Multi-tenancy features in Matrix OE Matrix OE infrastructure orchestration includes multi-tenancy features for heterogeneous managed environments, as described in Enabling multi-tenancy. These environments support VM hosts running on blade or rack-mounted servers, physical blade servers, private cloud resources, and clusters. One such feature is support for VLAN network segmentation, which enhances isolation between Organizations in a multi-tenant environment. The software uses
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VLAN tags in network packets for data separation. This enables a single wire to carry network packets from separate network broadcast domains managed by switching technology in the data center infrastructure and in virtualization hypervisors such as ESX and Hyper-V. Matrix configures and manages VLAN segmentation with Operations Orchestration workflows, and uses the Network Automation utility for network configuration and management. The Service Provider administrator is able to use these services to only expose certain segments of the network to each Organization. This allows for the separation of VLANs between Organizations and secure network access within each Organization. Matrix also supports vSphere resource pooling, where a “capacity pool” specifies the capacity of the resource instead of VM hosts. This allows you to specify a pool of CPU and memory belonging to a host or a cluster, providing better resource sharing. Use of capacity pools offers additional security for multi-tenancy by shielding the actual VM location from Organizations, allowing you to share a cluster or host between different Organizations. For more information on CloudSystem Matrix multi-tenancy capabilities see the white paper, Multi-Tenancy in HP Matrix Operating Environment Infrastructure Orchestration at: