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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2011
Narendran Sachindran, C.R. Park, IN;
Alberto Giammaria, Austin, TX (US);
Manish Gupta, Neb Sarai, IN;
Manish Sethi, Vasant Kunj, IN;
Narendran Sachindran, C.R. Park, IN;
Alberto Giammaria, Austin, TX (US);
Manish Gupta, Neb Sarai, IN;
Manish Sethi, Vasant Kunj, IN;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A plug-in-based templatization framework for automating the creation of open virtualization framework (OVF) virtual appliance (VA) is provided. According to one embodiment, a framework is stored which comprises a plurality of product-specific add-ons. Each of the plurality of product-specific add-ons comprises a discovery element, an activation logic template element, an open virtualization package envelope template element. The plurality of product-specific add-ons are executed against a first virtual composite application instance while said the virtual composite application instance is executing in a first virtualization platform environment to automatically generate an open virtualization package template. A second virtual composite application instance is then deployed within a second virtualization platform environment utilizing the open virtualization package template.