IBM Workload Deployer Terminology 101

Cloud groups • Cloud groups represent a pool of resource to which you can deploy patterns Can be custom cloud groups (collection of defined hypervisors) or managed cloud groups (reference to VMControl or vCenter)3 © 2011 IBM Corporation

Virtual system patterns• Virtual system patterns are a collection of image parts and script packages that represent a middleware environment Treated as atomic units in IBM Workload Deployer7 © 2011 IBM Corporation

IBM Hypervisor Edition images• IBM Hypervisor Edition images are virtual images that contain an operating system and selected middleware components Various OS distributions and middleware products/versions8 © 2011 IBM Corporation

Virtual application patterns• Virtual application patterns are a collection of platform resources that constitute a complete application environment Serve to abstract complexities of middleware infrastructure by focusing on the business need14 © 2011 IBM Corporation

Virtual application instances• Virtual application instances are created by deploying virtual application patterns Virtual application instances provide workload-aware management21 © 2011 IBM Corporation

Environment profiles• Environment profiles are used to group related resources and provide more control over deployment configuration Enable fine-grained resource limit controls25 © 2011 IBM Corporation

Other terms• Virtual appliances: An OVF file and related VMware virtual disks that have been imported into IBM Workload Deployer• Task queue: The list of running and pending tasks in IBM Workload Deployer• Users: Defined users of the IBM Workload Deployer system• User groups: Collections of defined users26 © 2011 IBM Corporation

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