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Customizing with WebSphere CloudBurst, Part 4:Extending virtual images in WebSphereCloudBurst
Skill Level: IntermediateDustin AmrheinStaff Software EngineerIBMKen Klingensmith(kakling@us.ibm.com) Client Technical ProfessionalIBMChris Ahl(chrisahl@us.ibm.com) Software EngineerIBM09 Dec 2009As an IBM® WebSphere® CloudBurst™ user, you create patterns and deploy theminto a private cloud. These patterns are complete representations of IBM WebSphereApplication Server environments and can include many different parts, such as adeployment manager, custom node, administrative agent, and more. Each of theseparts maps to a unique virtual machine, and that virtual machine is created from avirtual image. Specifically, the virtual machine is created from an IBM WebSphereApplication Server Hypervisor Edition virtual image, which contains the operatingsystem, WebSphere Application Server, and IBM HTTP Server, all pre-installed,pre-configured, and pre-tuned. However, this image does not contain othercustomizations or content that might be required for your specific environment. Thisarticle describes how easy it is to customize the WebSphere Application ServerHypervisor Edition virtual image to meet your application environment’s specificneeds.
Introduction
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This series of articles has been discussing customization capabilities of the IBMWebSphere CloudBurst Appliance.Part 1provided an overview of the differentcustomization capabilities of the appliance, and explained when and why you wouldemploy these capabilities.Part 2explored the use of editing patterns to createcustom WebSphere environments.Part 3further explored creating such customenvironments by discussing the role of script packages as a means to save theconfiguration of your WebSphere Application Server environment directly into thepattern.Parts 2 and 3 focused specifically on techniques that enable you to customize thetopology and configuration of your middleware layer via pattern editing. While thosecustomizations are important, customization of the operating system layer is alsooften required.In WebSphere CloudBurst, the operating system layer is contained within IBMWebSphere Application Server Hypervisor Edition. This is a new virtual imageoffering of WebSphere Application Server that includes an operating system,WebSphere Application Server binaries, WebSphere Application Server profiles, andan IBM HTTP Server all pre-installed, pre-configured, and pre-tuned, as shown inFigure 1. The virtual image is packaged according to the Open Virtualization Format(OVF) standard.
Figure 1. WebSphere Application Server Hypervisor Edition
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When you build a WebSphere CloudBurst pattern, you select a particular version ofWebSphere Application Server Hypervisor Edition on which that pattern will bebased. When the pattern is deployed, each of the parts in the pattern results in thecreation of a virtual machine containing the WebSphere Application Server nodetype represented by the part (Figure 2).
Figure 2. WebSphere CloudBurst pattern deployment
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