sense Virtualization Platform
We have looked at the leading Virtualization server providers and extended the sense cloud application platform to two Virtualization technology providers.
Xen and VMWare are the leading Virtualization server providers today, and offer best in class performance for both servers and operating systems together with the highest degree of management functionality. So, while every modern operating system can be virtualized with industry-leading performance, they all suffer for being disconnected from a business approach to scaling.
The sense virtualization platform compliments existing Virtualization servers. Built on sense the sense virtualization platform federates VMs to;
- extend VMs to both traditional JEE infrastructure and to cloud computing resources (like Amazon EC2 and others) – you can operate a virtual pool of resources across multiple platform types
- add critical business constraints on how the VMs are scaled to satisfy defined _business SLA_s – this lets you add business conditions for scaling VM resources to the technical criteria generally available from today’s _virtualization servers_
The role of Sensible Cloud’s innovative cloud application platform sense, is to match the business layers of an agreement (Business SLA) with the physical layer of a virtualized platform, by instantiating the right number and quality of VMs depending on defined business rules, and maintaining a consistent and real time catalogue of what “hardware” in the cloud is available to operate a new VM instance.
sense virtualization platform
This immediately lets a company adopt a “pay-as-you-go” strategy for the next challenging business application to be deployed, where hardware is dimensioned only at runtime by the configured sense policies, and can bridge from the company’s internal server farm to an out-service in a secure and managed way, while still respecting all internal policies. sense virtualization is a non invasive solution to let virtual platforms switch on/off hardware depending on business rules expressed in a rich and high level language.
The sense virtualization platform is enforcing the idea of Platform As A Service (PaaS), where sense can interpret a single operating system instance as an SLA based service or can go deeper within the instance to promote SLA services in a more fine grained management approach – more commonly, applications use both forms of scaling to achieve the best SLA results.
Once the platform is up and running, sense feels the status of all the services around the federation and shares their health. Instances are configured in groups and scaling options are set up on a specific group depending on the health status of the group and on the business policy attached. This lets a server farm scale a particular service if it is a very important service, and to maintain at a lower level other groups of instances for lower value services.
sense virtualization platform is the solution to orchestrate all the virtual instances available in a non invasive way and to scale to the cloud only when needed.
