Kumoi: A High-Level Scripting Environment for Collective Virtual Machines

We have designed and implemented a scripting environment called "Kumoi" for managing collective VMs in a large-scale data center. Kumoi is unlike other scripting environments because it exploits strong typing with type inference and high-level description. Kumoi introduces several advancem...

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Published in:2010 IEEE 16th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems pp. 322 - 329
Main Authors: Sugiki, A, Kato, K, Ishii, Y, Taniguchi, H, Hirooka, N
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Japanese
Published: IEEE 01.12.2010
Subjects:
Cloud Computing
Clusters
Data Center
DSL
Java
Management Shells
Object oriented modeling
Semantics
Software
Virtual Machines
Virtual machining
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ISBN:1424497272, 9781424497270
ISSN:1521-9097
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Summary:We have designed and implemented a scripting environment called "Kumoi" for managing collective VMs in a large-scale data center. Kumoi is unlike other scripting environments because it exploits strong typing with type inference and high-level description. Kumoi introduces several advancements, including treating virtual machines as first-class objects and decoupling the scripting model and its execution for hiding as many details as possible. We implemented Kumoi as an embedded domain-specific language based on Scala along with distributed agents running on each physical machine. Evaluation using example scripts showed that an administrator can more concisely write the instructions for performing complex VM lifecycle management tasks. Use of this environment should improve management efficiency and agility.
ISBN:1424497272
9781424497270
ISSN:1521-9097
DOI:10.1109/ICPADS.2010.71