ScaleOut Management Pack™
Breakthrough Capabilities for Managing Distributed Data Grids
The ScaleOut Management Pack adds exciting new features that extend your ability to manage, analyze, and protect data stored in ScaleOut StateServer's distributed data grid. The Management Pack contains three components: an object browser for visually browsing and managing objects stored in the distributed data grid, a parallel backup and restore feature for archiving its contents in the file system, and access to comprehensive management APIs.
Together, the Management Pack's capabilities dramatically increase both the grid's visibility and manageability. Your data grid applications can benefit in numerous ways. For example, ecommerce applications can use the object browser to inspect customer shopping carts in real-time to track sales and manage inventory to optimize supply chain management. Likewise, financial applications can use the backup and restore utility to quickly and repeatedly take snapshots of data for later analysis of market trends, which is particularly useful for portfolio risk analysis and algorithmic trading scenarios.
ScaleOut Management Pack's features are described in more detail below.
Object Browser
The ScaleOut Object Browser lets you directly browse data stored within the distributed data grid. This gives developers and administrators a unique new means of accessing the contents of the data grid, including both metadata and serialized data for individual C/C++, Java, and .NET objects. In addition, the object browser can load .NET assemblies so that it can deserialize .NET objects and display properties/fields from custom classes, including items within ASP.NET session objects.
The object browser also can help you manage stored data. For example, you can browse the data grid to find specific objects by name or find all objects in a particular named cache within the grid that may be of interest. Objects can be sorted by name, size, or other attributes. The object browser also lets you clear individual objects, groups of objects, or the entire data grid.
Parallel Backup and Restore
The ScaleOut Parallel Backup and Restore Utility saves and restores all of the data within the data grid or a selected named cache to and from the file system. Backup/restore operations are allowed while the grid is active. This utility delivers extremely high performance, and its unique, fully parallel architecture ensures that backup/restore operations never become a bottleneck as the grid grows to handle large volumes of data. For maximum speed and scalability, backup/restore operations are performed in parallel on all grid servers.
Beyond just using this utility to archive grid data for disaster recovery, many additional uses are enabled by the ability to perform backups while the data grid is active. For example, snapshots of the grid's data can be captured at key times and saved for later analysis, and multiple snapshots can be taken over time to analyze trends.
Backup/restore operations are initiated and controlled from the ScaleOut Management Console. The console also reports on the status of an ongoing operation and automatically coordinates requests from multiple consoles. ScaleOut StateServer's command-line management program also can be used to manage backup and restore requests.
By default, backups are targeted to a unique, time-stamped set of files within ScaleOut StateServer's backup directory on each grid server. You also can specify a path name to a file share accessible by all grid servers, and all backup files automatically will be merged into that file directory instead. For maximum flexibility in managing backed up data, you can collect the backup files created in parallel on the grid servers and then restore them from a single file share.
Management APIs
Using the management APIs, you can integrate your own management tools with ScaleOut StateServer to report on the distributed data grid's status and activity or to perform management functions, such as joining or leaving grid hosts. Access to these APIs is available only with a license for the ScaleOut Management Pack.
Licensing
The ScaleOut Management Pack is included with ScaleOut StateServer Grid Computing Edition and is licensed as a separate optional product for other versions of ScaleOut StateServer and for ScaleOut SessionServer. To enable the management pack, just obtain a license key from ScaleOut Software.
See the Product Matrix for a quick comparison of the features included in each version of our products.
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