Enabling the Deployment of Virtual Clusters on the VCOC Experiment of the BonFIRE Federated Cloud
R. Valín, Luis M. Carril, J. Mouriño, Carmen Cotelo, Andrés Gómez, Carlos Fernández Hernández · 2012
The BonFIRE project has developed a federated cloud that supports experimentation and testing of innovative scenarios from the Internet of Services research community. Virtual Clusters on federated Cloud sites (VCOC) is one of the supported experiments of the BonFIRE Project whose main objective is to evaluate the feasibility of using multiple C loud environments to deploy services which need the allocation of a large pool of CPUs or virtual machines to a single user (as High Throughput Computing or High Performance Computing). In this work, we describe the experiment agent, a tool developed on the VCOC experiment to facilitate the automatic deployment and monitoring of virtual clusters on the BonFIRE federated cloud. This tool was employed in the presented work to analyse the deployment time of all possible combinations between the available storage images and instance types on two sites that belong to the BonFIRE federated cloud. The obtained results have allowed us to study the impact of allocating different requests on the deployment time of a virtual machine, showing that the deployment time of VM instances depends on their characteristics and the physical infrastructure of each site.