Current unresolved challenges and issues in next generation cloud deployments in a virtual environment
Muhammad Adnan Malik · NORA - Norwegian Open Research Archives · 2013
The cloud computing technology has recently gain allot of attention both in public and private sectors. The technology is expected to grow up dramatically in the next 3-5 years. The deployment of next generation clouds has increased in public and private sectors. There are plenty of those who want to deploy a cloud locally, in their datacenters. Cost, less space in datacenters, increase in utility bills, management and efforts to prepare system for cloud are well-known hurdles stopping to deploy a cloud locally. Deploying a cloud in a virtual environment can play an important role to overcome these hurdles. Ubuntu cloud infrastructure is an easy, simple and fast approach to deploy a next generation open source cloud in a real environment. This thesis finds the challenges and issues while considering such an approach in a virtual environment. It also finds the possible reason(s) of occurrence, possible solution(s) to the found challenges and issues and implements the found solutions. To make an easy cloud deployment, this thesis helps to prepare a fully automated virtual environment for deploying cloud. And also makes automation possible in a certain context. Most of the solution has also been automated into the scripts.