MiriaPOD A distributed solution for virtual network topologies management

Abstract

Virtualization technologies have grown steadily in the testing and educational environments, owing to their low costs for deploying a wide variety of scenarios. Many applications that provide network node virtualization face scalability problems when larger topologies are created because of their high memory and processing requirements. Although such applications offer methods for load distribution on multiple machines, the distribution must be manually set up through a cumbersome and error prone process. The miriaPOD distributed virtualization application provides an easy to use graphical topology editor that relies on a broker service to deploy virtual network nodes on multiple machines. The extensibility and scalability of the project enables its use for assessing migration scenarios and running network technologies harmonization tests. We also propose integration possibilities with the Moodle platform, positioning the miriaPOD infrastructure as a vital tool for testing and teaching networking concepts.