Creating Your Own Private Cloud: Ezilla Toolkit -- For Coordinated Storage, Computing, and Networking Services

As Cloud computing-based technology has grown, so have the number of services offered over the Cloud. Due to this rapid growth in Cloud-based technology, service providers must be able to deploy Cloud service environments very quickly and very easily. To help resolving this issue, an Ezilla, deploy private Cloud toolkit, has been developed by the Pervasive Computing Team at the National Center for High-Performance Computing (NCHC). This effort of Ezilla integrates the de facto Cloud middleware, Web-based Operating System (WebOS), and coordinated Cloud infrastructure services (storage, computing, and networking) to form a virtual computer in distributed computing environment. With a click, Cloud users can easily customize and configure the specified virtual clusters via Ezilla toolkit. The main feature of Ezilla is simplifying a lot complexity of utilizing Clouds. Our goal is to make scientists or users painlessly run their jobs on Clouds.