TY - GEN
T1 - Virtual cluster management with Xen
AU - Bhatia, Nikhil
AU - Vetter, Jeffrey S.
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Recently, virtualization of hardware resources to run multiple instances of independent virtual machines over physical hosts has gained popularity due to an industry-wide focus on the need to reduce the cost of operation of an enterprise computing infrastructure. Xen is an open source hypervisor that provides a virtual machine abstraction layer which is very similar to the underlying physical machine. Using multiple physical hosts, each hosting multiple virtual machines over a VMM like Xen, system administrators can setup a high-availability virtual cluster to meet the ever-increasing demands of their data centers. In such an environment, the Xen hypervisor enables live migration of individual virtual machine instances from one physical node to another without significantly affecting the performance of the applications running on a target virtual machine. This paper describes a scalable Virtual Cluster Manager that provides such application agnostic cluster management capabilities to the system administrators maintaining virtual clusters over Xen powered virtual nodes.
AB - Recently, virtualization of hardware resources to run multiple instances of independent virtual machines over physical hosts has gained popularity due to an industry-wide focus on the need to reduce the cost of operation of an enterprise computing infrastructure. Xen is an open source hypervisor that provides a virtual machine abstraction layer which is very similar to the underlying physical machine. Using multiple physical hosts, each hosting multiple virtual machines over a VMM like Xen, system administrators can setup a high-availability virtual cluster to meet the ever-increasing demands of their data centers. In such an environment, the Xen hypervisor enables live migration of individual virtual machine instances from one physical node to another without significantly affecting the performance of the applications running on a target virtual machine. This paper describes a scalable Virtual Cluster Manager that provides such application agnostic cluster management capabilities to the system administrators maintaining virtual clusters over Xen powered virtual nodes.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=41549100532&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-540-78474-6_23
DO - 10.1007/978-3-540-78474-6_23
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:41549100532
SN - 3540784721
SN - 9783540784722
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 185
EP - 194
BT - Euro-Par 2007 Workshops Parallel Processing - HPPC 2007, UNICORE Summit 2007, and VHPC 2007, Revised Selected Papers
T2 - Euro-Par 2007 Workshops Parallel Processing - HPPC 2007, UNICORE Summit 2007, and VHPC 2007
Y2 - 28 August 2007 through 31 August 2007
ER -