Maintaining software releases across remote sites is complicated, costly, and error-prone. Cruz Software Lifecycle Orchestrator (SWLO) reduces the complexity with consolidated lifecycle management for bare metal, OS, PNF, VNF, VM, and applications.

Cruz SWLO features three primary components: software release management, deploy virtual functions, and network configuration.

Key Features

• Deploy BIOS and core operating software to physical and virtual environments; and manage updates as zero-touch processes, manual activities, multi-target deployments, scheduled tasks, and automated upgrades.
• Manage VNF/NS libraries and deployment records, and Virtual Infrastructure Managers
• Utilize extensive libraries of proven network device configuration processes, compliance validation, device backup, and recovery routines to manage physical and virtual network functions.
• Maintain centralized verified library of SW images all software instances of branch/remote sites, ensuring configuration consistency.
• Create target groups for bulk resource updates.
• Automate remote software upgrades.
• Confirm site current version and configuration.
• Site update resource prep and restoration processes.
• Automate rollback processes.
• Verify, backup, and restore software configurations.
• Centralized control of an individual, batched, and scheduled branch software updates through automated processes to eliminate technical intervention at the remote site.
• Automate the defined process for each location’s SW installation and present as one-touch upgrades.

Cruz Software Lifecycle Orchestrator, like all Cruz products, is seamlessly integrated with Cruz Operations Center (CruzOC) for a robust converged infrastructure management solution to configure, monitor, and manage all your devices and from a single system. The integration offers Day 2 management and centralized management for data center and network operations for multiple vendors and technologies.

Contact us to learn more about Cruz Software Lifecycle Orchestrator.