Infrastructure-as-a-service clouds in a professional environment

  • Authors:

  • Alex Cerier;Matt Visich;Chris Bork;Jon Brooks;Brian W. Perrault;Philip Haddad;Xinli Wang

  • Affiliations:

  • Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USA;Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USA;Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USA;Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USA;Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USA;Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USA;Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2011 conference on Information technology education
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

In order to investigate the possibility and evaluate the benefit for a middle-sized business to deploy its private cloud, two infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) clouds were built with ordinary hardware equipment by installing and configuring open-source cloud computing software Eucalyptus and Xen Cloud Platform (XCP). Advanced technologies and application programs, such as HybridFox, XenCenter and XenWebManager were integrated into the clouds to administer the clouds and manage their resources with graphical user interfaces (GUIs). The clouds were tested from a local computer and from a remote machine with Internet access. Different technologies were used for remote access to the clouds, including secure shell (SSH), Putty and Web browsers. Comparisons between those two clouds were performed in the aspects of management, administration, offerings, performance and system requirements. In addition, different designs of the cloud were discussed for specific purposes. This research was conducted in the settings of an undergraduate senior project. The results provide a good reference for people who want to build a cloud either for their business or for education purposes.