Commander Capability Matrix

Commander supports the following public clouds:

  • Amazon Web Services™, Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, and Microsoft® Azure, Microsoft®.

It also supports:

  • Microsoft® Hyper-V and Azure Stack HCI VMM environments managed by System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM)
  • VMware® vCenter™
  • Terraform deployments

This topic provides information on the features that are supported for the following cloud accounts.

Commander Feature

AWS

GCP

Azure

Hyper-V

Azure Stack HCI

vCenter

Terraform

View private/public cloud infrastructure (cloud accounts, regions, datacenters, zones, etc.)

See details for AWS, Azure, and GCP.

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

View private/public cloud resources (instances, VMs, AMIs, templates, volumes, load balancers, databases, etc.)

See details for AWS, Azure, and GCP.

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

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

Yes

No

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

Yes

No

Reporting

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Commander Feature

AWS

GCP

Azure

Hyper-V

Azure Stack HCI

vCenter

Terraform

VM cloning and deployment

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

N/A

Automated provisioning

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Network fencing

No

No

No

No

No

Yes

N/A

Service catalog

Yes

Yes — with deployment configurations

Yes

Yes

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

No

Yes

N/A

Workflows

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Policy enforcement (expiry/decommissioning, tag compliance, etc.)

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

New service requests

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Service change requests

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

VM sharing

No

No

No

No

No

Yes

N/A

VM clone requests

No

No

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

N/A

Resource customization

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Resource and cost quotas

Yes

Cost

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Commander Feature

AWS

GCP

Azure

Hyper-V

Azure Stack HCI

vCenter

Terraform

Service Portal access

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Assigning resource ownership

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Power commands

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

N/A

Open VM console

No

No

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

N/A

Remote VM access via RDP/VNC/SSH

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

N/A

VM snapshot management

No

No

No

No

No

Yes

N/A

Media Library and connected media management

N/A

N/A

N/A

No

No

Yes

N/A

Configuration Management and Drift Analysis

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Commander Feature

AWS

GCP

Azure

Hyper-V

Azure Stack HCI

vCenter

Automated provisioning of new Kubernetes clusters

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Automated provisioning of managed Kubernetes services

Yes (EKS)

Yes (GKE)

Yes (AKS)

No

No

Yes (PKS)

Linking of Kubernetes nodes to underlying infrastructure

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

No

Yes

Automated provisioning of new containers to Kubernetes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

No

Yes

Automated scanning of deployed Kubernetes clusters and applications for tag compliance and security issues

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

No

Yes

Ownership assignment for namespaces and their children

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

No

Yes

Commander Feature

Available in Commander

 

Discovery and inventory of Kubernetes clusters

Yes

 

Linking of Kubernetes nodes to underlying infrastructure

Yes

 

Automated scanning of deployed Kubernetes clusters and applications for tag compliance and security issues

Yes

 

Automated provisioning of new containers to Kubernetes

Yes

 

Ownership assignment for namespaces and their children

Yes

 

Self-service management of resources

Yes

Commander Feature

AWS

GCP

Azure

Hyper-V

Azure Stack HCI

vCenter

Terraform

Multi-tier service definition

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Infrastructure as code (AWS CloudFormation templates, Azure ARM templates, GCP Deployment Configurations, HashiCorp Terraform templates)

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Configuration Management (Chef, Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack)

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

N/A

PaaS

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

No

No

Yes

Commander API

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Commander Feature

AWS

GCP

Azure

Hyper-V

Azure Stack HCI

vCenter

VM performance

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Host capacity

N/A

N/A

N/A

Yes

Yes

Yes

Cluster capacity

N/A

N/A

N/A

Yes

Yes

Yes

Datastore capacity

N/A

N/A

N/A

Yes

Yes

Yes

Configurable placement algorithm

N/A

N/A

N/A

No

Yes

Yes

IP pooling and IPAM

For public cloud, through third-party integration

Yes

Future

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

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

Yes

Rightsizing recommendations

For public cloud, requires additional configuration

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Power schedule recommendations

Yes

Yes

Yes

N/A

Yes

Yes

Bulk/pre-paid usage (Reserved Instance) recommendations

Yes

Future

Future

 

N/A

N/A

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).