Support for Utility Computing

The architecture of AppLogic makes it a great foundation for utility computing services targeted toward general-purpose web applications with transactional and streaming workloads. To further enable utility computing models, AppLogic provides:

Live hardware provisioning

AppLogic has the ability to add and remove servers and storage on the grid. Adding servers requires little more than connecting them to the grid and entering their IP addresses in the grid configuration. The new server is rebooted automatically, made part of the grid and its recources are immediately provisioned to run applications. To remove a server (or several), the grid operator only needs to mark them as disabled; AppLogic will migrate automatically the virtual appliances and volumes away from those servers and notify the operator when they are ready for removal.

Resource metering

The AppLogic resource metering subsystem is an integral part of the kernel. It interacts directly with the scheduler, and the storage, virtual machine and connection managers. This makes it easy to measure and report hardware resources assigned to each application and component, enabling 3TERA customers to implement sophisticated billing systems based on actual resource consumption.

Visual interface in a browser

AppLogic implements an AJAX-based visual interface for creating virtual appliances, assembling application infrastructure, monitoring and troubleshoting applications and managing the system. AppLogic users can integrate, deploy and manage their applications from anywhere in the world using only a browser and basic IT skills.

-- VladM - 23 May 2006