ClearCube Grid Center Admin Guide 4.11 - Manual (Page 31)

Grid Center 4.11 Administrator’s Guide Grid Center Clients • 25
Grid Center Clients
Grid Center 4.11 provides two types of clients:
• I/Port client
• Blade client
This chapter briefly discusses their interaction. Allocation on page 41 details how to
configure this interaction.
I/Port Client
Figure 12 I/Port Client Connection to Blade
Grid Center
Admin Console
End User
Blade
(Data Center)
I/Port client launches and
makes request to GC Console
for Blade information.
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I/Port connects to Blade
via RDP.
GC Console populates
appropriate Blade name
to which I/Port will connect.
The I/Port client is an application that resides on each I/Port being managed by the
Administration Console. When an I/Port client is launched, it polls the Administration
Console that controls the appropriate Blade to which the I/Port should connect. This
Blade identification is returned to the I/Port client. (See Figure 12.) The I/Port client
then presents a login dialog box in which users enter credentials for the Blade to
which they will connect, as shown in Figure 12.