IBM Virtualization Engine Platform Version 2 Technical Presentation Guide
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Front cover IBM Virtualization Engine Platform Version 2 Technical Presentation Guide Describes the Virtualization Engine management collection components Describes the Virtual resources for all IBM ^ servers Provides slides with speaker notes Jim Cook Christian Matthys Takaki Kimachi EunYoung Ko Ernesto A Perez Edelgard Schittko Laurent Vanel ibm.com/redbooks International Technical Support Organization IBM Virtualization Engine Platform Version 2 Technical Presentation Guide March 2006 SG24-7112-00 Note: Before using this information and the product it supports, read the information in “Notices” on page vii. First Edition (March 2006) This edition applies to the IBM Virtualization Engine Version 2.1 © Copyright International Business Machines Corporation 2006. All rights reserved. Note to U.S. Government Users Restricted Rights -- Use, duplication or disclosure restricted by GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corp. Contents Notices . vii Trademarks . viii Preface . ix The team that wrote this redbook. .x Become a published author . xii Comments welcome. xii Chapter 1. Introduction to the Virtualization Engine platform . 1 1.1 The IBM Systems Agenda . 2 1.2 From Web services to the On Demand Operating Environment. 5 1.3 The On Demand Operating Environment architecture details. 10 1.4 Standards: from OGSI to WSDM . 13 1.5 The Virtualization Engine platform . 20 1.6 Virtual resources . 24 1.7 The Virtualization Engine management collection . 26 1.8 What is new with the Virtualization Engine Version 2 . 28 1.9 The Virtualization Engine Version 2 products offerings . 31 1.10 Virtualization: topology and terminology . 35 1.11 Management servers: the supported operating systems . 37 1.12 Managed servers: the supported operating systems . 38 Chapter 2. IBM Director 5.10 . 39 2.1 IBM Director 5.10 overview . 40 2.2 IBM Director 5.10 hardware components . 44 2.3 IBM Director 5.10 software components . 46 2.4 Overview of agent level functions . 49 2.4.1 IBM Director Console and managed objects. 52 2.4.2 IBM Director Console navigation views. 53 2.5 What is new in IBM Director 5.10: summary . 55 2.6 Comprehensive platform management with IBM Director. 57 2.7 Topology of IBM Director component and Virtualization Engine console . 61 2.8 IBM Director 5.10 cross-platform functions . 64 2.9 IBM Director extensions . 67 2.10 Discovery of cross-platform functions . 71 2.10.1 Discovery: automatic preferences. 73 2.10.2 Discovery preferences for naming templates . 74 2.11 Inventory cross-platform functions . 75 2.11.1 Inventory subtasks . 76 2.11.2 Inventory: custom collection, inventory monitors, and custom query . 78 2.11.3 Hardware Inventory query: i5/OS example . 79 2.12 Monitors and Hardware Status cross-platform functions. 81 2.13 Inventory monitors. 88 2.14 Hardware status . 89 2.15 Event action plans cross-platform functions . 91 Chapter 3. Resource Dependency Service . 99 3.1 Modeling the I/T Infrastructure with virtual resources . 100 3.2 A manageable resource . 103 © Copyright IBM Corp. 2006. All rights reserved. iii 3.2.1 Anatomy of a manageable resource . 103 3.2.2 Exploiting standards . 104 3.3 Resource Dependency Service overview . 109 3.4 Resource Dependency Service architecture. 110 3.5 Intelligent Device Discovery function . 113 3.6 Data Collectors function . 116 3.7 Resource Dependency Service repositories . 120 3.8 The Resource Modeling Framework . 122 3.9 Positioning Resource Dependency Service and the Common Configuration Management Database . 126 3.10 Analytics and correlation engines . 128 3.11 Topology services . 130 3.12 Runtime, packaging, installation, and configuration . 131 Chapter 4. The Virtualization Engine console . 135 4.1 Positioning the Virtualization Engine console . 136 4.2 Virtualization Engine console functions. 137 4.3 Virtualization Engine console architecture . 141 4.4 The welcome page . 143 4.5 The Health Center function . 149 4.6 Interacting with the environment . 159 4.7 The topology view . 164 4.8 The Virtualization Engine console under the hood . 171 4.9 Summary. 173 Chapter 5. Enterprise Workload Manager. 175 5.1 Enterprise Workload Manager overview . 176 5.2 Enterprise Workload Manager terminology. 178 5.3 ARM instrumentation. 180 5.3.1 ARM 4.0 API execution. 182 5.3.2 Correlator and hop . 183 5.3.3 ARM instrumented IBM products . 185 5.3.4 ARM enablement . 186 5.3.5 Non-ARM instrumented servers support. 186 5.4 Enterprise Workload Manager domain policy . 188 5.4.1 Domain policy and service policy . 189 5.4.2 Service class. ..