== Carina Environment Manager == 

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name               : Carina Environment Manager
url_url            : https://github.com/blackberry/OpenNebula-Carina
brief description  : System to automatically deploy, scale and manage the availability of multi-VM application clusters according to policies such as time of day, load-based, service priority, failure events, or custom metrics.
type               : Tool
license            : Apache 2.0
opennebula version : 3.0 and 3.6
author             : Khalid Ahmed, Research In Motion
email              : khahmed@rim.com
organization_img150: {{ users:rim.png }}
keyword_tags       : environment, multi-VM, scale
last update_dt     : 2012-09-24
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== Description ==

The Carina Environment Manger allows you to automatically deploy, scale and manage the availability of multi-VM application clusters according to policies such as time of day, load-based, service priority, failure events, or custom metrics.

== Benefits ==

The following are benefits of the Carina project:

  * Faster / error-free deployment of multi-tier applications
  * Improve application response time through automated scaling based on workload
  * Reduce resource consumption by scaling down resources when not needed
  * Increased availability through automated re-creation of failed VMs
  * Ability to prioritize & differentiate services based on SLAs 

The Carina software can be installed in a management VM which users can connect through via a CLI or REST APIs.  The installation  instructions can be found [[https://github.com/blackberry/OpenNebula-Carina/blob/master/docs/INSTALL.md|here]].

The usage of features is described [[https://github.com/blackberry/OpenNebula-Carina/blob/master/docs/GETTING_STARTED.md|here]].