Book description
In a traditional deployment model, software is installed on a physical server, and it is configured for the particular data center environment. The cloud deployment model requires that the dependency on a specific hardware configuration is severed. This IBM® Redbooks® publication guides you through the transition from the traditional application deployment model to the cloud-friendly deployment model. It explains how to achieve these goals by packaging the software stacks into industry standard virtual appliances.
A key part of this transition involves using the IBM Image
Construction and Composition Tool. This tool is the IBM tool for
creating virtualized workloads that target several private cloud
deployment platforms, including platforms from IBM and not from
IBM. In fact, this tool is unique in its ability to support such a
wide range of cloud offerings. It is also the only tool in the
marketplace that can create virtual appliances for both x86 and IBM
Power hardware architectures.
This book provides an in-depth look into the capabilities and
internal workings of Image Construction and Composition Tool. It
focuses on the capabilities of this tool, which target the
virtualization and cloud offerings of IBM Systems and Technology
Group. These offerings include IBM Systems Director
VMControl™, IBM SmartCloud™ Entry, and IBM
PureFlex™ System with Flex System Manager appliance. The
Image Construction and Composition Tool also has a much richer set
of capabilities. Specifically, it supports IBM Workload Deployer,
IBM PureApplication™ Systems, and SmartCloud
Provisioning.
This Redbooks publication targets software architects, cloud solutions architects, and cloud administrators. Its goal is to arm you with the expert-level skills required to package the existing and newly created applications into self-configurable, smart virtual appliances.
Please note that the additional material referenced in the text is not available from IBM.
Table of contents
- Notices
- Preface
- Business Partner programs
- Chapter 1: Introduction to virtual appliance construction
- Chapter 2: Anatomy of a virtual appliance
- Chapter 3: Architecture of the IBM Image Construction and Composition Tool
- Chapter 4: Setting up the virtual appliance build environment
-
Chapter 5: Product Activator Development Kit
- Overview of the Product Activator Development Kit
- Installing PADK
-
A walkthrough of the development process by using PADK
- Installing the Virtual Solutions Activation Engine manually
- Prototyping the activation program
- Creating a product activator project in Eclipse
- Coding the activation program
- Setting up the connection to the target virtual machine
- Running and debugging the activation program
- PADK integration with Image Construction and Composition Tool
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Chapter 6: KVM Express cloud provider
- Overview of the KVM provider architecture
- Setting up the KVM provider
- Creating a base image from ISO
- Importing a running virtual machine
- Importing virtual images (appliances) from the KVM cloud provider
- Removing an image (appliance) from the virtual appliance repository
- Working with bundles
- Validating virtual images by using the OVA Runtime
- Tips to override default behavior of the KVM provider
- Troubleshooting
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Chapter 7: PowerVM Express cloud provider
- Overview of the PowerVM provider
- Requirements for PowerVM provider
- Configuring a PowerVM provider
- Creating a virtual appliance
-
Troubleshooting
- Checking the Image Construction and Composition Tool and the PowerVM provider versions
- Checking the PowerVM provider logs
- Checking the Image Construction and Composition Tool logs
- Importing from a running virtual machine
- Importing from a cloud provider
- Extending an image
- Synchronizing an image
- Capturing an image
- Exporting an image
- Chapter 8: ESX cloud provider
- Chapter 9: Constructing simple virtual appliances
- Chapter 10: Constructing complex virtual appliances
- Chapter 11: Virtual appliance deployment options
- Chapter 12: Proven practices
- Appendix A: Sample script for KVM host setup
- Appendix B: Sample scripts for simple virtual appliance
- Appendix C: Additional material
- Abbreviations and acronyms
- Related publications
- Index (1/2)
- Index (2/2)
- Back cover
Product information
- Title: Creating Smart Virtual Appliances with the IBM Image Construction and Composition Tool
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2012
- Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
- ISBN: None
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