• Embed Doc
  • Copy Link
  • Readcast
  • Collections
  • CommentGo Back
Download
 
Customizing with WebSphere CloudBurst, Part1: Creating highly customized private clouds
Dustin Amrhein, Staff Software Engineer, IBMRuth Willenborg(rewillen@us.ibm.com), Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM
Summary:
This is the first of several articles that looks at the customization features available inIBM® WebSphere® CloudBurst™ and how you can use them. Part 1 describes how you can createprivate WebSphere clouds, how and when to use the WebSphere CloudBurst customization fatures,and how those capabilities align with organizational responsibilities. This content is part of theIBMWebSphere Developer Technical Journal.
Date:
22 Jul 2009
Level:
Intermediate
Activity:
63 views
Comments:
0 (Add comments)Average rating (based on 0 votes)IntroductionThe concept of images that are installed and configured once and then copied and reused over andover again rapidly comes up against the reality that every executing server is unique. The uniquenessmight be as minor as a different password and IP address, or as major as different software andapplication requirements. To gain the efficiency promised by images, you must carefully considerwhat goes into the image and how many images to build.This article is an overview of the image customization capabilities in the IBM WebSphere CloudBurstAppliance, including image creation, image extension, script packages, pattern definition, and imagemaintainance. Subsequent articles in this series will provide indepth examples for each of thesetechniques.Creating customized private cloudsIBM’s new WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance helps you create, deploy, and manage WebSpherevirtual systems within a private cloud. The appliance ships with IBM WebSphere Application ServerHypervisor Edition, which is a virtual image packaging of WebSphere Application Server accordingto the Open Virtualization Format (OVF) standard. This packaging includes the operating system,WebSphere Application Server profiles and binaries, and IBM HTTP Server, all pre-installed andready to be deployed to a hypervisor.
Customizing with WebSphere CloudBurst, Part 1: Creating high...http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/techjournal/0...1 of 117/22/09 5:07 PM
 
Figure 1. WebSphere Application Server Hypervisor Edition
By building on top of WebSphere Application Server Hypervisor Edition, WebSphere CloudBurstdelivers an even higher level of value in the form of patterns. These patterns represent meaningfulWebSphere configurations and are also deployable, via WebSphere CloudBurst, to a set of hypervisorswithin a private cloud. Figure 2 depicts the WebSphere Cluster pattern that is shipped withWebSphere CloudBurst.
Figure 2. WebSphere CloudBurst Cluster pattern
Customizing with WebSphere CloudBurst, Part 1: Creating high...http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/techjournal/0...2 of 117/22/09 5:07 PM
 
Enterprises can realize out-of-the-box value with WebSphere CloudBurst with the pre-configuredvirtual images and patterns that are shipped with the appliance. However, many users (if not all) willrequire customized environments in their private clouds. Using WebSphere CloudBurst, you canprovide customization to all levels of your private WebSphere cloud, including the operating system,middleware, and application layers. These layers of customization correspond to the separation of responsibilities often seen in enterprises in which distinct teams are assigned to take care of operatingsystem environments, middleware environments, and applications. Along with these customizationcapabilities, WebSphere CloudBurst provides a user access model that maps to these differentcustomization paths, and, therefore, organizational roles.WebSphere CloudBurst provides these customization capabilities by enabling you to customize bothits virtual images and patterns. The type and frequency of the customizations will play a part in wherethe customization is performed.Figure 3 illustrates different customization needs and how those customizations can be achieved inWebSphere CloudBurst -- while preserving traditional organizational responsibilities. WhileWebSphere CloudBurst provides mechanisms to store and reuse customizations, it also recognizesthat some customizations -- virtual machine passwords, for example -- are unique to each deploymentand need to be performed each time.
Figure 3. Customization overview
Customizing with WebSphere CloudBurst, Part 1: Creating high...http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/techjournal/0...3 of 117/22/09 5:07 PM
of 00

Leave a Comment

You must be to leave a comment.
Submit
Characters: ...
You must be to leave a comment.
Submit
Characters: ...