IBM Workload Deployer Terminology 101

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IBM Workload DeployerTerminology 101

Dustin Amrhein (damrhei@us.ibm.com) @damrhein - WebSphere Technical Specialist

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Cloud Terminology

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Cloud groups• Cloud groups represent a pool of resource to which you

can deploy patterns

� Can be custom cloud groups (collection of defined hypervisors) or managed cloud groups (reference to VMControl or vCenter)

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Hypervisors• Hypervisors are hosts capable of hosting virtualized

environments created from pattern deployment

� Can be PowerVM, zVM, or VMware ESX hosts

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IP groups• IP groups contain subnet information and a range of IP

addresses that are assigned to deployed environments

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Virtual System Terminology

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Virtual system patterns• Virtual system patterns are a collection of image parts and script

packages that represent a middleware environment

� Treated as atomic units in IBM Workload Deployer

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IBM Hypervisor Edition images• IBM Hypervisor Edition images are virtual images that contain an

operating system and selected middleware components

� Various OS distributions and middleware products/versions

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Image parts• Image parts are the different types of nodes you can create using

an IBM Hypervisor Edition image

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Script packages• Script packages provide a way to customize the configuration of

IBM Hypervisor Edition image parts

� Definition includes description and invocation details

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Add-ons• Add-ons are specialized scripts that provide system-level

configuration and tuning

� Add-ons run before script packages in the deployment process

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Virtual system instances• Virtual system instances are created by deploying virtual system

patterns

� Virtual system instances contain one or more virtual machines

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Virtual Application Terminology

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Virtual application patterns• Virtual application patterns are a collection of platform resources

that constitute a complete application environment

� Serve to abstract complexities of middleware infrastructure by focusing on the business need

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Pattern types• Pattern types are collections of plug-ins that provide a specific

solution

� Pattern types are used to build virtual application patterns

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Cloud components• Cloud components represent a middleware service in a virtual

application pattern

Cloud components

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Policies• Policies represent how a middleware service is configured and

managed

Policies

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Links• Links describe the relationship between cloud components in a

virtual application pattern

Link

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Virtual application templates• Virtual application templates represent predefined components

and configuration used to deploy environments

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Reusable components• Reusable components are predefined cloud components that

can be used to build virtual application patterns

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Virtual application instances• Virtual application instances are created by deploying virtual

application patterns

� Virtual application instances provide workload-aware management

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MiscellaneousTerminology

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Emergency fixes• Emergency fixes are used to apply fixes and updates to virtual

system instances

� Fixes may be IBM provided or custom

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Shared services• Shared services are system components that provide runtime

services to virtual application instances

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Environment profiles• Environment profiles are used to group related resources and

provide more control over deployment configuration

� Enable fine-grained resource limit controls

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Other terms• Virtual appliances: An OVF file and related VMware virtual

disks that have been imported into IBM Workload Deployer

• Task queue: The list of running and pending tasks in IBM Workload Deployer

• Users: Defined users of the IBM Workload Deployer system

• User groups: Collections of defined users