Scheduling of Large-scale Virtualized Infrastructures

Flavien QUESNEL, Postdoc in Computer Science, E?cole des Mines, Nantes, France.

List of Abbreviations xi

Introduction xiii

Part 1 Management of Distributed Infrastructures 1

Chapter 1 Distributed Infrastructures Before the Rise of Virtualization 3

Chapter 2 Contribution of Virtualization 13

Chapter 3 Virtual Infrastructure Managers Used in Production 27

Part 2 Toward a Cooperative and Decentralized Framework to Manage Virtual Infrastructures 49

Chapter 4 Comparative Study Between Virtual Infrastructure Managers and Distributed Operating Systems 51

Chapter 5 Dynamic Scheduling of Virtual Machines 67

Part 3 DVMS, A Cooperative and Decentralized Framework to Dynamically Schedule Virtual Machines 83

Chapter 6 DVMS: A Proposal to Schedule Virtual Machines in a Cooperative and Reactive Way 85

Chapter 7 Experimental Protocol and Testing Environment 101

Chapter 8 Experimental Results and Validation of DVMS 113

Chapter 9 Perspectives Around DVMS 133

Conclusion 141

Bibliography 145

List of Tables 157

List of Figures 159

Index 163