Srirama Mandyam Krishnakumar

Oceano-SLA based management of a computing utility

Oceano is a prototype of a highly available, scaleable, and manageable infrastructure for an e-business computing utility. It enables multiple customers to be hosted on a collection of sequentially shared resources. The hosting environment is divided into secure domains, each supporting one customer. These domains are dynamic: the resources assigned to them may be augmented when the load increases and reduced when load dips. This dynamic resource allocation enables flexible service level agreements (SLAs) with customers in an environment where peak loads are an order of magnitude greater than the normal steady state.

Dynamic resource management in an eUtility

Oceano is management software for a eUtility infrastructure capable of providing cost-effective, autonomic resource allocation for multiple customer or application domains, in response to existent performance and availability conditions. The control layer of Oceano provides mechanisms to manage resources. This layer consists of a resource director and a set of resource managers. The resource director formulates resource configurations and coordinates their execution through resource managers. These resource managers maintain restore state and carry out detailed configuration tasks. This paper describes the Oceano resource management model and its server and application deployment resource managers. A prototype of Oceano has been developed and deployed on an 80 server platform, and has been tested with multiple domains and applications.

Technical forum—Management of application complexes in multitier clustered systems

In this Technical Forum article, we describe a generalized management framework for application complexes in multitiered cluster environments. The application complexes can be viewed as distinct autonomic computing entities that live together in thecluster. The management framework was implemented on a rack-mounted cluster of servers using the IBM Director management tool.