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Cloud computing for the enterprise, Part 3:Using WebSphere CloudBurst to create privateclouds
Dustin Amrhein, Staff Software Engineer, IBMRuth Willenborg(rewillen@us.ibm.com), Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM
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 Part 1of this article series discussed cloud computing in general, including cloud layersand the different cloud types, along with their benefits and drawbacks, and explained why thismovement is important for enterprise developers.Part 2looked at the public cloud and how you canuse IBM® WebSphere® sMash and IBM DB2® Express-C to deliver Web applications hosted on apublic cloud infrastructure. This article provides an introduction to IBM WebSphere CloudBurst™and IBM WebSphere Application Server Hypervisor Edition and discusses how these new offeringsbring the significant advantages of private cloud computing to WebSphere enterprise environments.This content is part of theIBM WebSphere Developer Technical Journal.
Date:
24 Jun 2009
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Intermediate
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0 (Add comments)Average rating (based on 3 votes)IntroductionData center cost is comprised of three main components: hardware, physical costs (such as power andcooling), and administrative management. Among the three, the administrative and management costcomponent accounts for a significant portion of the overall ongoing cost. As such, removing manualprocesses, errors, and repetition is a great way to reduce and control IT costs.The newIBM WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance, along withIBM WebSphere Application Server Hypervisor Edition, provides deployment and management functions to deploy WebSphereApplication Server environments in a fast and repeatable manner, significantly reducing theadministrative and management requirements typically associated with these activities. Additionally,by leveraging virtualization and cloud computing principles, WebSphere CloudBurst provides thecapability to efficiently use a shared resource pool -- a private cloud -- to reduce infrastructure costs.This article provides an introduction to WebSphere CloudBurst and WebSphere Application ServerHypervisor Edition and discusses how these new offerings bring the significant advantages of privatecloud computing to WebSphere enterprise environments.
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Private cloudsAs discussed inearlier installmentsof this article series, cloud computing solutions come in multipleforms: public, hybrid, and private. A cloud’s type is usually defined in terms of where the physicalresources and data reside. In the case of a private cloud, we are talking about a cloud that exists withinan enterprise firewall; all of the computing resources and services that make up the cloud areprotected by the firewall.Although a private cloud does not free you from the responsibility for procuring and maintainingcomputing resources, there are many reasons why enterprises choose private cloud solutions overpublic clouds:
Security and compliance regulations:
You might need more stringent control and oversightwith respect to how and where data is stored than is typically provided by a public cloudservice.
Capabilities that cannot be achieved in a public cloud:
You might require a very specificvendor technology, or you might need availability guarantees not achievable by public cloudusage.
Private cloud as financial property:
If you have massive existing data center investments, youmight prefer to optimize the use of those resources rather than pay for public cloud services.Even many companies without such cost investments often see price advantages to on-premisesolutions, as the flexibility of off-premise solutions could come at a premium (much like rentinga car for a year versus buying one).Private cloud solutions deliver many of the same benefits as their public counterparts, such as costreduction, business agility, and enhanced innovation. The main difference is that you maintain fullcontrol over -- and responsibility for -- the cloud.Introducing WebSphere CloudBurstWebSphere CloudBurst is a new appliance from IBM that includes hardware and software capabilitiesto create and manage on-premise private clouds. WebSphere CloudBurst provides the capability toconstruct, deploy, and maintain virtualized WebSphere Application Server configurations for anythingfrom single server deployments to more complex cluster deployments.
Figure 1. WebSphere CloudBurst
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As shown in Figure 1, WebSphere CloudBurst has three fundamental parts:The
appliance
: The actual WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance includes the hardware, themanagement application, and a set of pre-installed and pre-configured WebSphere ApplicationServer virtual images and patterns. All access to WebSphere CloudBurst is via supportedinterfaces, using the Web 2.0 User Interface, the full Command Line Interface (CLI), or RESTAPIs.The
cloud
: WebSphere CloudBurst supports a "bring your own cloud" model in whichhypervisors, network capabilities, and storage are provided for use by the appliance. The cloudis where the deployed WebSphere applications run; they do not run on the WebSphereCloudBurst Appliance.The
virtual systems
. WebSphere CloudBurst provides the tooling to customize theIBM-provided images and patterns to create a self-service catalog of your WebSphereapplications, and the capabilities to dispense WebSphere Application Server virtual systems intothe private cloud. The WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance includes intelligent placementcapabilities that enable the WebSphere Application Server patterns to be deployed to the cloudin such a way as to ensure efficient cloud resource usage and high availability characteristics.Once the patterns are deployed, WebSphere CloudBurst provides management and optimizationcapabilities, including mechanisms to apply fixes to the environment.The WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance addresses the ever increasing costs of server and middlewaremanagement and administration in several ways. WebSphere CloudBurst provides tools to buildconsistent, repeatable WebSphere Application Server deployments. These deployments are optimizedfor virtualized environments enabling you to reduce administrative costs and leverage the benefits of server consolidation that come from such environments. In addition, WebSphere CloudBurst appliesbest practice knowledge to shape and tune the configurations that it dispenses.WebSphere CloudBurst is also a part of several integration scenarios involving development and
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