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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 2015
Filed:
May. 31, 2013
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Gerd Breiter, Wildberg, DE;
Simon Moser, Stuttgart, DE;
Isabell Schwertle, Metzingen, DE;
Thomas Spatzier, Sindelfingen, DE;
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system and technique for allocating instances of resources to an IT-service includes a management engine operable to analyze a service model specifying a structure of an IT-service comprising nodes representing resources and being indicative of a resource type of said represented resource. Management rules specify the management of said node's resource. For each node, the engine determines the resource type indicated by said node; determines rules assigned to said node; evaluates the rules assigned to said node on a resource instance catalog and the determined resource type; applies a selection criteria on a service provider catalog for selecting a resource manager, the service provider catalog being indicative of one or more resource managers respectively being operable to provide a resource instance of a given resource type to the IT-service; create an instance of the resource provided by the selected resource manager; and allocate said instance to the IT-service.