Management Software

ClearCube, market leader of centralized and desktop virtualization solutions, delivers end-to-end solutions that leverage its Sentral™ centralized management software to integrate powerful PC blade technology, cutting-edge user access devices and expert professional services to give organizations comprehensive, high-performance centralized computing and virtual desktop solutions. The ClearCube solution accommodates both power users who need the performance of a dedicated PC as well as knowledge or task workers that can be deployed within a VDI framework, delivering dramatic increases in availability, security and manageability.

ClearCube Sentral

Sentral™ VDI Management System is the industry's only complete, vendor-agnostic connection broker software to deploy and manage both physical and virtualized desktops for high-performance centralized desktop computing in heterogeneous enterprise IT environments. Sentral accommodates both power users who need the performance of a dedicated PC as well as knowledge or task workers that can be deployed within a VDI framework. Sentral offers IT administrators a single management framework to monitor and control their entire centralized infrastructure of computing assets and user types, dramatically reducing complexity, and ensuring the security, manageability and availability of VDI deployments.

Built on five generations of proven success within enterprise production environments, ClearCube's Sentral delivers the enterprise-class capabilities required for traditional centralized desktop computing as well as virtual desktop management in one solution, including: connection brokering, virtual machine management, thin client management, dynamic resource allocation, load balancing, active health and monitoring, disaster recovery and support for a wide variety of back-end hardware and user access devices. Sentral v5.6 is the only virtual desktop solution to manage both the physical and virtual resources within heterogeneous environments, providing cross-platform support and giving customers the flexibility to deploy the right solution for the right user type, utilize any back-end hardware, end-point user access device or virtualization technology for desktop virtualization.

The Most Comprehensive Solution for Centralized Computing & Virtual Desktop Deployment & Management
Why Sentral? | Benefits

Proven Technology: One of the most sophisticated connection brokering and virtual machine lifecycle management solutions in the industry, Sentral is proven technology that builds on five generations of usage in demanding production environments to provide unique connection brokering features, including switching, sparing, load balancing as well as support for 1:1 and 1:many connection models. Delivered through its Virtualization Module, Sentral's VM lifecycle management features VM pooling and automated hibernation. The Dynamic Allocation Module manages all of the connection brokering tasks through static or dynamic mappings of users and devices to blades and virtual machines based on availability and utilization.

A One Stop Shop: A single management console for virtual desktop and centralized computing management, Sentral provides a single management framework for centralized computing infrastructures. Beyond its connection broker and VM management functionality, Sentral provides system management features such as out-of-band management with support for vPro™ technology through Intel AMT, inventory, health, alerting, reporting, remote control, failover, software updates, thin client management, security and other features required in an enterprise environment. Sentral's dashboard keeps an IT manager informed of the status of their environment at a glance by monitoring and reporting on desktops, virtual machines, PC Blades or server hardware, thin clients, and hypervisor hosts, such as ESX servers. To allow the administrator deeper control, Sentral provides custom alerts, detailed audit reports, and user session logs to give advanced health and usage information.

A Complete Solution: Sentral provides a centralized desktop computing solution for all kinds of desktop users from power users needing access to a high quality, quad-monitor video experience, all the way down to task workers hosted on a server with 20 other virtualized users.

No Vendor Lock-down: Sentral provides cross-platform support for hardware from all leading vendors and also provides vendor-agnostic support for multiple virtualization technologies, ensuring the utmost flexibility for a heterogeneous IT environment requiring integration with existing technology investments.

PDF datasheet : Sentral