CI Class for Virtual servers
Which CI class should be used for the tracking the virtual servers? In our current environment(CMDB 2.0), we have the servers in the Computer System CI. We are planning to put the virtual servers into the Virtual System Class and related them to the Hosted server(Computer System) using the Dependency Relationship. Is this the correct way of representing the virtual servers and their relationship. In future, we plan to integrate with both Marimba and Topology discovery. Is there anything extra, we need to consider keeping this in view? Please let me know your views. ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor: www.rmsportal.com ARSlist: Where the Answers Are
Re: CI Class for Virtual servers
Sri, We may have different business rules than you do, but our customer's philosophy is that since VMWare moves virtual servers at will depending on system resources, we'll count them all as just Servers. If VMWARE isdynamically allocating resources, then how often would you have to run discovery on the virtual servers, and how long would that data be valid? You would be doing a lot of work to have a snapshot of your virtual server configuration that could change at any minute. It may be enough to know if a server is a host (by setting a menu on the ComputerSystem form) and then let the server admins find out the rest when they need to know it. This also makes sense from a change control point of view in that, well, there's no change control the way our customer runs VMWARE. YMMV. Drew On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Srikanth wrote: Which CI class should be used for the tracking the virtual servers? In our current environment(CMDB 2.0), we have the servers in the Computer System CI. We are planning to put the virtual servers into the Virtual System Class and related them to the Hosted server(Computer System) using the Dependency Relationship. Is this the correct way of representing the virtual servers and their relationship. In future, we plan to integrate with both Marimba and Topology discovery. Is there anything extra, we need to consider keeping this in view? Please let me know your views. ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor: www.rmsportal.com ARSlist: Where the Answers Are ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor: www.rmsportal.com ARSlist: Where the Answers Are
Re: CI Class for Virtual servers
I posted an answer in http://developer.bmc.com regarding how TD 1.4 populates CMDB. Van Wiles Atrium Core Engineering Services BMC Software -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Drew Shuller Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 1:40 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: CI Class for Virtual servers Sri, We may have different business rules than you do, but our customer's philosophy is that since VMWare moves virtual servers at will depending on system resources, we'll count them all as just Servers. If VMWARE isdynamically allocating resources, then how often would you have to run discovery on the virtual servers, and how long would that data be valid? You would be doing a lot of work to have a snapshot of your virtual server configuration that could change at any minute. It may be enough to know if a server is a host (by setting a menu on the ComputerSystem form) and then let the server admins find out the rest when they need to know it. This also makes sense from a change control point of view in that, well, there's no change control the way our customer runs VMWARE. YMMV. Drew On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Srikanth wrote: Which CI class should be used for the tracking the virtual servers? In our current environment(CMDB 2.0), we have the servers in the Computer System CI. We are planning to put the virtual servers into the Virtual System Class and related them to the Hosted server(Computer System) using the Dependency Relationship. Is this the correct way of representing the virtual servers and their relationship. In future, we plan to integrate with both Marimba and Topology discovery. Is there anything extra, we need to consider keeping this in view? Please let me know your views. ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor: www.rmsportal.com ARSlist: Where the Answers Are ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor: www.rmsportal.com ARSlist: Where the Answers Are ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor: www.rmsportal.com ARSlist: Where the Answers Are
