Chat and Support Tickets
New sections have been added to the Control Panel that allow users to access Arsys' Support service quicker and easier in order to resolve any questions or problems they may have.
Action Engine v1
First version of autoscaling, events and actions in CloudBuilder that lets you choose the server usage parameters, and trigger numerous actions, such as growth of the resources of a server or automatically clone a server.
This function allows a better capacity management, delegating to the ability of CloudBuilder to increase infrastructure performance when resources are needed. When needed, the infrastructure will grow to meet resource needs.
Redesigned Menus
The left sidebar menus have been redesigned to ease access to all features of CloudBuilder.
Platforms in CloudBuilder
It is incorporated into the Control Panel in CloudBuilder the ability to build web platforms and databases, managed by Arsys. These platforms have a section in CloudBuilder panel to manage the general configuration of databases or websites hosted on them.
This functionality allows to deployed architectures of front servers and databases so that you only need to deploy the contents inside without worrying about server maintenance, which will form part of CloudBuilder, or the operating system, managed by Arsys.
Virtual Appliances with Pre-Installed Software
With this improvement, you will be able to deploy a number of applications, both commercial and freeware, automatically on different virtual appliances.
This makes implementing business applications on dedicated hardware much quicker and more intuitive.
Once the virtual appliance with software has been deployed, the CloudBuilder administrator can access the servers and make any necessary changes on them.
Environments in CloudBuiler
With this enhancement you can distribute CloudBuilder elements into different environments, which can be associated to areas in the company or to specific projects. This way, all the technical and administrative management can be done either by setting different environments as groups or even the whole datacentre.
You can enable communication between environments, or shared networks, so that you can set separate projects in different environments to share elements of a common space (databases, storage, ...) or to share information between them.
More functionality on balancers
More tools incorporating new options in traffic balancing in CloudBuilder.
Among theese tools multiport-balancing options are incluided as well as installation of SSL security certificates at balancing level and other possibilities to control the availability of associated servers.
Increased Server Resources
Once this improvement has been incorporated, it will be possible to build even more powerful servers on the CloudBuilder platform.
The creation wizard for CloudBuilder Premium Servers and the automatic resizing feature will allow for up to 32 vCPU virtual machines to be set up from the Control Panel.
CloudBuilder Panel Usability Improvements
Thanks to all the contributions from CloudBuilder users, a new batch of improvements will be deployed to make usability more intuitive, making the management of virtual infrastructures via the Control Panel even easier and more efficient.
Improved server creation
The server creation wizard has been renewed to make the configuration and deployment of servers easier. The new model lets you choose between different versions of each Operating System and select the additional software (web services, databases, email, etc.) which will be installed automatically during deployment.
This makes implementing new servers much simpler and much more powerful.
CloudBuilder Actions Workflow
This improvement, part of a major development upgrade of the CloudBuilder management system, allows for personalised actions to be configured to respond to different types of events, and for workflows to be programmed to execute tasks such as auto scaling. Without leaving the Control Panel, you will be able to customise the entire installation and configuration of a group of servers, from the Operating System to the software installed.
Together with the Clusters feature, this improvement allows users to define in a more integrated way how servers should perform under peak demand.
Executive Dashboards in CloudBuilder
With this improvement, a customisable Dashboard is incorporated, enabling you to control at a glance the technical and administrative health status of the CloudBuilder panel.
Through a set of powerful widgets, the data provided by CloudBuilder can be displayed in a number of different views, from traffic light indicators reporting service levels and system loads, to graphs showing a specific environment or server's resource usage over time.
Servers in Cluster Mode for CloudBuilder
This long-term development allows for aggregates of machines to be managed automatically from the CloudBuilder Control Panel, resulting in a much easier management of Server Clusters.
With this functionality, tools such as auto scaling become much more powerful and flexible, resulting from a more intelligent allocation of resources such as RAM and vCPU. The OS system, however, must first be rebooted.
