
Foundations of Efficient Virtual Appliance Based Service Deployments
New Techniques for Virtual Appliance Delivery and Size Optimization in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds
Gabor Kecskemeti(Author)
LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Published on 9. February 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-3-8484-0383-7 (ISBN)
Description
Virtual appliances store the required information (e.g disk images) to instantiate a functional virtual machine on Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud systems. Large appliance size obstructs IaaS systems to deliver dynamic and scalable infrastructures that can host flexible solutions for services deployment. Thus, the current solutions suffer from several disadvantages: (i) the slow deployment time of services in virtual machines, and (ii) virtual appliances crafted by developers tend to be inefficient for deployment purposes. This book addresses problem (i) with a virtual appliance distribution technique that first identifies appliance parts and their internal dependencies. Then based on service demand it efficiently distributes the identified parts to virtual appliance repositories. Problem (ii) is targeted with the Automated Virtual appliance creation Service (AVS) that can extract and publish an already deployed service by the developer. This newly acquired appliance is optimized for service deployment time with the virtual appliance optimization facility that utilizes active fault injection to remove the non-functional parts of the appliance.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Germany
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 220 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
328 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-8484-0383-7 (9783848403837)
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Gabor Kecskemeti (Ph.D., University of Westminster) is the leader of the Cloud Computing research group of the Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems in MTA SZTAKI. He has published over 30 scientific papers (incl. 3 journal articles) about cloud and grid computing, particularly from the field of virtual appliance delivery in IaaS clouds.