The Arcfra Enterprise Cloud Platform (AECP) is built from foundation, addon, tools, and platform software, offering a wide array of capabilities to support different implementation and management stages. The foundation and addon modules form the core, providing essential and cloud services. Additionally, to accommodate diverse deployment environments and management needs, supplementary tools and platform software, detailed in the table below, are available to ensure seamless infrastructure deployment for the AECP platform.
| Tool and platform software | Description | Installation environment and requirements |
|---|---|---|
| Arcfra VAAI-NAS Plugin | When Arcfra Cloud Operating System (ACOS) is deployed in a hyper-converged architecture with VMware ESXi, Arcfra VAAI-NAS Plugin provides support for features such as thick provisioning of virtual machine disks and fast cloning. | Arcfra VAAI-NAS Plugin is installed on the ESXi host and is used when deploying an ACOS cluster using VMware ESXi virtualization. |
| Observability | Once an observability service is associated with an ACOS cluster, it can provide features such as network traffic visualization, monitoring and alerting, and log management for the cluster and system services. | Observability is deployed as a virtual machine within an ACOS cluster, with Arcfra Virtualization Engine (AVE) as the virtualization platform. |
| Arcfra Operation Center (AOC) agent | After multiple AOC agents are installed, in scenarios such as cross-cluster cold migration, staged migration, or when distributing VM templates or ISO images from the content library, the system will automatically select the most suitable agent for data transfer. This eliminates the need for routing through the AOC virtual machine, thereby improving data transfer efficiency. | An AOC agent is deployed as a virtual machine within an ACOS cluster, with AVE as the virtualization platform. |
| Advanced monitoring | When ACOS is deployed in a hyper-converged form with VMware ESXi, advanced monitoring can provide comprehensive monitoring metrics and data collection on top of basic monitoring. It ensures that monitoring data is not deleted due to storage space limitations. | Advanced monitoring is deployed as a virtual machine in an ACOS cluster, with VMware ESXi as the virtualization platform. |
| Arcfra Migration Tool | Arcfra Migration Tool is primarily used to migrate virtual machines running on the VMware ESXi virtualization platform to ACOS clusters using AVE virtualization. | Arcfra Migration Tool can be installed on a virtual machine in either the source or target cluster. |
| Arcfra CloudMove | Arcfra CloudMove is designed for cross-platform migration of business hosts. It supports the online migration of virtual machines or physical servers from various source platforms to the AVE platform. | Arcfra CloudMove is installed on a virtual machine or physical machine that has network connectivity to both the source and target hosts involved in the migration. |
| Arcfra VM Initialization Tool | Arcfra VM Initialization Tool includes cloud-init and cloudbase-init, which are used to initialize settings for Linux and Windows virtual machines, respectively. Once the tool is installed, the virtual machine will automatically complete the initialization process upon first boot, without the need to manually configure information such as the hostname and IP address, thus improving configuration efficiency. | Arcfra VM Initialization Tool is installed on a virtual machine in an ACOS cluster, with AVE as the virtualization platform. |
| Arcfra VMTools | After Arcfra VMTools is installed on the virtual machine, on the AOC UI, you can view the guest operating system configuration information, modify details such as the hostname, IP address, and subnet mask, view file system partitions, and generate file system consistency snapshots for the virtual machine, thereby improving virtual machine management efficiency. | Arcfra VMTools is installed on a virtual machine in an ACOS cluster, with AVE as the virtualization platform. |
| Arcfra Upgrade Center | Arcfra Upgrade Center offers a one-stop upgrade solution, supporting operations such as upgrade pre-checks, cluster upgrades, and kernel upgrades. It minimizes human intervention, streamlines the process, and enhances the efficiency, reliability, and success rate of upgrades. | Arcfra Upgrade Center is included in the AOC software and does not require additional installation. |
