• DocumentCode
    3145514
  • Title

    Cells: A Self-Hosting Virtual Infrastructure Service

  • Author

    Coles, A. ; Deliot, E. ; Edwards, Andrea ; Fischer, Anath ; Goldsack, P. ; Guijarro, J. ; Hawkes, R. ; Kirschnick, J. ; Loughran, S. ; Murray, Paul ; Wilcock, L.

  • Author_Institution
    Hewlett-Packard Labs., Bristol, UK
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    5-8 Nov. 2012
  • Firstpage
    57
  • Lastpage
    64
  • Abstract
    We describe the design and implementation of Cells, a novel multi-tenanted virtual infrastructure service. Cells has the unique property of being self-hosting: it operates its own management system within one of the tenant virtual infrastructures that it manages and therefore benefits from the same security, flexibility and scalability as other tenant services. Cells is also differentiated by its declarative interface for infrastructure configuration, and its fine-grained control of network and storage connections within and between tenant infrastructures.
  • Keywords
    cloud computing; Cells service; declarative interface; self-hosting virtual infrastructure service; tenant virtual infrastructure; Cloud computing; Hardware; IP networks; Routing; Security; Virtualization; cloud computing; infrastructure as a service;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC), 2012 IEEE Fifth International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Chicago, IL
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-4432-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/UCC.2012.17
  • Filename
    6424929