N1 Provisioning Server Software

The N1 Provisioning Server software provides the infrastructure automation services required to manage and deploy logical server farms within an I-Fabric. The N1 Provisioning Server software manages the logical-to-physical mappings between a logical server farm and the physical resources that are assigned to the server farm.

The N1 Provisioning Server software contains the following software subsystems.

• Control plane database (CPDB), which is a persistent, central repository of data.

• The image server, if you have a local storage configuration, which manages images. The image server can be either an NFS or an FTP file server. The image server can run on an control plane server or on a stand-alone server.

• Monitoring software, which monitors the health and state of an I-Fabric and the logical server farms within.

The Control Center is the user interface to the control plane software from which you deploy and manage logical server farms. The Control Center is the primary farm management tool. See Chapter 2, Control Center Application Overview for an overview of the Control Center Management GUI.