MaaS advanced provisioning and reservation system

Abstract

The ongoing adoption of Cloud Computing at a fast rate has lead to an increase in the number of users and in the same time, in the level of complexity and performance. The interaction model is based on services offered to users at different levels. Metal-as-a-service (MaaS) platforms assure a higher level of performance when compared to typical Cloud platforms, but at the cost of a more complex provisioning system. An advanced reservation and provisioning system for MaaS should alleviate the problem of added complexity by accounting for the observed deployment time of the infrastructures. The paper studies the provisioning capabilities of the Bigstep Full Metal Cloud platform in order to allow the construction of such a system. The main issue addressed is oriented on cloud management automation, SLA and QoS management.