1. Cloud Infrastructure Management Toolkits Comparison Considered Toolkits: Eucalyptus Open Nebula RHEV-M (Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager) BoxGrinder

2. EucalyptusOpen NebulaRHEV-MBoxGrinder XEN  **  VMWare **    KVM  **  EC2    HyperV Manager    Amazon S3  * (Walrus)   Storage Management  * (Walrus)  **  Configurable Workload   **  Private Cloud  **  Public Cloud    Hybrid Cloud    Supported Virtual OSLinux & Windows *Linux & Windows Linux Based RH Centered

3. Monitoring Frameworks Comparison Considered Frameworks: Lattice Ganglia

4. LatticeGanglia Monitoring System Producer/Consumer Each DataSource collects Probes Consumers ask producers. Daemons (gmetad & gmond) LanguageJavaC/C++ Metrics Few Implemented Probes Allows User Probes Lot of Built-in metrics Allows User defined metrics Data distributionDHTEach node contains all cluster info Data Distribution Methods IP Multicast, UDP (can be extended) Tree of point-to-point TCP connections DocumentationPoorGood Storagevolatile RoundRobinDatabase (volatile) Data RepresentationCustom Java ObjectsXML Supported PlatformsPlatform Indipendent (Java)Unix-based

5. Conclusions Preferred Tools: Open Nebula for Cloud Management Lattice for Monitoring