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IBM Tivoli Intelligent ThinkDynamic Orchestrator and IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager help automate the provisioning and orchestration tasks by invoking pre-prepared workflows that perform most of the provisioning and orchestration tasks automatically. This frees up resources to focus on more productive issues, and helps allocate CPU capacity to where it is needed and when it is needed. Workflow and Automation Package management are the single most important success factor in any IBM Tivoli Intelligent ThinkDynamic Orchestrator and IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager implementation. Understanding and mastering this issue is critical for Independent Software Vendors (ISV) who wish to allow their products to be an integrated part of any IBM Tivoli Intelligent ThinkDynamic Orchestrator and IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager environment. The primary goal of this IBM Redbook is to support ISVs, Business Partners, Customers, and IBMers in developing and implementing Workflows and Automation Packages to be used for automation purposes by IBM Tivoli Intelligent ThinkDynamic Orchestrator and IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager. This redbook is focused on effectively planning, developing, testing, and implementing product, device, or customer specific best practices into the IBM Tivoli Intelligent ThinkDynamic Orchestrator and IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager engines, in order to automate management processes related to specific system and device implementations.

This IBM Redbook gives a broad understanding of IBM WebSphere Extended Deployment V6.0 , explaining the functions and features while helping you to design and create a solution for your own environment. The following techniques are explained in this book: - Using WebSphere Extended Deployment dynamic operations. - Distributing workload with the On Demand Router. - Using visualization options to display information about the environment. - Using WebSphere Partitioning Facility to achieve high-performance. - Using ObjectGrid in IBM WebSphere Extended Deployment V6.0 . - Adding non-WebSphere Extended Deployment servers to your topology. - Configuring a highly available Deployment Manager. - Using repository checkpoint/restore to save and restore your configurations. - Using Application Edition Manager to install and support application versions. This book also provides step-by-step instructions for implementing a sample, multiple-machine environment. We use this environment to illustrate most of the IBM WebSphere Extended Deployment V6.0 features.

IBM Dynamic Infrastructure (IBM DI) for mySAP Business Suite is the new systems management software that enables clients to achieve a better balance between the demand for SAP computing resources and the supply of those resources. IDI for mySAP Business Suite helps reduce total cost of ownership and improve the quality of service in SAP solution environments, while supporting the SAP Adaptive Computing Infrastructure. IBM DI for mySAP Business Suite helps clients design and implement IBM DI for SAP solutions. This IBM Redbook describes how to map a current infrastructure to a customized installation of IBM DI. It also provides examples of an on demand solution in a heterogeneous environment that will enable customers to run their SAP environments more efficiently. Dynamically provisioned SAP application servers assist administrators in providing business-required accountability and Service Level Agreement (SLA0 compliance and management tools.

This IBM Redbook (along with its companion volume, On Demand Operating Environment: Creating Business Flexibility, SG24-6633), provides an insight into the kind of operating environment required to support an On Demand Business. It provides an overview of the architecture of an On Demand Operating Environment and describes in more detail the components that are required to manage the infrastructure. To meet the business needs of being responsive, variable, focused, and resilient, an On Demand Operating Environment must be integrated, autonomic, virtualized, and open. Though these attributes are all interrelated, this redbook focuses on the automation and virtualization components as they enable efficient infrastructure management. This redbook provides descriptions of several approaches that one can choose to start implementing pieces of an On Demand Operating Environment today. Which approach is right for the reader will depend on their specific business environment and their immediate needs.

IBM Tivoli Intelligent ThinkDynamic Orchestrator and IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager automate the traditional manual provisioning process, performance measurement, capacity planning, and infrastructure deployment. IBM Tivoli Intelligent ThinkDynamic Orchestrator operates in a closed loop that performs automatic resource-requirements prediction based on predefined service level objectives and agreements, and automates infrastructure deployment. This just-in-time cycle ensures that each application has the resource it needs, when it needs it—without static overprovisioning. This book is targeted at a diverse audience but is mainly geared toward the technical professional (consultants, IT architects, and IT specialists) responsible for providing quality services in an IT organization. It can be used as reference upon the deployment of IBM Tivoli Intelligent ThinkDynamic Orchestrator and IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager guiding throughout the planning, installation, configuration, general usage, and troubleshooting phases, with focus on effective deployment of these products in a way that quickly generates real business value for customers.

This IBM Redbook provides the foundation for establishing an automatic provisioning environment of Web server solutions. The material discussed in this redbook provides detailed information on using the IBM BladeCenter platform as a building block for hosting a highly available, multi-tier application. The redbook also shows how the IBM Director and Remote Deployment Manager software products can be used to automate the deployment of WebSphere software, and demonstrates how these products can be scripted to provide hot-standby and hot-addition of blade servers to running WebSphere clusters.. The additional software components of IBM Web Infrastructure Orchestration are designed to respond dynamically to Web capacity needs and utilization issues. This product bundle, based on the IBM eServer BladeCenter, consists of pre-integrated versions of WebSphere Application Server, DB2, Tivoli Storage Manager, Tivoli Monitoring, and TotalStorage hardware, coordinated by defined business policies and managed by IBM Tivoli Intelligent ThinkDynamic Orchestrator. This redbook is intended for an audience of experienced developers, designers, planners, network specialists, and testers of the software and hardware components listed above.