Using BlobSeer Data Sharing Platform for Cloud Virtual Machine Repository

Niveau: Supérieur, Master
Using BlobSeer Data Sharing Platform for Cloud Virtual Machine Repository Master Thesis Tuan-Viet DINH Supervisors: Gabriel Antoniu, Luc Bougé ENS de Cachan, IFSIC, IRISA, KerData Project-Team June 4, 2010 Abstract The Cloud computing emerges as a new computing paradigm, which provides a reliable, flexible, QoS guaranteed IT infrastructure and services. In this context, users upload Virtual Machines (VMs) into a Cloud storage service, from which they are prop- agated on demand to the physical nodes on which they are supposed to run. It is there- fore important for the Cloud storage service to provide efficient support for VM storage in a context where a large number of clients may concurrently upload a large number of VMs, each of which may subsequently be needed by a large number of computing nodes. This paper addresses the problem of building such an efficient distributed repos- itory for Cloud Virtual Machines . To meet this goal, our approach leverages BlobSeer, a system for efficient management of massive data concurrently accessed at a large-scale as a storage back-end for the Cloud VM repository. As a case study, we consider the Nimbus Cloud environment, whose repository currently relies on the GridFTP high- performance file transfer protocol.

• cloud computing


• gridftp


• nimbus storage


• vms


• management service


• service


• cloud storage


• storage back-end


• globus gridftp