Achieving Your Service Level Agreements with Stratus Cloud Workload Services

To set up Stratus Cloud Workload Services to deliver availability, the following steps are required.

1. Determine the initial set of applications to be deployed in the cloud, and describe the applications in detail.
2. Determine the levels of availability provided on those applications. Stratus suggests three as a starting point:
   1. Mission Critical
   2. Business Critical
   3. Commodity
3. Determine any secondary business rules or goals to enforce. These may include components such as performance, specific hardware descriptors (for example, blades); or even compliance-related descriptions.
4. Using the Stratus Management Console, create categories and tags describing the availability levels and business rules if they do not already exist.
5. Put an infrastructure in place that can support delivery of those availability levels and business rules.
6. Tag (assign tags individually or to a group) the infrastructure on the Hypervisors page. This creates the infrastructure mapping.
7. Tag the service catalog items on the Service Catalog Management page. This is achieved during the service catalog creation process or by editing the deployment package. All previously deployed applications or instances can be updated on the Deployed Applications page.