On-Demand Automated Fast Deployment and Coordinated Cloud Services

To meet the demand from the Cloud users, service providers have to provide such a service environment that can be deployed and provisioned quickly and easily. To help tackle such an issue, the Ezilla which is considered as a private Cloud toolkit, has been developed by the Per Comp Team in the National Center for High-performance Computing. The Ezilla integrates the de facto Cloud middleware, Web-based interface, and coordinated cloud infrastructure services such as storage, computing and networking services to form an integrated virtual computer. With the Ezilla toolkit, a virtual computer, which is configured specifically to meet the needs of an individual Cloud user is just one click away. The merit of the Ezilla is that it can simplify the complexity of the Cloud system for users to deploy more easily. Scientist as well as genera users can deploy the Cloud for their work with no need to deal with the painful process of building the Cloud system. The proposed Ezilla toolkit leverages genetic virtualization techniques, the clone OS toolkit - Clonezilla, and distributed file system, to orchestrate distributed computing resources and convert physical machine to virtual one dynamically.