Snooze: An Autonomic and Energy-Efficient Management System for Private Clouds

Snooze is an open-source scalable, autonomic, and energyefficient virtual machine (VM) management framework for private clouds. It allows users to build compute infrastructures from virtualized resources. Particularly, once installed and configured it allows its users to submit and control the life-cycle of a large number of VMs. For scalability, the system relies on a self-organizing and healing hierarchical architecture. Moreover, it performs energy-efficient distributed VM management. Therefore, it implements features to monitor and estimate VM resource utilization (CPU, memory, network Rx, network Tx), detect and resolve overload/underload situations, perform dynamic VM consolidation through live migration, and finally power management to save energy. Last but not least, it integrates a generic scheduler which allows to implement any VM placement algorithm. This demo will expose the Snooze’s main properties (scalability, energy-efficiency, autonomy, and fault-tolerance) through its graphical interface.