Highly Available Resource Pooling Capabilities

Compute Pool Manager allows multiple compute appliances to be combined to form large capacity, highly available resource pools. Policy-based admission control and resource configuration simplifies application governance and routine adjustments.

• Managed Resource Pooling
  Pools consisting of multiple compute appliances can be configured to expanded capacity. Multi-level pools can be created to direct applications to any appliance in a pool, or to a preferred subset. Pools can be dynamically reconfigured for online expansion or re-assignment of compute capacity.

• Fault-tolerant Pool Management
  The compute pool remains available to applications and administrators upon any appliance going offline for any reason. Management elements fail over transparently, and launching against the pool as well as management of remaining appliances and applications is virtually uninterrupted.

• Policy Based Resource Controls
  User-defined policies define which applications are allowed to run, and can reserve memory and minimal processor cores to guarantee availability for applications. Intelligent placement of launched instances on appliances maximizes system utilization and availability for additional workloads.

• Policy Based Load-Balancing and Redundancy
  Placement of applications on appliances can be directed to optimize load balancing across compute appliances within the pool and to guarantee application redundancy.

• Complete Process Isolation
  JVM processes are completely isolated from accessing another’s data or taking its system resources.