Server 2 running IBM WebSphere , IBM DB2 Client, IBM Tivoli 

Provisioning Manager and prerequisite software, and IBM Dynamic 

Infrastructure for mySAP.

IBM Dynamic Infrastructure for mySAP running on the management server 

has the following components:

  Utility Business Services

Responsible for accounting, metering, rating, and subscription services

  Metrics service

Collects performance and workload measurement data from SAP 

systems. Data is passed on to the optimizer for analysis.

  Optimizer

This element interacts with Tivoli Provisioning Manager and dictates the 

allocation and deallocation of new application servers based on current 

workload of customer environments. 

A set of heterogeneous servers to be used by the provisioning operations to 

deploy additional application servers, depending on demand. 

These servers will be shared between the different customers' SAP systems. 

In Tivoli Provisioning Manager terms, these servers will make up the resource 

pool of servers for the provisioning operations. Decisions about when to 

provision or deprovision servers from the resource pool to a customer's SAP 

environment will be made by IBM Dynamic Infrastructure for mySAP based on 

the service level objectives and agreements defined for the customer.

The provisioning process is first triggered when a customer subscribes to an 

offering. Offerings have to be pre configured in IBM Dynamic Infrastructure for 

mySAP and will be discussed in  IBM Dynamic Infrastructure for mySAP 

configuration  on page 27. 

At a high level, as shown in Figure 1 on page 6, the following operations are 

performed at the time a subscription is being executed:

Dynamic Provisioning of SAP Environments using IBM DI for mySAP and Tivoli Provisioning Manager

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