Dynamic Virtual Clusters in a Grid Site Manager
HPDC '03 Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing
VMPlants: Providing and Managing Virtual Machine Execution Environments for Grid Computing
Proceedings of the 2004 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
Virtualization for high-performance computing
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
Optimizing network virtualization in Xen
ATEC '06 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX '06 Annual Technical Conference
Automatic Service Deployment Using Virtualisation
PDP '08 Proceedings of the 16th Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing (PDP 2008)
Proceedings of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX 2006 International Conference on Middleware
Toward a programming model for service-oriented computing
ICSOC'05 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Service-Oriented Computing
Managing the configuration complexity of distributed applications in Internet data centers
IEEE Communications Magazine
A2A: An Architecture for Autonomic Management Coordination
DSOM '09 Proceedings of the 20th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management: Integrated Management of Systems, Services, Processes and People in IT
Journal of Systems and Software
Approaches towards dealing with complex systems configuration
OTM'10 Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on On the move to meaningful internet systems
Sedic: privacy-aware data intensive computing on hybrid clouds
Proceedings of the 18th ACM conference on Computer and communications security
Cloud blueprints for integrating and managing cloud federations
Software Service and Application Engineering
A model-driven approach for virtual machine image provisioning in cloud computing
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A Decision Table for the Cloud Computing Decision in Small Business
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Science of Computer Programming
A model view controller based Self-Adjusting Clustering Framework
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The combination of virtual server technology and the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) approach to utility computing promises to revolutionize the way in which distributed software services are deployed. Server virtualization technology can be used to capture complete reusable software stacks, shifting the complexity of middleware installation and configuration from deployment to packaging. IaaS clouds provide a set of interfaces for controlling virtual machines and configuring their hardware and network environment, substantially reducing the complexity of service provisioning. In this paper we identify and tackle a few of the remaining challenges in fulfilling the promise of radical simplification of distributed software service composition and deployment. We propose an approach and architecture for composition and deployment of virtual software services in cloud environments. We introduce a virtual appliance model which treats virtual images as building blocks for composite solutions. Virtual appliances use a port abstraction to negotiate their communication parameters. A solution architect creates a virtual solution model by composing virtual appliances and defining requirements on the environment in a cloud-independent manner. The virtual solution model is transformed to a cloud-specific virtual solution deployment model used to generate a parameterized deployment plan that can be executed by an unskilled user. We validated our approach through a prototype implementation demonstrating flexible composition and automated deployment in our local lab virtualization infrastructure and in Amazon EC2.