Approaches to Provisioning Network Topology of Virtual Machines in Cloud Systems

• Main Author: Shafaatdoost, Mani
• Format: Others
• Published: FIU Digital Commons 2012
• Subjects: Cloud Computing; virtual machines
• Online Access: http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/784; http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1897&context=etd

The current infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud systems, allow users to load their own virtual machines. However, most of these systems do not provide users with an automatic mechanism to load a network topology of virtual machines. In order to specify and implement the network topology, we use software switches and routers as network elements. Before running a group of virtual machines, the user needs to set up the system once to specify a network topology of virtual machines. Then, given the user’s request for running a specific topology, our system loads the appropriate virtual machines (VMs) and also runs separated VMs as software switches and routers. Furthermore, we have developed a manager that handles physical hardware failure situations. This system has been designed in order to allow users to use the system without knowing all the internal technical details.