GENICloud and transcloud

  • Authors:
  • Andy Bavier;Yvonne Coady;Tony Mack;Chris Matthews;Joe Mambretti;Rick McGeer;Paul Mueller;Alex Snoeren;Marco Yuen

  • Affiliations:
  • Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA;University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada;Princeton University, Princeton , NJ, USA;University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada;Northwestern University, Northwestern, USA;Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Hewlett-Packard, USA;TU-Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany;UCSD, San Diego, CA, USA;Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2012 workshop on Cloud services, federation, and the 8th open cirrus summit
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

In this paper, we argue that federation of cloud systems requires a standard API for users to create, manage, and destroy virtual objects, and a standard naming scheme for virtual objects. We introduce an existing API for this purpose, the Slice-Based Federation Architecture, and demonstrate that it can be implemented on a number of existing cloud management systems. We introduce a simple naming scheme for virtual objects, and discuss its implementation.