  The Square Kilometre Array Telescope Manager (SKA TM) will be responsible for
assisting the SKA Operations and Observation Management, carrying out System
diagnosis and collecting Monitoring & Control data from the SKA sub-systems and
components. To provide adequate compute resources, scalability, operation
continuity and high availability, as well as strict Quality of Service, the TM
cyber-infrastructure (embodied in the Local Infrastructure - LINFRA) consists
of COTS hardware and infrastructural software (for example: server monitoring
software, host operating system, virtualization software, device firmware),
providing a specially tailored Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform
as a Service (PaaS) solution. The TM infrastructure provides services in the
form of computational power, software defined networking, power, storage
abstractions, and high level, state of the art IaaS and PaaS management
interfaces. This cyber platform will be tailored to each of the two SKA Phase 1
telescopes (SKA_MID in South Africa and SKA_LOW in Australia) instances, each
presenting different computational and storage infrastructures and conditioned
by location. This cyber platform will provide a compute model enabling TM to
manage the deployment and execution of its multiple components (observation
scheduler, proposal submission tools, M&C components, Forensic tools and
several Databases, etc). In this sense, the TM LINFRA is primarily focused
towards the provision of isolated instances, mostly resorting to virtualization
technologies, while defaulting to bare hardware if specifically required due to
performance, security, availability, or other requirement.
