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Virtual Data Centres
VDC’s
One of the key new features we are exposing in FlexiScale 2.0 is the concept of a virtual data centre (or VDC for short). A VDC allows you to group a set of resources together in a logical way. Resources include:
- Servers
- Disks
- Images
- IP Addresses
- Snapshots
- Clones
- VLANs
- Virtual NICs
You can set your display to show you data from all VDCs, or just filter it to the one you are currently working with.
Below is a screenshot of a list of Servers across VDC’s (click on the screenshot to enlarge it).
Organising resources
For this release of FlexiScale, we’ve only enabled a portion of our VDC functionality. Currently, VDCs are mainly there to help you arrange resources in a logical way.This can be an enormous help when you have servers spread across staging, live & development architectures. You can create as many VDCs as you need, and you can move disks them between them if required.
Future Development
Soon we will release a whole raft of additional functionality around VDCs, including usage reporting on bandwidth, disk, CPU etc. on a per VDC basis, and best of all, the ability to start, stop, clone or delete an entire VDC – no matter how many servers are within it; and all in one click or API call!
Imagine being able to roll out an entirely new staging platform, straight from your development environment, with a complex configuration, spread across 20, 50, or 100 servers, in one click. Now that’s power!
As always, let us know what you think, we really appreciate feedback, good or bad – good is nicer to get, bad tends to be more useful to us in product development!
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