PAN Server Portability
Cloud with Confidence

Application mobility is made possible using a logical server definition (server profile) another of the fundamental building blocks of the PAN architecture powering PAN Manager software. The server definition describes an application’s CPU and memory requirements, software images, hardware and network addresses, Logical Unit Numbers (LUNs), WWNs, vNICs, and additional peripherals.

Once created, the server definition can be quickly instantiated on any available physical or virtual server within the PAN system. Because the underlying PAN foundation services eliminate all static resource bindings, the service definition enables an application service to retain logical access to all of its resources, regardless of where it runs, and become truly mobile.

By taking an integrated approach to defining and instantiating logical servers, the PAN architecture lets you quickly right-size application services to available processing resources, without the need to configure hardware, install software or overprovision servers. And, with the addition of automated PAN management services, applications remain available even in the event of a hardware failure, software exception or data center outage.