[one-ecosystem] OpenNebula Service Management Tool

[Tino Vazquez]

Dear users,

We are pleased to announce the availability of a new ecosystem
component, the OpenNebula Service Management Tool, which bridges the
gap between service and infrastructure management.

Clustered services are multi-tier services composed of several
components/tiers. They can be hosted as a group of interconnected
virtual machines in a cloud with specific deployment requirements. The
OpenNebula Service Manager is a component that enables end users to
deploy and manage the life cycle of their clustered applications. It
provides several atomic operations to all components in the
application to support the full life cycle management of the
application.

The OpenNebula Service Manager adds the following features to the
OpenNebula experience:

  * Management of multi-tier services with atomic operations (submit,
shutdown, cancel, stop, suspend, resume, delete, list and show)
  * Description of service components (VM) interdependencies through a
Service Description Language (SDL)
  * Non-intrusive install (no OpenNebula modification required)
  * Graphical representation of services
  * Multiple options for traversing the dependencies graph
  * New command line interface (oneservice)

Additional information:
  * Documentation on installation, configuration and usage [1]
  * Case study: Deployment of a multitier web app [2]
  * OpenNebula Service Management Tool Testing [3]

This component was developed as a student project by Waheed Iqbal as
part of Google Summer of Code 2010. The OpenNebula team will continue
to develop this component, building on Waheed’s excellent work over
the summer.

As always, we would love to hear your feedback on this.

Regards,

The OpenNebula Team

[1] http://opennebula.org/software:ecosystem:oneservice
[2] http://dev.opennebula.org/attachments/download/286/Case_Study_Multitier_Web_App.pdf
[3] http://dev.opennebula.org/attachments/download/287/oneservice_tests.pdf

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Constantino Vázquez Blanco | dsa-research.org/tinova
Virtualization Technology Engineer / Researcher
OpenNebula Toolkit | opennebula.org