Enhancing Eucalyptus Community Cloud

Andrea Bosin, Matteo Dessalvi, Gian Mario Mereu, Giovanni Serra

Consorzio Cybersar, Cagliari, Italy.
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Sezione di Cagliari, Monserrato, Italy.
Università degli Studi di Cagliari, DRSI, Cagliari, Italy.

DOI: 10.4236/iim.2012.43008                

Abstract

In the last few years, the cloud computing model has moved from hype to reality, as witnessed by the increasing number of commercial providers offering their cloud computing solutions. At the same time, various open-source projects are developing cloud computing frameworks open to experimental instrumentation and study. In this work we analyze Eucalyptus Community Cloud, an open-source cloud-computing framework delivering the IaaS model and running under the Linux operating system. Our aim is to present some of the results of our analysis and to propose some enhancements that can make Eucalyptus Community Cloud even more attractive for building both private and community cloud infrastructures, but also with an eye toward public clouds. In addition, we present a to-do list that may hopefully help users in the task of configuring and running their own Linux (and Windows) guests with Eucalyptus.

Keywords

Cloud; IaaS; Eucalyptus; KVM; qcow2

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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