On resource description capabilities of on-board tools for resource management in cloud networking and NFV infrastructures

Abstract

The rapid adoption of networks that are based on "cloudification" and Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) comes from the anticipated high cost savings of up to 70% in their build and operation. The high savings are founded in the use of general standard servers, instead of singlepurpose hardware, and by efficiency resource sharing through virtualisation concepts.In this paper, we discuss the capabilities of resource description of "on-board" tools, i.e. using standard Linux commands, to enable OPEX savings. We put a focus on monitoring resources on small time-scales and on the variation observed on such scales. We introduce a QoE-based comparative concept that relates guest and host views on "utilisation" and "load" for the analysis of the variations. We describe the order of variations in "utilisation" and "load" by measurement and by graphical analysis of the measurements. We do these evaluations for different host operating systems and monitoring tools.

Resource discovery for distributed computing systems: A comprehensive survey

“…XML, Web Services Description Language (WSDL) [148], GSDL [149], OASIS Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) [150][151][152] and [153] are some examples of attribute-based resource descriptions which have been used in many resource discovery solutions specially in web-based resource discovery protocols. WSDL is a set of instructions to describe the behavior, characteristics, and formats of services, particularly for web service providers.…”

“…UDDI uses a XML-based repository to provide policies and standards for service discovery which facilitate the process of resource advertisement and service publication. Tutschku et al, a recent work [153], is proposing a resource description method based on the capabilities of on-board Linux tools for describing resource utilization in cloud networking and NFV infrastructures. It aims to provide a description approach for dynamic attributes such as CPU load and usage.…”

HARD: Hybrid Adaptive Resource Discovery for Jungle Computing

“…UDDI uses a XMLbased repository to provide policies and standards for service discovery which facilitate the process of resource advertisement and service publication. Tutschku et al, a recent work [63], is proposing a resource description method based on the capabilities of on-board Linux tools for describing resource utilisation in cloud networking and NFV infrastructures. It aims to provide a description approach for dynamic attributes such as CPU load and utilization.…”

“…WSDL [61], OASIS UDDI [62] and [63] are some examples of attribute-based resource descriptions which have been used in many resource discovery solutions specially in web-based resource discovery protocols. WSDL is a set of instructions to describe the behavior, characteristics and formats of services, particularly for web service providers.…”

Characterizing Energy per Job in Cloud Applications

“…In addition, also in the experimental experience derived from the ECO 2 Clouds project on which this paper is based, the hosts of the same type can have somewhat different energy profiles [26], and therefore, it is not possible to base all analyses only on factory production data. Another factor of uncertainty that is emerging in monitored data centers is the intrinsic uncertainty in the monitoring environment itself, as for instance the imprecision of measurements under low loads [27] or the variability of cloud monitoring services [28].…”