This deck covers basic terminology for IBM Workload Deployer. It introduces and defines the most commonly used terms when discussing the cloud management device.

1. Dustin Amrhein (damrhei@us.ibm.com) @damrhein - WebSphere Technical Specialist
IBM Workload Deployer
Terminology 101
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2. Cloud Terminology
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3. 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)
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4. Hypervisors
• Hypervisors are hosts capable of hosting virtualized
environments created from pattern deployment
Can be PowerVM, zVM, or VMware ESX hosts
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5. IP groups
• IP groups contain subnet information and a range of IP
addresses that are assigned to deployed environments
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6. Virtual System
Terminology
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7. 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 Deployer
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8. 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/versions
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9. Image parts
• Image parts are the different types of nodes you can create using
an IBM Hypervisor Edition image
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10. Script packages
• Script packages provide a way to customize the configuration of
IBM Hypervisor Edition image parts
Definition includes description and invocation details
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11. Add-ons
• Add-ons are specialized scripts that provide system-level
configuration and tuning
Add-ons run before script packages in the deployment process
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12. Virtual system instances
• Virtual system instances are created by deploying virtual system
patterns
Virtual system instances contain one or more virtual machines
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13. Virtual Application
Terminology
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14. 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 need
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15. Pattern types
• Pattern types are collections of plug-ins that provide a specific
solution
Pattern types are used to build virtual application patterns
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16. Cloud components
• Cloud components represent a middleware service in a virtual
application pattern
Cloud components
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17. Policies
• Policies represent how a middleware service is configured and
managed
Policies
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18. Links
• Links describe the relationship between cloud components in a
virtual application pattern
Link
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19. Virtual application templates
• Virtual application templates represent predefined components
and configuration used to deploy environments
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20. Reusable components
• Reusable components are predefined cloud components that
can be used to build virtual application patterns
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21. Virtual application instances
• Virtual application instances are created by deploying virtual
application patterns
Virtual application instances provide workload-aware management
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22. Miscellaneous
Terminology
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23. Emergency fixes
• Emergency fixes are used to apply fixes and updates to virtual
system instances
Fixes may be IBM provided or custom
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24. Shared services
• Shared services are system components that provide runtime
services to virtual application instances
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25. Environment profiles
• Environment profiles are used to group related resources and
provide more control over deployment configuration
Enable fine-grained resource limit controls
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26. 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 users
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