On Demand Operating Environment: Managing the Infrastructure (Virtualization Engine Update)

This IBM Redbook (along with its companion volume, On Demand Operating Environment: Creating Business Flexibility, SG24-6633), provides an insight into the kind of operating environment required to support an On Demand Business.

It provides an overview of the architecture of an On Demand Operating Environment and describes in more detail the components that are required to manage the infrastructure.

To meet the business needs of being responsive, variable, focused, and resilient, an On Demand Operating Environment must be integrated, autonomic, virtualized, and open. Though these attributes are all interrelated, this redbook focuses on the automation and virtualization components as they enable efficient infrastructure management.

This redbook provides descriptions of several approaches that one can choose to start implementing pieces of an On Demand Operating Environment today. Which approach is right for the reader will depend on their specific business environment and their immediate needs.

Part 1. Overview
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Infrastructure management overview
Chapter 3. The IBM Virtualization Engine
Part 2. How to’s for managing the Infrastructure
Chapter 4. How to secure access and control of information, resources, and applications
Chapter 5. How to provide scalable and consistent management and control of operations for end-to-end business systems
Chapter 6. How to avoid system failures and take automated action to resolve problems
Chapter 7. How to protect systems from intrusions and threats using monitor and alert systems
Chapter 8. How to monitor systems to allow establishment of business SLAs and automate detection and remediation of violations
Chapter 9. How to reduce the time and cost to re-purpose IT resources to meet business requirements
Chapter 10. How to map IT resources used by various business processes of an end-to-end solution
Chapter 11. How to consolidate and simplify the IT infrastructure
Chapter 12. How to optimize utilization and pool resources across a heterogeneous environment
Chapter 13. How to provision system resources in order to meet business demands
Chapter 14. How to monitor end-to-end applications, their topology, and their resources
Part 3. Infrastructure management: Detailed scenarios
Chapter 15. How to secure access and control of information, resources, and applications
Chapter 16. How to provision system resources according to business demands
Chapter 17. How to balance workloads in the network
Chapter 18. How to consolidate, simplify, and optimize the storage IT infrastructure
Chapter 19. How to monitor using EWLM
Appendix A. Getting Started with the Virtualization Engine
Appendix B. Standards overview

• On demand Operating Environment: Creating Business Flexibility, SG24-6633-00
• IBM WebSphere Application Server V6.1 Security Handbook, SG24-6316-01
• Implementing the IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller V4.3, SG24-6423-06

Publish Date
03 June 2005

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Author(s)

Christian Matthys spent more than 20 years at IBM as a System Engineer, working with large mainframe-oriented customers. He spent three years as an ITSO project leader on assignment in Poughkeepsie, NY. In 2000 he joined the EMEA Design Center for On Demand Business, working with customers' projects to make use of the leading edge technologies, in particular the Autonomic Computing technologies. He was part of the launching team of the Start Your Engines workshops to promote the IBM Virtualization Engine. He works as an ITSO project leader based in the PSSC. He is a certified Consulting IBM IT Specialist.

• Christian Matthys

Paola Bari is an Advisory Programmer at the International Technical Support Organization, Poughkeepsie Center. She has 22 years of experience as a systems programmer in OS/390, z/OS. and Parallel Sysplex, including several years of experience in WebSphere MQ and WebSphere Application Server.

• Paola Bari

Emmanuel Lieurain engaged in studies of Artificial Intelligence and Multi-Agents Systems in 1998. He holds a Master's degree gained by working on distributed simulation written in Java. Over 2 years, he has taught many courses for IBM Learning Services in a Business Partner company. He started working for IBM in 2001, as a Java developer and a WebSphere Specialist. As a member of the Design Center for On Demand Business, he participates in architecture design sessions, proof of concepts, and porting. He is also involved in pSeries and multiplatform benchmarks for tuning and optimizing WebSphere Environments. In 2004, Emmanuel was involved in the Autonomic Computing initiative. He is now promoting the IBM Virtualization Engine through technical workshops in a program named Start Your Engines, of which he is the EMEA technical leader.

• Emmanuel Lieurain

Dominique Salomon has been with IBM for 6 years and has 15 years of experience on UNIX, High Availability, and Storage domains. He is currently part of the PSSC TotalStorage team as an education leader. He has specialized in AIX and storage virtualization products such as SAN Volume Controller (SVC) and SAN File System (SFS). Dominique has also a strong background in complex High Availability and Storage solutions industrialization processes.

• Dominique Salomon

Lynn Winkelbauer is a System Engineer for IBM, Poughkeepsie. She has 21 years of experience in the zSeries area, working in performance, Parallel Sysplex, and e-business on demand. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Business Administration. Her areas of expertise include Linux for zSeries, CICS Transaction Server, WebSphere Portal Server, IBM Virtualization Engine and performance analysis.

• Lynn Winkelbauer

Bart Jacob is a Senior Consulting IT Specialist in the IBM International Technical Support Organization, Austin Center. He has 23 years of experience providing technical support across a variety of IBM products and technologies, including communications, object-oriented software development, and systems management. He has over 10 years of experience at the ITSO, where he has been writing IBM Redbooks and creating and teaching workshops around the world on a variety of topics. He holds a Master's degree in Numerical Analysis from Syracuse University.

• Bart Jacob

Surrey Mui is an Advisory IT Specialist at IBM Global Services, Hong Kong. She has over 10 years of experience in the Information Technology industry. Before joining IGS-HK in August 2003, she was a member of the Advanced Customer Engineering team working in the Tivoli Security Business Unit in Australia (part of the IBM Software Group). Her area of expertise is in providing architecture and integration solutions for customers using the Tivoli Access Manager product suite. This includes building specialized development modules for customers based on the Access Manager product suite. Surrey was a member of the DASCOM team when they were acquired by IBM. Surrey holds a degree in Business Computing from Griffith University, Australia.

• Surrey Mui

Jatinder Pannu is a Senior Consulting Client IT Architect in IBM US. He has over twenty years of experience in the IT industry, and has worked for IBM for nineteen years planning requirements and designing systems with customers. He holds a Master's Degree in Computer Science from Syracuse University and an MBA from Duke University. His areas of expertise include designing e-business systems.

• Jatinder Pannu

Sungsim Park is a Consulting IT Specialist and Solution Assurance manager in Technical Sales Support in IBM Korea. She has over 19 years of experience working on iSeries, e-business applications and patterns, and Linux. She has taught several e-business on demand classes to IBM employees and Business Partners in Korea.

• Sungsim Park

Hugues Raguet is an IT Architect in e-business solutions Technical Sales Support at IBM France. He has 9 years of experience in the IT industry. He holds a degree in electronic engineering from the ENSEEIHT University in Toulouse. His areas of expertise include the design of e-business solutions.

• Hugues Raguet

Jack Schneider is a Senior Consulting IT Architect in IBM US. He joined IBM in 1987 and has a consulting background with over 25 years of experience in architecting, designing, and implementing leading edge technology solutions to address customer's complex business needs.

• Jack Schneider

Laurent Vanel is a System Architect in IBM France. He started as an IT specialist in the pSeries brand in 1990. His IBM experience included a 3-year assignment at the Austin ITSO. In his current position as a System Architect, Laurent is technically responsible for the infrastructure proposed to a selected set of large customers.

• Laurent Vanel

ISBN

0738491241

IBM Form Number
SG24-6634-01

Number of pages
388