Towards Efficient Virtual Appliance Delivery with Minimal Manageable Virtual Appliances

Kecskeméti, Gábor; Terstyánszky, Gábor; Kacsuk, Péter; Németh, Zsolt

doi:10.1109/tsc.2013.12

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“…To meet the demands of highly dynamic service environments, appliance distribution is optimized by automatically decomposing and replicating appliances. To support the rebuilding of decomposed VAs, the ASD requires appliances to embed minimal manageable virtual appliances (MMVA - [15]). These special appliances meet the following properties:…”

Section: Meta-brokering Approach For Federating Cloudsmentioning

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Enhancing Federated Cloud Management with an Integrated Service Monitoring Approach

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Cloud Computing enables the construction and the provisioning of virtualized service-based applications in a simple and cost effective outsourcing to dynamic service environments. Cloud Federations envisage a distributed, heterogeneous environment consisting of various cloud infrastructures by aggregating different IaaS provider capabilities coming from both the commercial and the academic area. In this paper, we introduce a federated cloud management solution that operates the federation through utilizing cloudbrokers for various IaaS providers. In order to enable an enhanced provider selection and inter-cloud service executions, an integrated monitoring approach is proposed which is capable of measuring the availability and reliability of the provisioned services in different providers. To this end, a minimal metric monitoring service has been designed and used together with a service monitoring solution to measure cloud performance. The transparent and cost effective operation on commercial clouds and the capability to simultaneously monitor both private and public clouds were the major design goals of this integrated cloud monitoring approach. Finally, the evaluation of our proposed solution is pre-

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Section: Meta-brokering Approach For Federating Cloudsmentioning

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Enhancing Federated Cloud Management with an Integrated Service Monitoring Approach

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“…Second, the architecture also supports developers to create appliances more suitable for highly dynamic environments via minimal manageable virtual appliances [32] that they can use as the base of their appliance. This appliance provides management interfaces offering package installation, configuration and removal operations.…”

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“…This approach is the only practical solution in EC2 like IaaS systems, because it does not require the repeated upload of the reduced virtual appliances. This article applies the management interfaces for active fault injection only, the detailed definition of these interfaces and their further usage options are discussed in [32].…”

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Virtual Appliance Size Optimization with Active Fault Injection

Kecskeméti

Terstyánszky

Kacsuk

2012

IEEE Trans. Parallel Distrib. Syst.

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Abstract-Virtual appliances store the required information to instantiate a functional virtual machine on Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud systems. Large appliance size obstructs IaaS systems to deliver dynamic and scalable infrastructures according to their promise. To overcome this issue, this article offers a novel technique for virtual appliance developers to publish appliances for the dynamic environments of IaaS systems. Our solution achieves faster virtual machine instantiation by reducing the appliance size while maintaining its key functionality. The new virtual appliance optimization algorithm identifies the removable parts of the appliance. Then, it applies active fault injection to remove the identified parts. Afterwards, our solution assesses the functionality of the reduced virtual appliance by applying the -appliance developer provided -validation algorithms. We also introduce a technique to parallelize the fault injection and validation phases of the algorithm. Finally, the prototype implementation of the algorithm is discussed to demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed algorithm through the optimization of two well-known virtual appliances. Results show that the algorithm significantly decreased virtual machine instantiation time and increased dynamism in IaaS systems.

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“…To allow infrastructure scaling, applications and services are packed into variable Virtual Machines (VMs) deployed in IaaS cloud [1]. VMs are created by instantiating VM images [2][3] that encapsulate the required applications or services with their support environment (e.g., an operation system and several applications/software).…”

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Minimizing Latency in Fetching Virtual Machine Images Based on Multi-point Collaborative Approach

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Lin

Peng

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2013 IEEE International Conference on Green Computing and Communications and IEEE Internet of Things and IEEE Cyber, Physical A

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Cloud computing centers enable to provision diverse virtual machine (VM) in an elastic and scalable manner. VMs are created by instantiating VM images that encapsulate the required applications or services with their support environment. The multi-gigabyte VM images are hosted in the central image repository, while hosting centers are geographically dispersed. Thus, to fetch a GigaByte sized VM image from a repository over the Internet is time consuming. To address this problem, we first take advantage of high degree of commonality of VM images, and divide the VM images into fine-grain chunks by designing a mixed chunk scheme. And then, based on chunk-level sharing among different images, we propose a novel VM images acquisition scheme based on multi-point collaboration (MPCA), which minimizes latency in fetching VM images. Our experiments show that our proposed scheme can largely reduce request service time. Moreover, it can efficiently decentralize network traffic load, reduce the contention result from additional traffic introduced in the network, especially when traffic load is heavy.

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Towards Efficient Virtual Appliance Delivery with Minimal Manageable Virtual Appliances

Cited by 7 publications

References 17 publications

Enhancing Federated Cloud Management with an Integrated Service Monitoring Approach

Enhancing Federated Cloud Management with an Integrated Service Monitoring Approach

Virtual Appliance Size Optimization with Active Fault Injection

Minimizing Latency in Fetching Virtual Machine Images Based on Multi-point Collaborative Approach

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