Title :
Using policies to drive autonomic management of virtual systems
Author :
Weng, Delei ; Bauer, Michael A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
Abstract :
Virtualization is essential to cloud computing as it can provide the means for flexible, reliable and manageable computing resources. At the same time, it raises new challenges for system management, including resource allocation for virtual machines (VMs), means for providing quality of service for applications, meeting organizational objectives, etc. This paper explores the use of policies to drive the autonomic management of virtualization systems. We describe an architecture for autonomically managing VMs and the applications running on those VMs based on policies, outline a prototype implementation and present present an analysis of its performance.
Keywords :
computer network reliability; fault tolerant computing; virtual machines; autonomic management; cloud computing; flexible computing resource; manageable computing resource; quality of service; reliable computing resource; resource allocation; system management; virtual machines; virtual system; virtualization system; Computer architecture; Generators; Monitoring; Quality of service; Servers; Time factors; Virtual machining; autonomic management; policies; virtual machine environments;
Conference_Titel :
Network and Service Management (CNSM), 2010 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Niagara Falls, ON
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8910-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8908-4
DOI :
10.1109/CNSM.2010.5691193
