Commander Capability Matrix
Commander supports Amazon Web Services™, Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Microsoft® Azure, Microsoft® Hyper-V SCVMM, and VMware® vCenter™. This topic provides information on the features that are supported for the following cloud accounts.
Private and Public Cloud Inventory Management
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Commander Feature |
Public Clouds |
Private Infrastructure |
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AWS |
GCP |
Azure |
SCVMM |
vCenter |
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Viewing private/public cloud infrastructure (cloud accounts, regions, datacenters, zones, etc.) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Viewing private/public cloud resources (instances, VMs, AMIs, templates, volumes, load balancers, databases, etc.) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Multi-tenant costing For public cloud, costing is based on a preconfigured, editable cost model that ships with Commander, and Commander can retrieve public cloud billing data. |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Custom attribute and tag enforcement Bi-directional tag synching is supported for AWS and Azure. Label import is supported for GCP. |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Reporting |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Provisioning
|
Commander Feature |
Public Clouds |
Private Infrastructure |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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AWS |
GCP |
Azure |
SCVMM |
vCenter |
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VM cloning and deployment |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Automated provisioning |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Network fencing |
No |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
|
Service catalog |
Yes |
Yes — with deployment configurations |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Service bundle deployment (VMware vApps, AWS CloudFormation templates, Azure Resource Manager templates, GCP deployment configurations) |
Yes |
Yes — fixed parameters only |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
|
Workflows |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Policy enforcement (expiry/decommissioning, tag compliance, etc.) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
New service requests |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Service change requests |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
VM sharing |
No |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
|
VM clone requests |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Resource customization |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Resource and cost quotas |
Yes |
Cost |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Self-Service and VM Management
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Commander Feature |
Public Clouds |
Private Infrastructure |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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AWS |
GCP |
Azure |
SCVMM |
vCenter |
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Service Portal access |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Assigning resource ownership |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Power commands |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Open VM console |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
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Remote VM access via RDP/VNC/SSH |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
VM snapshot management |
No |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
|
Media Library and connected media management |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
No |
Yes |
|
Configuration Management and Drift Analysis |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Kubernetes Support
|
Commander Feature |
Public Clouds |
Private Infrastructure |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
AWS |
GCP |
Azure |
SCVMM |
vCenter |
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Automated provisioning of new Kubernetes clusters |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Automated provisioning of managed Kubernetes services |
Yes (EKS) |
Yes (GKE) |
Yes (AKS) |
No |
Yes (PKS) |
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Linking of Kubernetes nodes to underlying infrastructure |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
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Automated provisioning of new containers to Kubernetes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
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Automated scanning of deployed Kubernetes clusters and applications for tag compliance and security issues |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
|
Ownership assignment for namespaces and their children |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
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Commander Feature |
Kubernetes |
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Discovery and inventory of Kubernetes clusters |
Yes |
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Linking of Kubernetes nodes to underlying infrastructure |
Yes |
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Automated scanning of deployed Kubernetes clusters and applications for tag compliance and security issues |
Yes |
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Automated provisioning of new containers to Kubernetes |
Yes |
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Ownership assignment for namespaces and their children |
Yes |
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Self-service management of resources |
Yes |
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Application/Service Delivery
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Commander Feature |
Public Clouds |
Private Infrastructure |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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AWS |
GCP |
Azure |
SCVMM |
vCenter |
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Multi-tier service definition |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Infrastructure as code (AWS CloudFormation templates, Azure ARM templates, GCP Deployment Configurations, HashiCorp Terraform templates) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Configuration Management (Chef, Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
PaaS |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
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REST API |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Capacity and Performance
|
Commander Feature |
Public Clouds |
Private Infrastructure |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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AWS |
GCP |
Azure |
SCVMM |
vCenter |
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VM performance |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Host capacity |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Cluster capacity |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Datastore capacity |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Configurable placement algorithm |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
Yes |
Yes |
|
IP pooling and IPAM For public cloud, through third-party integration |
Yes |
Future |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
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Resource reconfiguration For vCenter and SCVMM, you can reconfigure CPU, memory, storage, and network resources; vCenter Hot Plug also supported. For AWS, you can modify instance type and storage resources. For Azure, you can modify instance type, storage, and network resources. For GCP, you can modify the instance type. |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Rightsizing recommendations For public cloud, requires additional configuration |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Power schedule recommendations |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Bulk/pre-paid usage (Reserved Instance) recommendations |
Yes |
Future |
Future |
N/A |
N/A |
Note: Commander supports Hyper-V hosts managed by SCVMM and VMware hosts managed by vCenter. Commander doesn't support cross-over management, such as VMware hosts managed by SCVMM (or vice versa).