Chapter: Task and service provision

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Service and Task Provisioning

Gabi Dreo Rodosek University of Federal Armed Forces Munich Werner-Heisenberg-Weg 39 85579 Neubiberg E-Mail: dreo@informatik.unibw-muenchen.de

Heinz-Gerd Hegering Leibniz Supercomputing Center Munich Barer Str. 21 803333 Munich E-Mail: hegering@lrz.de

The chapter will deal with following issues:

Discuss the problem area of service and task provisioning What is difficult and why How to identify the adequate resources to provision services and tasks upon? How to identify the necessary steps for the provisioning? Examples from various area (configuration mgmt, job scheduling, grid computing etc.) What is necessary to take into account during the specification of SLAs wrt. the dynamic service provisioning aspect? What is important and why?

Review of existing approaches (research, productive usage) with a discussion of drawbacks and benefits

How provisioning needs to interact with capacity planning (processes such as ITIL and tools), discuss capacity planning approaches (research, productive usage)