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IBM PowerVM deployment modeling features for virtualization

How to customize the Rational Software Architect topology editor

Frederico Muñoz (frederico.munoz@pt.ibm.com), IT Architect, IBM

Frederico Muñoz is an IT architect at IBM, in Portugal.

Summary: This tutorial shows how to use IBM® Rational® Software Architect customization abilities to model IBM® PowerVM™ topologies. It walks you through the steps for adding new units, with new capabilities and requirements, and shows how to leverage existing building blocks to add a new virtualization layer. It also describes the existing support for x86 and IBM® System z® virtualization modeling through a step-by-step approach that explains the underlying concepts used and how to apply them in building the new PowerVM model.

Date: 08 Mar 2011
Level: Intermediate
PDF: A4 and Letter (3944 KB | 61 pages)Get Adobe® Reader®

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Additional possibilities

This concludes this tutorial. You now have custom units in your local palette that can be used to good effect in modeling PowerVM deployments. Above all, you should feel more comfortable in customizing Rational Software Architect standard units to adapt them to a wider range of scenarios.

There is plenty more that could be done in terms of PowerVM deployment, for example:

Require more than one HMC for availability purposes
Create completely new domains and capabilities
Implement something to model Virtual I/O servers
Learn how to model something akin to the System z CPU allocation model

In this tutorial, we barely touched the surface of what you can do with the deployment modeling features. Exploring some of the link types, for example, reveals numerous possibilities regarding collocation rules and capacity planning.

Rational Software Architect deployment topologies are both simple to use and to customize, yet very clear and intuitive to use, too. The Help system contains examples and tutorials that help you understand all of the potential uses. Explore the Resources section here to start learning more.

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