International Business Machines Corporation

James R Barros

Birgit Monika Pfitzmann

Christopher Ward

John Joseph Rofrano

Brian L Peterson

Kamal Bhattacharya

Kunwadee Sripanidkulchai

Simon J Kofkin-Hansen

Richard B Ehrhardt

William B Padman

A method and associated systems for automated deployment of a private modular cloud-computing environment. A processor receives and analyzes user requirements, then uses those requirements to select and optimize module packages that direct automatic installations & configurations of modules of the private modular cloud-computing environment. These packages provide resources and instructions that let the processor first validate a base computing platform as being able to physically support desired virtualized cloud platform and services, then automatically install and configure the cloud's virtualization layer, cloud-management stack, virtual infrastructure, cloud services, applications, middleware, and other components onto the base platform. The processor analyzes and confirms the success of each deployment step of each module package as the step is performed. Module packages may be saved, revised, and reused to identify, update, duplicate, or optimize modules of the deployed cloud platform.

Automated deployment of a private modular cloud-computing environment

Data characterizing a source computing environment having at least one hardware resource and at least one workload is obtained, as is a specification of a target computing environment to which the at least one workload is to be migrated in a migration. Based on the data characterizing the source computing environment and the specification of the target computing environment, the migration is categorized into one of a plurality of categories; and the migration is specified in accordance with a migration technique selected based on the categorizing step. Techniques to identify suitable migration candidates are also provided.

Systematic migration of workload based on classification

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