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System management software for virtual environments

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Geoffroy Vallee,

Thomas Naughton,

Stephen L. ScottAuthors Info & Claims

CF '07: Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Computing frontiers

Pages 153 - 160

https://doi.org/10.1145/1242531.1242555

Published: 07 May 2007 Publication History

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Recently there has been an increased interest in the use of system-level virtualization using mature solutions such as Xen, QEMU, or VMWare. These virtualization platforms are being used in distributed and parallelenvironments including high performance computing. The use of virtual machines within such environments introduces newchallenges to system management. These include tedious tasks such as deploying para-virtualized host operating systems to support virtual machine execution or virtual overlay networks to connect these virtual machines. Additionally, there is the problem of machine definition and deployment,which is complicated by differentiation in the underlying virtualizationtechnology. This paper discusses tools for the deployment and management of both hostoperating systems and virtual machines in clusters. We begin with an overview of system-level virtualization and move on to a description of tools that we have developed to aid with these environments. These tools extend prior work in the area of cluster installation, configuration and management.

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Reviewer: Elliot Jaffe

System management, in the context of this paper, means the provisioning of operating and system software to clusters of computers. This problem has been addressed by many packages, notably Rocks and Open Service Container Architecture (OSCAR). The extension discussed in this paper is to provision virtual machines as implemented by VMWare, Xen, or QEMU. In such an installation, there are really two provisioning steps. First, the underlying virtualization platform must be installed and available. Only then can the target system be provisioned and deployed. The authors of this paper provide a very reasonable overview of the virtualization options (XEN and QEMU) and of the existing OSCAR system. They then describe their extensions, which enable OSCAR to provision virtualized systems. The new provisioning system is called OSCAR-V. I found this paper to be rather basic. There are no new theories or insights here. There is, however, good engineering work, and a nice description of how one might extend existing software past its original design point. Online Computing Reviews Service

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