Upnp-Based Discovery and Management of Hypervisors and Virtual Machines

The paper introduces a Universal Plug and Play based discovery and management toolkit that facilitates collaboration between cloud infrastructure providers and users. The presented tools construct a unified hierarchy of devices and their management-related services, that represents the current deployment of users’ (virtual) infrastructures in the provider’s (physical) infrastructure as well as the management interfaces of respective devices. The hierarchy can be used to enhance the capabilities of the provider’s infrastructure management system. To maintain user independence, the set of management operations exposed by a particular device is always defined by the device owner (either the provider or user).