Infrastructure

Group Type: Working Group

Group Chair(s): Erol Bozak, Wolfgang Reichert

Group Email: gridvirt-wg@ogf.org (Subscribe) (Archive by date) (Archive by thread)

System virtualization breaks new grounds in isolation, consolidation, and migration of resources. In turn, Grids offer new paradigms for dissemination and aggregation of IT operations, often on a large scale. In this WG, we believe that system virtualization and Grids are complementary and highly synergistic in maximizing the yield of an IT infrastructure.

Specifically, this WG will endeavor:
(i) to verify that within existing Grid standards the request for systems with common capabilities might be satisfied by either physical systems, or by the infrastructure creating and managing virtual systems;
(ii) to document use cases wherein the Grid infrastructure is seen participating in the lifecycle of a virtual system (as opposed to the virtual system being entirely handled within traditional off-line system management);
(iii) to define one or more profiles that can be used by any Grid infrastructure. The following profiles are envisioned:
� Profile A: Get monitoring information from a virtual infrastructure management software. This includes both information about the virtual infrastructure itself as well as the underlying physical infrastructure
� Profile B: Manipulate the virtual infrastructure, e.g. increase memory, network bandwith, processing power, etc.)
� Profile C: Cause the suspend/resume of a virtual system;
� Profile D: Cause a virtual system to migrate from one location to another

We anticipate that the proposed activities will have a liaison to the DMTF's System Virtualization, Partitioning, and Clustering (SVPC) working group and the OGF CDDLM group.

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