An integrated management system of virtual resources based on virtualization API and data distribution service

Abstract

Virtualization technology reduces the costs for server installation, operation, and maintenance and it can simplify the building of distributed systems. Currently, there are various types of virtualization technologies such as Xen, KVM, VMware, etc, and these technologies support various virtualization functions individually on heterogeneous platforms. Therefore, it is required to integrate and manage these heterogeneous virtualized resources in order to build a distributed system supporting current virtualization techniques. In this paper, we propose an integrated management system for managing heterogenous virtual resources. The proposed system is developed based on the following two techniques: a libvirt-based virtualization API and Data Distribution Service (DDS). Libvirt-based virtualization API is to extract information of heterogeneous virtual resources and to control them. DDS is to transmit in real-time the state information and control commands of virtualized resources.