9 or higher, Mozilla Firefox 7 or higher, 1024 x 768 display

resolution or higher

Hypervisors

• VMware vSphere 4.1 & 5 (vCenter Server is required)

• KVM and Xen as part of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1

• Citrix XenServer 5.6 SP2

• Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 with Hyper-V

Operating Systems for Cloud Workloads

• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1

• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11



• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 latest update

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 latest update

• Windows Server 2008 R2

• Windows Server 2008

• Windows Server 2003 R2

• Windows Server 2003

Clients

• Web browsers: Firefox 7, Microsoft Internet Explorer 9

• iOS devices: iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad


LDAP servers

• Microsoft Active Directory

• Novell eDirectory

• Apache Directory Server

Authentication Methods for Cloud Users

• Simple LDAP server

• NetIQ Access Manager Single Sign-On

• NetIQ Cloud Security Service for multiple federated directories

• Mixed simple LDAP server and NetIQ Cloud Security Service setup

Standard Reports

• Business Service Cost Details

• Business Service Cost History

• Business Service Cost Summary

• Cloud Business Service Cost Details

• Organization Overview

• Resource Group Details

• Shared Storage Details

• Shared Storage Summary

• Zone Overview

Default workflow

The following default workflow is started any time an operation that introduces or changes cost is initiated,

including requests for new Business Services and change requests to existing Business Services. The

workflow can be customized to fit specific customer needs.


Product roles

• Cloud Administrator

• Build Administrator

• Catalog Manager

• Zone Administrator

• Organization Manager

• Sponsor

• Business Service Owner

• Business Group Viewer

Pricing and Billing

Costs can be applied to:

• Virtual CPU (monthly)

• GB of storage (monthly)

• MB of RAM (monthly)

• Virtual network (monthly)

• Service Level Objectives (monthly)

• Setup cost (one-off)

• License cost (monthly)

Billing reports are based per Organization:

• Business Service Cost Details

• Business Service Cost History

• Business Service Cost Summary

• Cloud Business Service Cost Details

Product integrations

• Out of the box integration with NetIQ Operations Center for operations performance monitoring

• Out of the box integration with NetIQ Sentinel for log and compliance management

• Out of the box integration with NetIQ Cloud Security Service for federation of multiple directories

for authentication

• REST API/SDK for custom third party integrations

• Call out mechanism linked to work-flow for custom third party integration

About NetIQ

NetIQ is an enterprise software company with relentless focus on customer success. Customers and

partners choose NetIQ to cost-effectively tackle information protection challenges and IT operations

complexities. Our portfolio of scalable, automated management solutions for Security & Compliance,

Identity & Access, and Performance & Availability and our practical, focused approach to solving IT

challenges help customers realize greater strategic value, demonstrable business improvement and cost

savings over alternative approaches.

For more information, visit NetIQ.com.

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