An approach for virtual appliance distribution for service deployment

Kecskeméti, Gábor and Terstyánszky, Gábor and Kacsuk, Péter and Németh, Zsolt (2011) An approach for virtual appliance distribution for service deployment. FUTURE GENERATION COMPUTER SYSTEMS-THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GRID COMPUT, 27 (3). pp. 280-289. ISSN 0167-739x

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2010.09.009

Abstract

Fulfilling a service request in highly dynamic service environments may require deploying a service. Therefore, the effectiveness of service deployment systems affects initial service response times. On Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud systems deployable services are encapsulated in virtual appliances. Services are deployed by instantiating virtual machines with their virtual appliances. The virtual machine instantiation process is highly dependent on the size and availability of the virtual appliance that is maintained by service developers. This article proposes an automated virtual appliance creation service that aids the service developers to create efficiently deployable virtual appliances — in former systems this task was carried out manually by the developer. We present an algorithm that decomposes these appliances in order to replicate the common virtual appliance parts in IaaS systems. These parts are used to reduce the deployment time of the service by rebuilding the virtual appliance of the service on the deployment target site. With the prototype implementation of the proposed algorithms we demonstrate the decomposition and appliance rebuilding algorithms on a complex web service.

Item Type:	ISI Article
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics and Computer Science > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science / számítástechnika, számítógéptudomány
Divisions:	Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems
Depositing User:	EPrints Admin
Date Deposited:	11 Dec 2012 16:04
Last Modified:	05 Feb 2014 15:48
URI:	https://eprints.sztaki.hu/id/eprint/5706

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