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First Workshop on Real, Large Distributed Systems — Abstract
Global-scale Service Deployment in the XenoServer Platform
Evangelos Kotsovinos, Tim Moreton, Ian Pratt, Russ Ross,
Keir Fraser, and Steven Hand, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory; Tim Harris, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK
Abstract
We are building the XenoServer platform for global computing,
a public infrastructure capable of safely hosting untrusted
distributed services on behalf of uncooperative paying
clients. Service components execute on one or more
XenoServers within resource-managed Virtual Machines
(VMs) which provide resource isolation, protection, and allow
the execution of arbitrary applications and services.
To assist the deployment of services on the platform, we
provide an effective solution that allows users to fully customize
the VMs to be launched by specifying the operating
system kernel image and distribution le-system to be used.
Moreover, we have implemented mechanisms for facilitating
easy and ef cient distribution of those kernel and lesystem
images; users build their VMs' con gurations once
and use the platform to ef ciently launch VMs on large
numbers of machines around the world.
Initial experiences with our deployment infrastructure
demonstrate that the platform provides a practical substrate
for public global computing; we show how a complex service
running on the user's own customized Linux environment
can be deployed to multiple XenoServers around the
world in under 45 seconds.
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