FastScale Stack Manager is a unified and fully automated platform for building, optimizing and managing all of the server software in your data center. Spanning virtual, physical and cloud-based infrastructure for both Windows and Linux environments, you can seamlessly adapt to changing needs with a central platform and a one-button solution for dynamic and optimized server builds.

• Manage virtual, physical and cloud from a single point
• Streamline software stacks up to 95% automatically
• Increase VM density & decrease memory requirements
• Remove vulnerable components & increase security

By combining ‘logical’ server methodologies with innovations for building lightweight software stacks with ‘just enough operating system’ (JeOS), you can respond on-the-fly to constantly changing business needs, workloads and hardware platforms while significantly reducing day-to-day operating complexity and cost. 

What is a logical server? It’s an abstracted server that can be deployed to virtual, physical or cloud-based infrastructure using a single software stack specification.  Logical servers allow you to plan, deploy, re-deploy, scale out and manage hybrid and dynamic environments without making changes to the software stack — you build once, deploy anywhere.

FastScale Stack Manager provides robust tools for defining and optimizing logical servers, including support for complex multi-tiered applications. The graphical Intelligent Stack Editor™ enables fine-grained configuration and customization as well as the ability to easily compare versions of server builds and identify deltas. Policy-based, hierarchical configuration settings can be applied to logical servers or groups of logical servers to customize network information, security policies, patch policies, environment variables, application configuration files, enable shell scripts and more.

With FastScale Virtual Manager, you automatically build and streamline server software environments on demand in seconds — without manual effort of any kind. Server software environments average 95% smaller than traditional golden images and can be provisioned to virtual or physical machines on the fly. Virtual Manager delivers complete automation from start to finish.

With patent-pending Application Blueprint™ technology, FastScale Stack Manager can automatically identify the precise operating system dependencies of your application and build a lightweight server with JeOS, on-demand. Configuring your logical server for JeOS results in a server build that is up to 95% smaller utilizing 75% or less system resources. And with fewer system services deployed, lightweight server builds are more secure by design. Application Blueprinting can also be used as an insurance policy against deploying legacy software stacks with missing file dependencies by comparing the server build to an Application Blueprint — missing files can be added with a simple mouse click.

With FastScale Stack Manager's Software Repository, you have centralized version management, tracking, traceability and reproducibility of all software assets including operating systems, applications, configuration files, patches, logical server specifications, permissions, roles, scripts, metadata and logs. At server build time, the required components are copied from the Software Repository according to the logical server definition — there's no wasted storage on redundant images.

With FastScale Stack Manager, server builds are created on-demand from logical server specifications and can be output in VMDK, AMI or disk image formats for deployment to VMware^® Infrastructure, the Amazon^® Elastic Compute Cloud or bare metal servers, as needed.

FastScale Stack Manager’s unified and automated platform for building, optimizing and managing server software.

The accelerating complexity and dynamic nature of next generation data centers requires integrated solutions that readily abstract logical from physical and deliver a scalable management platform to replace the collections of disparate tools, scripts and manual intervention commonly in use. FastScale Stack Manager was designed from the ground up to provide a unified and fully automated platform to build, optimize and manage cross-platform server deployments that span virtual, physical and cloud-based infrastructures.

FastScale Stack Manager Benefits
Maximize Performance	Build up to 95% smaller software stacks on-demand Run up to 3X more VMs without degrading performance Decrease memory and disk usage by up to 75%
Save Time	Build logical servers once with flexible output formats Right-size VMDK and AMI containers dynamically Include preconfigured tools automatically
Unify Infrastructure	Manage virtual, physical and cloud servers centrally Manage all software assets from a single point Enable full traceability and reproducibility

Whether you have deployed virtual or cloud-based infrastructure, require high-performing physical servers or have a combination of all three, FastScale Stack Manger delivers the agility, performance and scalable infrastructure required to deliver more computing with less resource, time and expense. By addressing not only how server software is deployed, but also how servers are built in the first place, FastScale Stack Manager delivers a low cost, high efficiency infrastructure for managing the operational reality of dynamic computing in complex, heterogeneous environments.

No other solution tackles this challenge at such a fundamental level – giving you the automated tools to build, optimize and manage software in an environment of real word complexity.

Available in a Workgroup edition for teams and a Workstation edition for individuals, please contact us to learn how FastScale Stack Manager may be just the right answer for your next generation data center.

FastScale Stack Manager — Build once, deploy anywhere.