Operating and managing systems on Application Units

As a rule an operating system of another vendor (Windows, Linux or Unix systems) runs on an Application Unit. The scope of the setting and display options thus depends on the operating system concerned. An Application Unit can be operated with a Native operating system or a hypervisor system. A hypervisor system permits the operation of VMs. These are displayed in the SE Manager and can be operated with it.

The following hypervisor systems can be configured: HyperV Windows Server, VMware vSphere, Oracle VM Server, Citrix XenServer.

Application Units are displayed in the tree structure as <unit> (AU...) or <unit> (DBU...).

If the add-on pack NUX is installed on at least one MU, the structure of the primary navigation underneath Hardware -> Units is extended: The main menu receives rack-specific substructures SE<se-index> AU<rack-index>xx corresponding to the name scheme of the AUs, under which the links to the individual AUs of the rack (with a corresponding submenu if necessary) can be found.

If an AU is only integrated at hardware level, its VMs are not enquired and are therefore not displayed.
For such an AU, only the basic system resp. Native-AU system is displayed.

The following description is divided into these sections:

• Operating a Native system
• Operating virtual machines
• Installing an operating system on an Application Unit