Capacity Leasing in Cloud Systems using the OpenNebula Engine
Borja Sotomayor, Ruben Santiago Montero, Ignacio Martin Llorente, Ian T Foster · Library Open Repository (Universidad Complutense Madrid) · 2008
Clouds can be used to provide on-demand capacity as a utility. Although the realization of this idea can differ among various cloud providers (from Google App Engine 1 to Amazon EC2 2), the most flexible approach is the provisioning of virtualized resources as a service. These virtualization-based clouds, like Amazon EC2 or the Science Clouds 3 (which uses the Globus Virtual Workspace Service [4]), provide a way to build a