Modeling and the Dynamic Systems Initiative

The modeling framework introduced in OM 2007 is one of the central components of Microsoft’s Dynamic Systems Initiative, which aims to develop model-based management technology to simplify system administration. Although Microsoft has had success forming an industry group to standardize the language used to describe such models, it will have more difficulty getting the industry to agree on the next step: a common library of core models compatible with Microsoft’s management software from which developers can create more sophisticated models.

The DSI Vision

The DSI is Microsoft’s long-term plan to enable its vision of the so-called dynamic data center, in which the following occurs:

• Services and applications are decoupled from physical resources, allowing them to be run where they will use physical resources most efficiently, with optimum availability and performance, and without regard to specific makes and models of hardware
• Software automatically discovers hardware and software