A management platform for Eucalyptus-based IaaS

Abstract

Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), it is typically a platform virtualization environment as a service, which deploys IT infrastructure as virtual machines in a provider's data center. There are many open source cloud platforms such as Eucalyptus, Open Nebula, oVirt, Enomaly ECP etc, that can help to transform enterprises' or organizations' existing IT infrastructure into a private or hybrid cloud. With the growing popularity of IaaS, resource monitoring and VM (Virtual Machine) monitoring has became more and more important in cloud management. But all those open source cloud platforms cannot satisfy the requirement of cloud environment monitoring and management completely. In this paper, we present a novel IaaS management platform based on Eucalyptus, which uses Libvirt management library, SNMP (simple network management protocol) and VMM (Virtual Machine Monitor) to get more abilities to manage and monitor the cloud. This platform provides some new features which can manage and monitor resources and VM status in the cloud environment and give a good user experience.