Overview of IBM MQ Virtual System Pattern Type

IBM® MQ Virtual System Pattern Type for IBM PureApplication® System (referred to in this documentation as IBM MQ Virtual System Pattern Type) contains an IBM MQ plug-in (the virtual system software component) and associated script packages, which you can use to create a virtual system pattern for your IBM MQ environment.

IBM MQ Virtual System Pattern Type is provided as a .tgz file, which is named for example 8.0.0.7-IBM-MQ-PURELinuxX64.tgz.

IBM MQ Virtual System Pattern Type versions

IBM MQ Virtual System Pattern Type is available for x86-64 Linux® and AIX® platforms:
  • [V8.0.0.2 Feb 2015][Linux]

    It runs on IBM PureApplication System Version 2.0 or later and supports IBM MQ 8.0.0, Fix Pack 2 or later.

  • [AIX][V8.0.0.4 Feb 2016]

    It runs on IBM PureApplication System Version 2.1.2 and supports IBM MQ 8.0.0, Fix Pack 4 or later.

Table 1. IBM MQ Virtual System Pattern Type versions for x86-64 Linux
Platform IBM MQ Virtual System Pattern Type version IBM MQ version IBM PureApplication System environment
x86-64 Linux 1.0.0.1 8.0.0.2 IBM PureApplication System W2500
8.0.0.3
1.0.0.2 8.0.0.2
8.0.0.4
1.0.0.6 8.0.0.4
8.0.0.6
1.0.0.7 8.0.0.4
8.0.0.7
Table 2. IBM MQ Virtual System Pattern Type versions for Power AIX
Platform IBM MQ Virtual System Pattern Type version IBM MQ version IBM PureApplication System environment
Power AIX 1.0.0.2 8.0.0.4 IBM PureApplication System W2700
1.0.0.6 8.0.0.4
8.0.0.6
1.0.0.7 8.0.0.4
8.0.0.7

IBM PureApplication System

IBM PureApplication System helps you to manage virtual applications in a cloud-computing environment, in which data and services are in data centers. PureApplication System can be placed in a data center to dispense applications and topologies into a pool or cloud of virtualized hardware, and to manage these resources. The data and services can then be accessed from any connected devices over the internet. By using IBM PureApplication System, you can access the resources in your cloud and you can manage multiple environments from a single system and remote interface.

IBM PureApplication System installs and configures your software and manages the application runtime by using policies that you define.

For more information about IBM PureApplication System, see:

Virtual system patterns

Virtual system patterns enable efficient and repeatable deployments of systems that include one or more virtual machine instances, and the applications that run on them. You can completely automate the deployment and eliminate the need to perform multiple time-consuming manual tasks.

IBM MQ Virtual System Pattern Type contains the IBM MQ software component. You can install the IBM MQ software component onto a system image as part of a virtual system deployment, and can then be managed by the PureApplication System pattern engine.

Included in the virtual system pattern are a number of script packages (compressed files in .zip format) that can be used for automation of the Product Lifecycle Management. Script packages can be run when the pattern is deployed as a virtual system, when the virtual system is deleted, or whenever you choose to run the scripts manually.

You can add these artifacts to a blank template to build a customized virtual system pattern for your IBM MQ environment.

For more information about the purpose and usage of virtual patterns, see:

Virtual system patterns in IBM PureApplication System 2.0

"Classic" virtual system patterns are based on hypervisor images. To avoid various problems, including the software (such as IBM MQ) being so closely bound to a hypervisor image, virtual system patterns in IBM PureApplication System 2.0 separate the operating system from the middleware and allow dynamic composition of middleware on top of a specified base operating system image.

For more information about the difference between "classic" patterns that use a hypervisor and virtual system patterns that separate the operating system from the middleware, see the IBM Cloud® (formerly Bluemix®) article What's new for virtual system patterns in Pure Application System 2.0.