The purpose of this article is to explain what can be some practices to model both virtualization and clustering. They are two examples of technical infrastructures that can be supported thanks to the resource architecture metamodel introduced in the 2009 SP2 release. The two examples will be developed based on this metamodel and so the sole prerequisite for such implementation is the use of the MEGA 2009 SP2 release. However, the use of a MEGA 2009 SP3 release is recommended because a larger number of items has been included in the MEGA Architecture add-on and among these items the “Virtual Server” artifact that will be used later in this paper.

In order to benefit from this new metamodel, the option “Business Process and Architecture Modeling / Infrastructure Modeling post-2009 SP2” must be activated (Refer to the “Tool / Option” menu command).

For a better understanding of this article, the reader must have some knowledge regarding architecture modeling and the practice of the MEGA Modeling tool. More information can be retrieved on the topics described below in the MEGA Architecture user guide.