USING A WORKLOAD INFORMATION REPOSITORY - Mapping Businesses and Applications to Servers and Processes

Abstract

Abstract:Workloads are often defined differently within an organization, depending on the purpose of the analysis, making it difficult to compare analysis from different points-of-view. WIRAM (Workload Information Repository for Analysis and Modeling) is a preliminary implementation of a database repository to collect application and system information about workload groupings and their relationships. This information can then be used as a component of the ITIL CDB to define consistent workloads from business products to computer systems, regardless of the analysis or modeling tools used or the objectives of the analysis.