A model-based proxy for unified IaaS management

Author

Yan, Shixing ; Lee, Bu Sung ; Singhal, Sharad

Author_Institution

HP Labs. Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

fYear

2010

fDate

25-29 Oct. 2010

Firstpage

15

Lastpage

20

Abstract

The use of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) has become more and more prevalent over the past few years. Many IaaS users face the challenge of managing different services and applications running on different IaaS providers. This requires them to interact with different APIs offered by the different providers, and increases the complexity of managing their services. In this paper, we address this problem by modeling IaaS using the DMTF Common Information Model (CIM) meta-model. Based on this model, a generic IaaS proxy was developed using Web2Exchange to enable users to easily manage services provided by variant IaaS providers in a heterogeneous environment. As an initial case study we have prototyped the unified IaaS proxy with capability to support management of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service.

Keywords

Internet; application program interfaces; cloud computing; API; Amazon elastic compute cloud service; DMTF common information model meta-model; Web2Exchange; infrastructure-as-a-service; model-based proxy; unified IaaS management; Clouds; Computational modeling; Computer integrated manufacturing; Conferences; Object oriented modeling; Standards; Virtual machining;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems and Virtualization Management (SVM), 2010 4th International DMTF Academic Alliance Workshop on

Conference_Location

Niagara Falls, ON

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9181-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-9179-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SVM.2010.5674747

Filename

5674747