This glossary defines WebSphere® Message Broker Hypervisor Edition terms and abbreviations.
- Cloud Group
- A collection of one of more hypervisors.
- IBM® Hardware
Appliances
- A term used to reference both IBM Workload Deployer and IBM PureApplication® System appliances. Both products are hardware and software based and sold as sealed boxes that are used to deploy the Hypervisor Edition of IBM products to cloud groups.
- Hypervisor
- A platform virtualization software that allows multiple operating
systems to run on a host computer.
- Open Virtualization Archive (OVA)
- A file format for storing virtual images that is used both by
the IBM Hardware
Appliances and by VMware ESXi. However, the files
are not interchangeable between these two systems.
- Part
- A part is a virtual image combined with configuration data and
scripts. A virtual image can have one or more parts. Parts are used
to expose different configuration templates for the virtual image.
For example, one part might expose basic configuration options, while
another part might expose more advanced configuration options.
- Pattern
- A pattern is used to combine one or more parts with zero or more
script packages. In the pattern editor, parts can be added to a canvas,
and script packages can be registered to run against those parts.
Parameters for a part can also be locked or unlocked so that they
become hidden or are revealed. A pattern is the object that is deployed
to the cloud.
- Script Package
- A compressed file containing a shell script (or other executable
file) and other configuration information that the IBM Hardware
Appliances can run on a virtual
system.
- Virtual Image
- In the IBM Hardware
Appliances, a virtual
image is an OVA file that has been loaded into the IBM Hardware
Appliances.
- Virtual Machine
- In the IBM Hardware
Appliances, a virtual
machine is a virtual image that has been deployed to a cloud group.
- Virtual System
- A deployed pattern that might contain one or more virtual machines.