CS 6343: CLOUD COMPUTING Term Project

Group A1  Project: IaaS cloud middleware ♦ Create a cloud environment with a number of servers, allowing users to submit their jobs, scale their jobs ♦ Make simple resource management solutions in determining where to place a VM and when to migrate them  TA: Shuai Zhang Midterm basic expectations (can be better than this)  Basic cloud platform ♦ One cluster ♦ Reasonable interface for job submission (Command line or GUI)  Allow users to create and submit VMs  Proper management of the VMs of each user (treat them as files)  One VM per job, and start it on a host based on a basic VM placement algorithm  Migrate VM if necessary based on a simple load balancing algorithm  Scale up/down VM if necessary based on a simple prediction algorithm  Management component ♦ Basic monitoring of the VMs, the hosts  CPU, memory, diskIO, networkIO, etc.  Simple interface for midterm Final project additions (can be better than this)  Improve the midterm outcome ♦ Better interface, better algorithms, more robust, etc.  Cloud platform ♦ Support multiple clusters (2 clusters, use the router on top of the switches) ♦ Support the submission of a job with multiple VMs  Interface for specifying the VMs under one job  The VMs of one job are likely to communicate with each other, how to handle their IP address assignments? How to prevent the VMs from other jobs communicating with the VMs of this job ♦ Placement and load balancing algorithms should consider placing the VMs close to each other  Management component ♦ Allow admin to specify what are to be observed on one or more panels ♦ Add and remove hosts and VMs ♦ Migrate and scale VMs