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Category Consultant
Ephraim Baron
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Product Consultant
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Product Consultant
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Product Consultant
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Category
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Assessm...
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Maturity
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Based on ManageIQ, founded in 2006
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Founded in 2006, RightScale is one of the oldest CMP firms.
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Company founded in 2006. Shipping product for multiple years. Many large customers.
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Content
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Content Creator
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WhatMatrix / ManageIQ Community
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Community
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Embotics
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Overview
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Red Hat CloudForms simplifies IT, providing unified management and operations in a hybrid environment.
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RightScale Cloud Portfolio Management enables enterprises to accelerate delivery of applications
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Cloud Management Platform that enables Infrastructure-as-a-Service automation by integrating seamlessly with private, public and hybrid clouds
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Website
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Click on details (i) for more info
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Click on details (i) for more info
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Click on details (i) for more info
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Delivery
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Installation
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Scale-out VM. You can scale the infrastructure based on the size of your environment
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SaaS
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Single Virtual Machine or Multiple for HA
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Agentless or agentless operation
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agentless
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RightLinkTM is an agent that is installed on your RightScale-managed cloud instances.
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vCommander is agentless
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Database support
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Built-in database is PostgreSQL
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RightScale uses a mix of relational databases — notably MySQL — and NoSQL technology, in particular Cassandra.
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Microsoft SQL Server 2014, Microsoft SQL Server 2012, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2
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Administration
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Administrator accounts
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Unlimited
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Unlimited
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Unlimited
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User accounts
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Unlimited
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Unlimited
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Unlimited Active Directory and LDAP
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Pricing
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Pricing model
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Subscription: Per Managed Node / Per Public Cloud Instance
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RightScale is offered at flat rate based on total public cloud spend. Private cloud is free.
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Yearly subscription.
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Product...
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Vendor specific/agnostic
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Vendor-agnostic
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Vendor agnostic
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Vendor agnostic
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Services
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24/7 support
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Multiple support options available
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Silver Support including consultative support
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Support included in base cost, Premium Support available
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Professional services
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Available
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Professional services support is available
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Professional Services engagements are available.
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Virtualization/Private Cloud Support
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VMware vSphere
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Supported
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Supported
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Supported
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Microsoft Hyper-V
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Supported
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Supported
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Supported
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OpenStack
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Supported
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Supported
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Not currently supported (preview available)
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other
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oVirt
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Apache CloudStack
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NEW
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Public Cloud Support
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Amazon Web Services
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Supported
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Supported
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Supported
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CenturyLink Cloud
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Not supported
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Supported
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Not Supported
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Google Cloud Platform
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NEW
Community contet. Official support coming in 2016
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Supported
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Cost comparisons only
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IBM Bluemix Cloud
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Not supported
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Supported
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Cost comparisons only
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Microsoft Azure
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Supported
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Supported
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Supported
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Rackspace
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Not supported
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Supported
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Cost comparisons only
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other
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Cost modeling for Google Compute Engine, IBM SoftLayer
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Containers
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CoreOS
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Not fully compatible
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Scripted Support
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Docker
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Not supported
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Supported
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Scripted Support
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Kubernetes
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Supported
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Supported
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Not Supported
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Legacy/Brownfield Environments
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Automatic discovery of legacy VMs
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Supported
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vSphere-only
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Supported
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Management of legacy cloud VMs
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Supported
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Supported
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Management of legacy private VMs
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Supported
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vSphere-only
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Supported
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Import of OVA/OVF VM formats
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Platform-dependent
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Supports RightImage formats
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Not supported (native tools can be used)
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Migrati...
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Cloud-to-cloud migration
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Not supported
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Supported
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Supported
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Administration
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Multi-tenant support
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Supported
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Supported
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Supported
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Published API
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Supported
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Supported
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API published : click on details (i) for link
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IPMI
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Supported
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Not Supported
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Configuration Management
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Chef
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Not supported
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Supported
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Supported
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Puppet
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Supported through Red Hat Satellite integration
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Template available
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Supported
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Ansible
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NEW
Supported through Red Hat Ansible Tower integration
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Not directly supported
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Supported
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SaltStack
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Not supported
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Not directly supported
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Not supported
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Ability to patch managed systems
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NEW
Supported through Red Hat Satellite and Red Hat Ansible Tower integration
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Supported
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Supported using scripting
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Networking
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IPAM integration
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Supported
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BlueCat & Infoblox
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SDN Support
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Community-contributed
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Only OpenStack Juno are supported
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Network Fencing isolation (Vmware only)
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Public cloud networking
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Community-contributed
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Extensive AWS network support
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Supports operational views. Deployment limited to use of templates (eg cloudformations)
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User-Defined Actions
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Conditional Actions
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Supported
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Rightscale Alert system
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Supported
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Pre- and Post-Install Actions
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Supported
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Supported through "rightscripts"
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Supported
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Scheduled Actions
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Supported
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Supported
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Supported
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Orchestration & Workflow
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Native Workflow
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Supported
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Supported
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Supported
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HP Operations Orchestrations
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Achievable through APIs or dedicated connector
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Supported through plugins
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Supported via scripting framework
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VMware vRealize Orchestrator
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Achievable through APIs or dedicated connector
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vSphere integration only (through appliance)
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Supported via scripting framework
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Webhooks
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Achievable through APIs or dedicated connector
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Supported via scripting framework
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Third-Party Automation
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HP Server Automation
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Achievable through APIs or dedicated connector
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Supported through plugins
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Supported via scripting framework
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ServiceNow
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Supported
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Supported
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Supported
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CMDB integration
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Has native CMDB; third-party support requires integration
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Supported
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Supported
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User-Defined Propert...
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Automatic hostname creation
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Supported
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Supported
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Supported
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Configuration tags
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Supported
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Supported
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Supported
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Placement
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Best Execution Venue
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Possible using analysis methods
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Supported
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Supported
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Runtime policies
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Supported
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Supported
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Supported
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Provisi...
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Bare-metal provisioning
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In conjunction with Red Hat Satellite (Foreman)
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