Cloud Infrastructure Management Toolkits

Comparison

Considered Toolkits:

Eucalyptus

Open Nebula

RHEV-M (Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager)

BoxGrinder

Eucalyptus Open Nebula RHEV-M BoxGrinder

XEN * VMWare *

KVM * EC2

HyperV Manager

Amazon S3 *(Walrus)

Storage Management

*(Walrus) *

Configurable Workload *

Private Cloud * Public Cloud Hybrid Cloud

Supported Virtual OS

Linux & Windows *

Linux & Windows Linux & WindowsLinux BasedRH Centered

Monitoring Frameworks Comparison

Considered Frameworks:

Lattice

Ganglia

Lattice Ganglia

Monitoring SystemProducer/Consumer

Each DataSource collects ProbesConsumers ask producers.

Daemons(gmetad & gmond)

Language Java C/C++

Metrics Few Implemented ProbesAllows User Probes

Lot of Built-in metricsAllows User defined metrics

Data distribution DHT Each node contains all cluster info

Data Distribution Methods IP Multicast, UDP(can be extended)

Tree of point-to-point TCP connections

Documentation Poor Good

Storage volatile RoundRobinDatabase(volatile)

Data Representation Custom Java Objects XML

Supported Platforms Platform Indipendent (Java) Unix-based

Conclusions

Preferred Tools:

Open Nebula for Cloud Management

Lattice for Monitoring