Virtualizing Resources: Customer-Oriented Cross-Domain Monitoring for Service Grids

Abstract

After Computational Grids have lain the foundations for the functionalities and acceptance of Grid infrastructures, Service Grids may now set a new paradigm in their development and construction. We present an organizational model using different roles for each service layer, and discuss the possibility to integrate customer-oriented service chains, located in exclusively delegated virtual service domains, and delivered by multiple providers. This short paper briefly introduces an approach to realizing dynamic customer-oriented resource monitoring for Grids, and describes an ongoing effort to compose virtual monitoring instruments for individual Grid users.

Functional Analysis and Architecture for Interoperable and DVO-Speci?c Grid  Monitoring Services

“…in scenarios like virtual memory [21] or virtual LAN switching [22] (which in contrast to our scenario are homogenous environments). Correspondingly, we used policies in order to influence the behaviour (as pointed out in [23]) of the common Grid monitoring system in a ruledefined way, making its Grid monitoring service VO-aware [24]. This allows a selective tailoring of provisioned monitoring information for given customers or VOs, based on the allocation of the monitored resources and services.…”

Customer Service Management for Grid Monitoring and Accounting Data

“…Using a coupling to such a service, a customized complex of services and subservices can be provisioned dynamically [19]. Such complex services are able to provide a dedicated functionality which is needed by a given VO.…”