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18.0 Utility Computing Hosting Centers
- 18.1 Utility Computing Overview
- 18.2 Resource Monitoring in a Utility Computing Environment
- 18.3 Resource Allocation and Environment Management
- 18.4 Provisioning Resources and Managing Dynamic Security
- 18.5 Service Level Agreements and QoS Guarantees
- 18.6 Tight Integration with Customer Resources
- 18.7 Enabling Manual Resource Access Requests
- 18.8 Automating Resource Access Requests
- 18.9 Standby Resources
- 18.10 Accounting, Costing, and Automated Billing
- 18.11 Utility Computing Example: Setting up a Test Center in 1 Hour or Less
A utility computing hosting center allows an organization to provide resources or services to customers where the resources or services are custom-tailored to the needs of the customer. Typically, supporting true utility computing requires creating a hosting center with one or more of the following capabilities:
- secure remote access
- guaranteed resource availability at a fixed time or series of times
- integrated auditing/accounting/billing services
- tiered service level (QoS/SLA) based resource access
- dynamic compute node provisioning
- full environment management over compute, network, storage, and application/service based resources
- intelligent workload optimization
- high availability, failure recovery, and automated re-allocation