Virtual Systems

WebSphere CloudBurst directs you to the virtual systems page where you can monitor the deployment status of your system.

These virtual systems are the running instantiation of WebSphere middleware environments represented by WebSphere CloudBurst patterns.

Clustering involves combining a group of physical systems into a single hosting environment for one or more applications or virtual systems.

The examples in this article show some of the ways to model simple virtual systems with the deployment architecture tools.

The user experience -- with respect to deploying patterns and managing virtual systems -- is consistent regardless of the target platform.

IBM WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance helps you create, deploy, and manage WebSphere virtual systems within a private cloud.

WebSphere CloudBurst is a complete solution for managing the entire lifecycle of virtual systems in a private cloud.

The resulting image could then be used to construct patterns to ensure that all deployed virtual systems included the required software.

In a tactical sense, this means applying those fixes and upgrades to the WebSphere CloudBurst virtual systems running in your cloud.

The following section shows a few examples of virtual systems modeled in the topology editor.

From a tactical standpoint, you will primarily interact with WebSphere CloudBurst virtual systems.

The example in Figure 2 shows how several virtual systems can be hosted on a single physical system.

The topology in Figure 27 shows a simple System z system that hosts several different virtual systems.

Applying interim fixes to deployed virtual systems.

Simplify the creation of test environments by using virtual systems.

Now that the new fix has been created, you can apply the fix on eligible virtual systems.

The virtualsystems value specifies the list of URIs of the virtual systems created from this pattern.

In this way, the hypervisor makes virtual systems more flexible than physical systems.

Applying fixpacks to deployed virtual systems.

In some cases, however, you might need to apply fixes directly to virtual systems already deployed in the cloud.

You have a view of all the virtual systems created by WebSphere CloudBurst, and you can easily monitor their resource consumption.

When the deployment process is complete, the Virtual Systems page will be updated to include the current status of the virtual system

Applying fixpacks to virtual systems