What is orcharhino?
orcharhino is a complete data centre management solution. It provides system lifecycle management through a single easy to use interface. In particular, orcharhino supports automated host deployment, configuration management, and patch management.
orcharhino automates most operational tasks, thus helping to increase efficiency, reduce costs, and increase the number of hosts that can be managed. At the click of a button, you can roll out additional hosts or apply the newest patch to hundreds of systems at once, therefore greatly increasing scalability and reducing time to market.
By supporting a wide range of established open source operating systems and enterprise solutions, orcharhino maintains maximum vendor independence and flexibility. It allows you to monitor and manage your servers in physical, virtual, and cloud-based environments while maintaining consistency on all of them.
Who benefits from orcharhino?
Due to its broad and flexible nature, any organization managing an IT infrastructure involving anything from a couple of hosts to a fully fledged data centre benefits from using orcharhino and its ecosystem.
orcharhino is vendor neutral:
- Multiple Linux distributions: orcharhino is used by customers running single or multiple Linux distributions including Alma Linux, Amazon Linux 2, CentOS, Debian, Oracle Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Rocky Linux, and Ubuntu. orcharhino can also deploy and configure Microsoft Windows hosts.
- Multiple configuration management solutions: orcharhino supports Ansible, Puppet, and Salt as established configuration management solutions, offering the full range of choices for customers new to these systems, or an easy transition for those already familiar with any of them.
- Multiple virtualization solutions: orcharhino supports a wide range ofvirtualization options.. You can run on-premise physical hosts, virtual machines, entirely cloud based systems, or any combination of all three.
What are the expected benefits?
- Reduced administrative costs through automation: Routine tasks can be automated, freeing system administrators for higher-value tasks and significantly increasing the number of systems that are easy to manage.
- Faster system settings: New servers can be rolled out at the push of a button and dismantled just as easily, so you can respond immediately to a change in your requirements and ensure availability when you need it most.
- Manage your own software: Easily distribute your own software across different lifecycle environments such as development, testing, and production, as well as different logical, physical, or virtual locations in your organization.
- Greater system consistency: Easily manage an organization wide infrastructure across multiple logical, physical, or virtual locations through a single interface. orcharhino’s centralized patch and configuration management helps you maintaining a consistent and healthy operating environment.
- Scalability: orcharhino helps you run anything from a hand full of hosts in a single location to a distributed system with thousands of machines.
- Greater system stability: orcharhino actively provides status reports on the health of hosts, configuration drifts, available security errata, and available updates. Using orcharhino, you can quickly apply security patches to all your hosts and ensure software comes from trusted sources.
- Enhanced security: Ensure that your IT infrastructure is protected from third party access and that your data and IT processes are secure. orcharhino supports advanced user management options including user groups, roles and permissions, LDAP authentication, and context based restrictions.
Why orcharhino? (Why ATIX?)
- Vendor independence: orcharhino supports multiple configuration management tools (Ansible, Puppet, and Salt) multiple virtualization options (Amazon EC2, Google GCE, libvirt, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager, oVirt, Proxmox, RHV, and VMware vSphere) and several Linux distributionen (AlmaLinux, Amazon Linux 2, CentOS, Debian, Oracle Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Rocky Linux and Ubuntu).
- Consulting and engineering: Our consultants will work with you to identify your individual needs and help you with all aspects of implementation. If needed, our engineers adapt or expand the software to facilitate integration with existing services.
- Training and support: ATIX relies on maximum transfer of know-how to its customers. We offer both professional support and training programs, which may be highly tailored to a customers’ individual needs.
- Simple subscription model: ATIX is a partner for companies that want to control the cost of IT infrastructure. Our subscription model is kept as simple as possible, depending only on the number of systems you want to manage via orcharhino . You subscribe for one orcharhino server instance plus packages of 50 managed hosts. In addition, we offer standard and premium support as well as a number of services aroundorcharhino.
How to start with orcharhino?
- orcharhino webinar: Ideal for a first overview is our monthly orcharhino webinar. In our 1-hour webinar you will get information about the functions and application possibilities of orcha rhino, as well as the advantages compared to other management systems.
- orcharhino Demo Download: By signing up for the download you will receive an email with the download link. You will receive a fully configured OVA that you can execute and test directly.
- orcharhino Starterpack: orcharhino contains a full version oforcharhino with up to 10 servers, which is ideal for in-depth testing. With the starter pack you get access to our support, as well as our feature request box. This will allow you to direct questions to our support and point out possible useful improvements to our development department. In addition, the 100 euro fee directly benefits the „Save the Rhino“ organization, which is dedicated to the protection of endangered animals.
- orcharhino Subscription: An orcharhino subscription always includes a server subscription and the number of systems to be managed (in increments of 50). Available with standard 9×5, as well as premium 24×7 support. Furthermore, an initial subscription includes a 5-day consulting package for the initial setup. In addition, we offer orcharhino Maintenance. This includes two updates per year, accompanied by our support. Unless otherwise agreed, the term of a subscription starts from the receipt of the order.
- orcharhino Services: Best Practice
Before the initial setup, we recommend an architecture workshop to integrate the existing infrastructure and your individual objectives into the setup concept. Furthermore, we offer the services of a qualified orcha rhino architect for the setup and initial configuration, as part of a 5-day consulting package. In order to ensure the functional reliability of updates, we also offer an accompanied update. Our support team is also available for possible operational support, up to and including operational takeover.
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