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09/13/2006, 1:30 PM - 2:15 PM
Speaker:
Sujoy Basu, Senior Researcher, HP.
Over the years, grid computing has evolved from utilizing stove-piped protocols and architectures to a loosely-coupled, service oriented style of computing using Web services. As the numbers of virtualized resources increase, the challenges of effectively utilizing the resources and managing them optimally become increasingly important to address. The various functions that comprise grid resource management include resource discovery, resource monitoring and control operations to manage the health of grid resources in an optimal state. By taking advantage of the common architectural styles and related technologies that grid computing and Web services based management software are built upon, we illustrate how resources virtualized using grid technology can be managed and utilized more effectively in a commercial environment. We also illustrate how tools and technologies that allow users to capture relationships and dependencies between business services and infrastructure services such as those virtualized using grid middleware provide a holistic view of grid management that spans business and IT. This capability allows different stakeholders such as Line of Business Managers, IT developers and IT operations staff to get a unified view of business and IT services that are within their management domain, thus increasing collaboration between the stakeholders.
The Globus ToolkitŪ is a widely used, open source grid middleware product and provides Web services based components for resource discovery, job management, data management etc. HP OpenView Service Oriented Architecture Manager (SOAM) is a management software solution that provides foundational components for integrating and managing business and IT services utilizing a model-based approach, using Web services technology in its underpinnings. We will describe and illustrate how SOAM can be used to discover and manage resources virtualized using the Globus Toolkit, at the same time allowing these resources to be integrated with the business services that utilize them, thus allowing them to be managed at the business service level. We will also describe some of the integration challenges we encountered and our approach and solution to mitigate those challenges.
Key Take Aways: By integrating Web services based management software solutions and grid technology, we have illustrated how we can extend the visibility of grid resources to the business services that utilize them. This integration extends the reach of grid middleware into commercial settings that utilize a service oriented approach, at the same time allowing grid resources to be managed more effectively and in a standard, interoperable fashion.
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