International Business Machines Corporation
Master image for deploying workloads in a heterogeneous computing environment

Abstract:

A method for deploying workloads in a heterogenous computing environment having multiple hosts of multiple different types and/or multiple monitors of multiple different types is disclosed. The method includes selecting a master image for deployment of a workload, wherein multiple subimages are associated with the master image, and the subimages correspond to at least some of the different types of hosts and/or the different types of monitors such that the master image is usable to deploy the workload on at least one of the hosts. The method also includes determining a host on which to deploy the workload using the master image; determining a monitor of the host to manage the workload; determining a monitor type of the monitor; determining, by an orchestration engine and based on the monitor type, a subimage that supports the first monitor; and cloning the associated resources to the host to initiate the workload thereon.