FAST PLATFORM PROVISIONING SERVICE FOR CLOUD COMPUTING
A cloud-based system and method for provisioning IT infrastructure systems is disclosed. The system and method provided constructs an infrastructure generally comprised of a processing component supplying the computational capacity for a platform element, comprising one or more processing elements, memory and I/O subsystems, a storage component utilizing commodity disk drives and comprised of one or more physical storage devices, and a network component providing a high speed connection among processing elements and the processing component to storage components. In addition, the system and method provide all features required for a complete, immediately usable infrastructure system including registration of IP addresses and domain names so that the user may have the system completely up and running without the aid of an administrator.
1 . A system for creating an infrastructure-as-a-service virtual computing platform, comprising:
a graphical user interface for creating computing resources;
an image creation mechanism;
a resource creation module providing (i) roles, (ii) recipes or algorithms for creating particular types of computing resources; and
a service container module comprising a collection of one or more virtual appliances containing applications and services and a communication fabric accessing services.