CloudMaster: A Cloud Computing Management System of BigCloud

Abstract

Cloud Computing is rapidly becoming a critical technique to transform a large part of IT industry. China Mobile Communications Corporation, the biggest telecom company in China, launched BigCloud project to make research on cloud-based IT infrastructure, platform and applications. This paper introduces CloudMaster, the cloud management component of Bigcloud, that deploys, monitors and maintains BigCloud platform in more than 1000 PC servers. With this toolkit's support, only one person can maintian this big scale infrastructure easily. CloudMaster's design principles, architecture, and functions will be presented and management experiences will be shared in this paper.