Bare Metal Orchestrator is an infrastructure automation solution that enables Communications Service Providers (CSPs) to rapidly provision, perform lifecycle management, and monitor their infrastructure.
Bare Metal Orchestrator provides different interfaces for end-to-end infrastructure automation, lifecycle management, and monitoring. Bare Metal Orchestrator works with the Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) and supports the following features:
- Amazon elastic compute cloud (Amazon EC2) support
- Deploys Bare Metal Orchestrator on an Amazon web services (AWS) Cloud on EC2 instances.
- Backup and restore
- Schedules and performs manual backups.
- Custom installation
- Adds optional custom Bare Metal Orchestrator installation using a graphical user interface launched through the CLI.
- DHCP support
- Manages the DHCP configuration.
- Discovering devices
- Discovers servers and switches. Collects inventory. You can also discover devices by scanning IP addresses.
- Drift detection
- Detects a server configuration mismatch (drift) before provisioning a server with a blueprint template applied.
- Factory reset
- Provides a way to restore a component to factory settings.
- Logging
- Gathers system logs and audit logs that you can export and view.
- Media management
- Specifies a switch or server media type for firmware, operating system, and license media.
- Metrics collection
- Provides metrics reports with BMC statistics for server health monitoring.
- Multitenancy
- Creates and manages multiple tenants.
- Operating system deployment
- Installs an operating system. BIOS and BMC attributes were added to support different operating systems.
- Power control
- Performs various actions on servers such as powering them on or off.
- Provisioning hardware
- Uses hardware profile templates to provision multiple servers. You can update firmware versions, and different attributes such as Basic Input Output System (BIOS), BMC, Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks Controller (RAID), and so on.
- Role-based access control
- Manages users, their assigned roles, and Bare Metal Orchestrator access. You can provide users with specific access and privileges that are allocated to them according to their assigned roles.
- Server lifecycle management
- Manages the lifecycle of servers and monitors the health of on-boarded servers.
- Site management
- Automates site and associated devices management.
- Switch lifecycle management
- Manages the lifecycle of Dell and Cisco switches. You can deploy an operating system and perform firmware updates.
- Stack deployment
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Deploy custom stacks using Bare Metal Orchestrator, including:
- VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG)—deploy the management, shared services, and workload clusters on a TCP stack.
- VMware Telco Cloud Platform (TCP) stack—deploy cloud-native and virtual network functions on 5G networks.
- Wind River Cloud Platform—deploy the stack and the server components of the cloud cluster that make up the Central Cloud site.
- Telemetry enablement
- Enables telemetry collection from Dell, HPE, and Supermicro servers. Configures telemetry attributes to collect telemetry data.
- User management
- Allows you to create and delete users.
- License management
- Allows you to upload, validate, activate, download, and describe a license.