PLAN: Joint policy- and network-aware VM management for cloud data centers

Policies play an important role in network configuration and therefore in offering secure and high performance services especially over multi-tenant Cloud Data Center (DC) environments. At the same time, elastic resource provisioning through virtualization often disregards policy requirements, assuming that the policy implementation is handled by the underlying network infrastructure. This can result in policy violations, performance degradation and security vulnerabilities. In this paper, we define PLAN, a PoLicy-Aware and Network-aware VM management scheme to jointly consider DC communication cost reduction through Virtual Machine (VM) migration while meeting network policy requirements. We show that the problem is NP-hard and derive an efficient approximate algorithm to reduce communication cost while adhering to policy constraints. Through extensive evaluation, we show that PLAN can reduce topology-wide communication cost by 38 percent over diverse aggregate traffic and configuration policies

Системы следующего поколения для поддержки операционной деятельности инфокоммуникационной компании: учебное пособие

Информационные системы поддержки бизнеса и операций являются в настоящее время актуальной и востребованной темой в рамках управления инфокоммуникационными компаниями. В пособии изложены основы разработки и внедрения систем управления операционной деятельностью нового поколения (NGOSS), рассматриваются принципы NGOSS, лежащие в основе концепции методологии и инструменты. Учебное пособие предназначено для студентов, обучающихся по магистерской программе «Управление инфокоммуникациями» по направлениям 010300 «Математика. Компьютерные науки», 010400 «Информационные технологии» и 010500 «Прикладная математика и информатика», а также для студентов, аспирантов и работников, специализирующихся в области инфокоммуникационных технологий. Учебное пособие выполнено в рамках инновационной образовательной программы Российского университета дружбы народов, направление «Комплекс экспортоориентированных инновационных образовательных программ по приоритетным направлениям науки и технологий», и входит в состав учебно-методического комплекса, включающего описание курса, программу и электронный учебник

Energieeffizienz in Büroumgebungen

The increasing cost of energy and the worldwide desire to reduce CO2 emissions has raised concern about the energy efficiency of information and communication technology. Whilst research has focused on data centres recently, this thesis identifies office computing environments as significant consumers of energy. Office computing environments offer great potential for energy savings: On one hand, such environments consist of a large number of hosts. On the other hand, these hosts often remain turned on 24~hours per day while being underutilised or even idle. This thesis analyzes the energy consumption within office computing environments and suggests an energy-efficient virtualized office environment. The office environment is virtualized to achieve flexible virtualized office resources that enable an energy-based resource management. This resource management stops idle services and idle hosts from consuming resources within the office and consolidates utilised office services on office hosts. This increases the utilisation of some hosts while other hosts are turned off to save energy. The suggested architecture is based on a decentralized approach that can be applied to all kinds of office computing environments, even if no centralized data centre infrastructure is available. The thesis develops the architecture of the virtualized office environment together with an energy consumption model that is able to estimate the energy consumption of hosts and network within office environments. The model enables the energy-related comparison of ordinary and virtualized office environments, considering the energy-efficient management of services. Furthermore, this thesis evaluates energy efficiency and overhead of the suggested approach. First, it theoretically proves the energy efficiency of the virtualized office environment with respect to the energy consumption model. Second, it uses Markov processes to evaluate the impact of user behaviour on the suggested architecture. Finally, the thesis develops a discrete-event simulation that enables the simulation and evaluation of office computing environments with respect to varying virtualization approaches, resource management parameters, user behaviour, and office equipment. The evaluation shows that the virtualized office environment saves more than half of the energy consumption within office computing environments, depending on user behaviour and office equipment.Die steigenden Kosten von Energie und die weltweiten Bemühungen CO2-Emmissionen zu reduzieren, führt aktuell zu einer intensiven Untersuchung der Energieeffizienz von Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien. Während ein großer Teil der aktuellen Forschung sich auf Rechenzentren fokussiert, betrachtet diese Arbeit Büroumgebungen mit ihren Rechnern und dem verbindenden Netzwerk. Eine energieeffiziente Architektur wird vorgeschlagen, die auf die Virtualisierung und Konsolidierung von Diensten setzt, ohne auf zentralisierte Rechenzentrumshardware oder Thin Clients angewiesen zu sein

Next-generation network and service management

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A Generic Service Model for QoS Management (Service Management in Next Generation Network)

We introduce a generic service model aiming at ensuring Quality of Service management. This modelling approach has been proposed by the Next Generation Network and Service Management project. A fairly high integration level of the tools has been reached using object-oriented paradigm and Model Driven Interoperability approach. We provide an example of Quality of Service management through a Service Level Specification of the Virtual Private Network service. We consider important points to reflect the complexity introduced by the Service Level Agreement and Quality of Service management: reaction model, cooperation model and co-ordination model