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Figure 2. Software Components
Cloud Control
In DCSWA, the administration portal is referred to as Cloud Control. Cloud
Control manages cloud operations, including locations (datacenters), pods, racks,
rack-mountable devices (load balancers, servers, console servers, storage
devices, switches, appliances and routers), the network (IPs, subnets, and virtual
IPs), SmartMachines (zones), and customers.
Cloud Control also includes reporting for various objects in the cloud
infrastructure. Most Cloud Control functions focus on inventory management,
IP assignment, and associations to other objects in the datacenter, that is,
managing servers and zones.