March 2008 - gridvirt-wg

Technology Preview of the OpenNEbula (ONE) Virtual InfrastructureEngine
by Ignacio Martin Llorente 28 Mar '08

28 Mar '08

Dear colleagues, The dsa-research group (author of the widely used Globus GridWay Metascheduler) has released a Technology Preview of the OpenNEbula (ONE) Virtual Infrastructure Engine. OpenNEbula transforms a physical cluster into a flexible virtual infrastructure which dynamically adapts to the changing demands of a service workload. The members of this OGF WG will find relevant its support for the use cases described in the Grid and Virtualization Use Cases working draft. Regards, Ignacio M. Llorente ---------------------------- TECHNOLOGY PREVIEW OF THE OpenNEbula (ONE) VIRTUAL INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINE www.OpenNEbula.org The dsa-research group (http://dsa-research.org) is pleased to announce that a Technology Preview of the OpenNEbula (ONE) Virtual Infrastructure Engine is available for download under the terms of the Apache License, Version 2.0. ONE enables the dynamic deployment and re-allocation of virtual machines on a pool of physical resources, so extending the benefits of existing virtualization platforms from a single physical resource to a pool of resources, decoupling the server not only from the physical infrastructure but also from the physical location. The Technology Preview supports the Xen Hypervisor to provide an initial look at the features and capabilities of OpenNEbula. RELEVANT LINKS - Benefits and Features: http://www.OpenNEbula.org/doku.php?id=about - Documentation (Guides, Howtos and Use Cases): http://www.OpenNEbula.org/doku.php?id=documentation - Download: http://www.OpenNEbula.org/ddoku.php?id=software -- Ignacio M. Llorente, Full Professor (Catedratico): http://dsa-research.org/doku.php?id=people:llorente DSA Research Group: web http://dsa-research.org and blog http://blog.dsa-research.org Globus GridWay Metascheduler: http://www.GridWay.org OpenNebula Virtual Infrastructure Engine: http://www.OpenNebula.org

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RESERVOIR
by Wolfgang Reichert 22 Mar '08

22 Mar '08

Hi all, many of you have heard or are even involved in the RESERVOIR initiative. RESERVOIR - Resources and Services Virtualization without Barriers - is a European Community funded project. You can see an announcement and further description here: http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/23448.wss Or here: http://www.gridtoday.com/grid/2106993.html RESERVOIR activities and use cases There are multiple activity streams / tasks: - Project management - Overall architecture (led by IBM) - Virtual infrastructure (led by IBM) - Virtual environment management (led by Universidad Complutense de Madrid) - Service management (led by Telefonica) - etc. The project is based on real scenarios and use cases: - SAP business application - Telco application - e-Government - Utility computing - etc. How is this related to OGF? OGF is one of the RESERVOIR partners. It takes an advisory role w.r.t. to standardization. On OGF23 in Barcelona there will be a dedicated session for RESERVOIR. Leading researcher from IBM Haifa will present the objectives and activities. How is this related to gridvirt WG? The SAP use case, in particular, covers the use cases and scenarios we have described so far. Surely, all the RESERVOIR scenarios together will cover a much broader view and many more aspects. I expect that this project will bring virtualization and grid a big step forward. Much further than what our small work group could achieve. Regards Wolfgang Reichert Senior Technical Staff Member ??? SAP on IBM Systems ??? Mail: w_reichert(a)de.ibm.com IBM: +49-7031-162185 / Fax: -163545 SAP: +49-6227-764084 IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Martin Jetter | Geschäftsführung: Herbert Kircher Sitz der Gesellschaft: Böblingen | Registergericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 243294

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Open Nebula Virtual Infrastructure Engine
by Luis Gonzalez Abundes 06 Mar '08

06 Mar '08

Good day, I'm Luis Gonzalez, member of the DSA Research Group (dsa-research.org) at Universidad Complutense in Madrid which is developing the Open Nebula Virtual Infrastructure Engine (former Gridhypervisor). Currently we are part of the Reservoir European project, which is related to Virtualization and Grid, and so we have been following closely the use case draft and proposed API published on the gridforge project of this WG and other important standards like DMTF's proposals. In particular, we are working on the implementation of a VM manager (OpenNebula based) on top of a physical infrastructure (like clusters) that will manage the full life cycle of the VM from definition to execution and destruction, including things like scheduling of VMs according to some rules or policies based on host statistics (load-balancing, idle time...) and also provide capabilities like snapshotting, migration, live migration, deployment, etc. and creation of VM with their corresponding disk images in an image repository. One of our goals in the context of the RESERVOIR project is to define an open specification of an API for the management of VMs, so being the OpeNebula API an open-source reference implementation. We are wondering if the API proposed in the WG draft has a similar aim. Regards, -- Luis Gonzalez Abundes, Grid Technology Engineer/Researcher: DSA Research Group: http://dsa-research.org Globus GridWay Metascheduler: http://www.GridWay.org OpenNebula Virtual Infrastructure Engine: http://www.OpenNebula.org

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