Application Provisioning Wizard

The Application Provisioning wizard allows you to provision, configure, and optionally start an application using an application template.

You can reach the Application Provisioning wizard in the following ways:

• from the dashboard, select the Applications tab, select the template application to be provisioned, right-click the mouse and select Provision from the drop-down menu.
• from the dashboard, select the Applications tab, select the template application to be provisioned, and click on the provision button at the top of the application list page.

Table of Contents

General (Step 1 of 4)

Name

Unique name of the provisioned application on this grid.

Description

Human-readable description of the application.

User 1

Free-form user-defined text intended for specifying billing code.

User 2

Free-form user-defined text intended for specifying billing code.

Documentation URL

URL where the documentation for the application can be found. The URL may be opened by clicking on the Open URL text to the right of the field.

Configuring Resources (Step 2 of 4)

Constrain by Resources

Specify the amount of resource for each hardware resource separately (CPU, memory and bandwidth) by moving the slide bar or entering the value manually to the right of the resource range.

The following resource types can be specified:

CPU

Portion of CPU or number of CPUs to be allocated for the application. Fractional amounts can be specified as a decimal number (e.g., 0.5 or 3.5). Whole CPUs are specified simply as an integer (e.g., 12).

Memory

Amount of memory to be allocated for the application. The amount can be specified as an integer value in Megabytes (e.g., 512M) or in Gigabytes (e.g., 9G).

Bandwidth

Amount of network bandwidth to be allocated for this application (total for all terminals/interfaces, including the internal communication inside the application). The amount can be specified as an integer value in Megabits/sec (e.g., 10M) or in Gigabits/sec (e.g., 1G).

To restore the default value for a particular resource, press the restore button .

Volumes

Specify the new size for the application user and singleton class volumes. The volume size can be specified as an integer value in Megabytes (e.g., 512m) or in Gigabytes (e.g., 2G).

The default size of the volumes are shown in normal font weight. Volume sizes explicitly configured for this application are in bold.

Configuring Properties (Step 3 of 4)

The 'Configuration Properties' dialog of the wizard allows you to set values for properties of the application, allowing you to specialize this instance of the application. This is useful for configuring location-specific parameters, such as IP addresses, and for configuring tuning parameters, such as cache sizes.

The default values of the properties are shown in normal font weight. Property values explicitly configured for this application are in bold. Mandatory property volumes that have not yet been configured are highlighted in red.

For information on the property, its type and allowed values, select the info button . To restore the default value of a property, press the restore button (use the "Reset All" button to reset the values of all properties to their defaults).

Finalizing (Step 4 of 4)

Start Application after Provisioning

Select this if you want the application to be started after the provisioning. If left unselected, the provisioned application is not started.

Use Filesystem-level copies when copying the volumes of the new application

Select this if you want the application volumes copied using filesystem-level copy rather than block-level copy. This is useful if the application has very large volumes that have little data on them.

When creating volumes for the new application, prefilll all blocks in the volumes

Select this if you want the volumes prefilled (i.e., all blocks allocated). Note, this may greatly increase the amount of time it takes to provision the application depending on the size of the application volumes being created.

Provisioning

The 'Provisioning' dialog of the wizard shows the overall progress for the application provisioning operation.

-- BeckyH - 08 Sep 2008