Logical Server Farms

The control plane, fabric layer, and resource pool work together to dynamically create logical server farms within. Logical server farms are securely allocated from the resource pool and managed by N1 Provisioning Server software. N1 Provisioning Server software creates logical server farms from the resources available within the resource pool. Logical server farms are analogous to traditional, manually built, dedicated server farms except that you can create, grow, shrink, and delete them as data structures that reside within N1 Provisioning Server software.

Secure partitions enforced by N1 Provisioning Server software and methodologies enable you to exercise independent administrative control over each logical server farm. Although you can have administrative access on all devices within a logical server farm, you cannot view, access, or modify the devices or data associated with a different logical server farm unless you have the appropriate permission.

Figure 1–1 Logical Server Farms Provisioned Within the Resource Pool of an I-Fabric