Grid Computing Products and Services

106 Grid Computing Products and Services

6.1 Introduction

Virtualization Engine (VE) is an IBM suite, a set of systems, products, and

technologies that work together in a comprehensive way to provide a seamless

and unified side of the IT infrastructure. This reduces the complexity of allocating

new resources to applications, as all of these resources are dealt within the same

fashion. It also allows easier monitoring and management of the IT resources.

As shown on Figure 6-1, VE has three major groups of virtualization technologies

and products:

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Figure 6-1 Groups of virtualization

System services

System services’ products and technologies are higher level components in the

stack of infrastructure layers. This set of components is intended to create the

environment to run applications, manage the complexity of the technology, and

create a unified repository of storage resources. There are two main groups of

elements: those related to servers and those related to storage.

Note: The IBM Virtualization Engine utilizes key IBM virtualization

technologies, making a comprehensive approach available to enterprise-wide

virtualization that is consistent across heterogeneous environments.

Complete information about IBM Virtualization Solutions are presented at the

following Web site:

http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/about/virtualization/index.html

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