On demand Operating Environment : managing the infrastructure (virtualization engine update) / [Bart Jacob ... et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jacob, Bart.

International Business Machines Corporation. International Technical Support Organization.

Series:

IBM redbooks.

IBM redbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer software--Management.

Computer software.

Business--Computer programs.

Business.

Electronic commerce.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 364 p. : ill.

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Austin, TX : IBM, International Technical Support Organization, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Front cover

Contents

Figures

Notices

Trademarks

Preface

The team that wrote this redbook

Become a published author

Comments welcome

Summary of changes

June 2005, Second Edition

Part 1 Overview

Chapter 1. Introduction

1.1 Getting to On Demand Business

1.2 Infrastructure to support an On Demand Business

1.3 Capabilities

1.3.1 Integration capabilities

1.3.2 Infrastructure management capabilities

1.4 On Demand Operating Environment architecture

1.5 Summary

Chapter 2. Infrastructure management overview

2.1 Business drivers

2.2 Framework for infrastructure management

2.3 Automation

2.3.1 Business Service Management

2.3.2 Policy-based Orchestration

2.3.3 Availability

2.3.4 Security

2.3.5 Optimization

2.3.6 Provisioning

2.4 Virtualization

2.4.1 The value of virtualization

2.4.2 Server virtualization

2.4.3 Storage virtualization

2.4.4 Network virtualization

2.4.5 Distributed systems

2.4.6 The IBM Virtualization Engine

Chapter 3. The IBM Virtualization Engine

3.1 Overview of the IBM Virtualization Engine

3.2 Systems technologies

3.2.1 Systems technologies for the zSeries family

3.2.2 Systems technologies integrated into the pSeries

3.2.3 Systems technologies integrated into the iSeries

3.2.4 Systems technologies integrated into xSeries and BladeCenter

3.3 Systems services

3.3.1 Suite for Servers

3.3.2 Suite for Storage

3.3.3 System services summary

3.4 Summary

Part 2 How to's for managing the Infrastructure

Chapter 4. How to secure access and control of information, resources, and applications

4.1 Vision

4.1.1 Web Services security components

4.1.2 Hardware and software security mechanisms

4.1.3 Glimpse of the future

4.2 How to get started today.

Chapter 5. How to provide scalable and consistent management and control of operations for end-to-end business systems

5.1 Vision

5.1.1 The role of standards

5.1.2 Orchestration and provisioning

5.1.3 The Service Oriented Architecture model

5.1.4 Automation

5.2 How to get started today

5.2.1 Enterprise Workload Management component

5.2.2 IBM Tivoli Business Systems Manager component

5.2.3 Virtualization Engine Console component

5.2.4 IBM Director Multiplatform component

5.2.5 IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console component

5.2.6 IBM Tivoli Monitoring components

5.2.7 IBM Tivoli Intelligent ThinkDynamic Orchestrator component

5.2.8 The storage components

5.2.9 The Electronic Service Agent component

5.2.10 The automation environment

5.3 Key products to start with

Chapter 6. How to avoid system failures and take automated action to resolve problems

6.1 Vision

6.2 How to get started today

6.2.1 Hardware solutions

6.2.2 Software and services solutions

6.3 Key products to start with

Chapter 7. How to protect systems from intrusions and threats using monitor and alert systems

7.1 Vision

7.2 How to get started today

7.2.1 The IBM Integrated Security Solution for Cisco Networks

7.2.2 The IBM Tivoli Security Management environment

7.2.3 z/OS environment solutions

7.3 Key products to start with

Chapter 8. How to monitor systems to allow establishment of business SLAs and automate detection and remediation of violations

8.1 Vision

8.2 How to get started today

8.2.1 The IBM Tivoli Business Service Management solution

8.3 Key products to start with

Chapter 9. How to reduce the time and cost to re-purpose IT resources to meet business requirements

9.1 Vision

9.1.1 Architecture approach: the MAPE Loop

9.1.2 Optimizing existing resources.

9.1.3 Storage approach

9.2 How to get started today

9.2.1 The MAPE Loop implementation

9.2.2 The role of the grid

9.2.3 Storage implementations

9.3 Key products to start with

Chapter 10. How to map IT resources used by various business processes of an end-to-end solution

10.1 Vision

10.2 How to get started today

10.2.1 Understand the usage of data

10.2.2 Understand the usage of specific components

10.2.3 Sample scenario

10.3 Key products to start with

Chapter 11. How to consolidate and simplify the IT infrastructure

11.1 Vision

11.2 How to get started today

11.2.1 zSeries implementation example

11.2.2 Storage implementation example

11.2.3 BladeCenter implementation example

11.3 Key products to start with

Chapter 12. How to optimize utilization and pool resources across a heterogeneous environment

12.1 Vision

12.1.1 Open Grid Services Architecture

12.1.2 Workload management

12.2 How to get started today

12.2.1 The zSeries example

12.2.2 Examples of LPAR

12.2.3 The grid benefit

12.2.4 Mixing partitioning and grid capabilities

12.2.5 Infrastructure management tools

12.2.6 Storage focus

12.3 Key products to start with

Chapter 13. How to provision system resources in order to meet business demands

13.1 Vision

13.2 How to get started today

Chapter 14. How to monitor end-to-end applications, their topology, and their resources

14.1 Vision

14.2 How to get started today

14.2.1 IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Transaction Performance

14.2.2 Enterprise Workload Manager

14.3 Key products to start with

Part 3 Infrastructure management: Detailed scenarios

Chapter 15. How to secure access and control of information, resources, and applications

15.1 Introduction

15.2 General strategy

15.3 Solution components

15.3.1 Identity management.

15.3.2 Privacy management

15.3.3 Security management console

15.3.4 Data protection

15.4 Scenario

15.4.1 Business context

15.4.2 Current environment

15.4.3 Business objectives

15.4.4 Technical objectives

15.4.5 Solution approach

15.5 Product positioning

15.5.1 Identity management

15.5.2 Privacy Control Management

15.6 Linkages

15.7 Glimpse of the future

15.8 Summary

Chapter 16. How to provision system resources according to business demands

16.1 Introduction

16.2 General strategy

16.3 Solution components

16.4 Scenario

16.4.1 Current environment

16.4.2 Business objectives

16.4.3 Technical objectives

16.4.4 Solution approach

16.4.5 Benefits and summary

16.5 Product positioning

16.5.1 Self-configuring IBM ^

16.5.2 Self-configuring IBM TotalStorage

16.5.3 Hypervisors and workload managers

16.5.4 IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager

16.5.5 IBM Tivoli Intelligent ThinkDynamic Orchestrator

16.6 Linkages

16.7 Glimpse of the future

16.8 Summary

Chapter 17. How to balance workloads in the network

17.1 Introduction

17.1.1 Overview of the CISCO CSM

17.1.2 Overview of EWLM's load balancing recommendations

17.1.3 The Server/Application State Protocol (SASP)

17.2 Configuring the components

17.2.1 Configuring the Catalyst 6509 and the CSM for EWLM

17.2.2 Configuring EWLM for load balancing

17.2.3 Failover considerations

17.3 Network balancing example

17.3.1 Network and application topology

17.3.2 Load balancing configurations

17.4 Lessons learned

17.4.1 Best practices

17.4.2 Special EWLM benefits to load balancing

17.4.3 Troubleshooting

17.5 Conclusion

Chapter 18. How to consolidate, simplify, and optimize the storage IT infrastructure

18.1 Introduction

18.2 General strategy

18.3 Solution components.

18.4 Scenario

18.4.1 Current environment

18.4.2 Business objectives

18.4.3 Technical objectives

18.4.4 Solution approach

18.4.5 Benefits and summary

18.5 Product positioning: Conclusion

18.5.1 IBM TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller

18.5.2 IBM TotalStorage SAN File System

18.5.3 IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center

18.6 Summary

Chapter 19. How to monitor using EWLM

19.1 Introduction

19.2 General strategy

19.3 Solution components

19.4 Scenario

19.4.1 Current environment

19.4.2 Business objective

19.4.3 Technical objectives

19.5 Scenario implementation

19.5.1 Architecture components

19.5.2 Implementation of IBM EWLM

19.5.3 Monitoring scenario

19.5.4 How to use EWLM to debug/diagnose a performance problem

19.5.5 Benefits and summary

19.6 Glimpse of the future

19.7 Summary

Part 4 Appendixes

Appendix A. Getting Started with the Virtualization Engine

A.1 "Start Your Engines" Workshops

A.2 VE Consulting/Assessment study engagement overview

A.2.1 Objectives

A.2.2 Offerings

A.2.3 Methodology

A.3 The Planning Advisor

Appendix B. Standards overview

B.1 Open source

B.2 Standards organizations

B.2.1 IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force

B.2.2 W3C - World Wide Web Consortium

B.2.3 JCP - Java Community Process

B.2.4 OASIS - Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards

B.2.5 WS-I - Web Services Interoperability Organization

B.2.6 DMTF - Distributed Management Task Force

B.2.7 GGF - Global Grid Forum

B.2.8 OMG - Object Management Group

B.3 Key standards

B.3.1 XML standards

B.3.2 SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol

B.3.3 WSDL - Web Services Description Language

B.3.4 UDDI - Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration

B.3.5 WS-I Basic Profile 1.0a.

B.3.6 WS-Security - Web Services Security.

Notes:

"June 2005."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC:

842940038