Building a private cloud with Eucalyptus

Author

Baun, Christian ; Kunze, Marcel

Author_Institution

Steinbuch Centre for Comput., Karlsruhe Inst. of Technol., Karlsruhe, Germany

fYear

2009

fDate

9-11 Dec. 2009

Firstpage

33

Lastpage

38

Abstract

Scientists very often have specific requirements regarding the IT services to support their research and very often standardized offerings of their service providers do not fit. At KIT we aim to build a private cloud to offer flexible infrastructure services that can easily be utilized and managed by end users according to their needs. With Eucalyptus, an open source solution exists that is fully compatible with Amazon EC2, S3 and EBS. This paper compares the performance of a cloud computing infrastructure implemented with Eucalyptus to Amazon EC2/S3/EBS and includes the lessons learned while building up a private cloud with Eucalyptus.

Keywords

Internet; public domain software; Amazon EC2/S3/EBS; Eucalyptus; IT services; cloud computing infrastructure; flexible infrastructure services; open source solution; private cloud; service providers; Application software; Application virtualization; Centralized control; Cloud computing; Computer networks; Open source software; Platform virtualization; Protocols; Virtual machining; Web services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

E-Science Workshops, 2009 5th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Oxford

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5946-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ESCIW.2009.5408006

Filename

5408006