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Global-scale Service Deployment in the XenoServer Platform

Abstract: 

We are building the XenoServer platform for global computing, a public infrastructure capable of safely hosting untrusted distributed services on behalf of uncooperative paying clients. Service components execute on one or more XenoServers within resource-managed Virtual Machines (VMs) which provide resource isolation, protection, and allow the execution of arbitrary applications and services.

To assist the deployment of services on the platform, we provide an effective solution that allows users to fully customize the VMs to be launched by specifying the operating system kernel image and distribution le-system to be used. Moreover, we have implemented mechanisms for facilitating easy and ef cient distribution of those kernel and lesystem images; users build their VMs' con gurations once and use the platform to ef ciently launch VMs on large numbers of machines around the world.

Initial experiences with our deployment infrastructure demonstrate that the platform provides a practical substrate for public global computing; we show how a complex service running on the user's own customized Linux environment can be deployed to multiple XenoServers around the world in under 45 seconds.

Evangelos Kotsovinos, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory

Tim Moreton, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory

Ian Pratt, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory

Russ Ross, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory

Keir Fraser, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory

Steven Hand, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory

Tim Harris, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK

BibTeX
@inproceedings {269515,
author = {Evangelos Kotsovinos and Tim Moreton and Ian Pratt and Russ Ross and Keir Fraser and Steven Hand and Tim Harris},
title = {Global-scale Service Deployment in the {XenoServer} Platform},
booktitle = {First Workshop on Real, Large Distributed Systems (WORLDS 04)},
year = {2004},
address = {San Francisco, CA},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/worlds-04/global-scale-service-deployment-xenoserver-platform},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = dec,
}
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http://usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/worlds04/tech/full_papers/kotsovinos/kotsovinos.pdf
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