UNIT 5

Market Based Management of Cloud

Unit-05/Lecture-01
Market Based Management of Clouds
As consumers rely on Cloud providers to supply all their computing needs, they will
require specific QoS to be maintained by their providers in order to meet their objectives
and sustain their operations. Cloud providers will need to consider and meet different
QoS parameters of each individual consumer as negotiated in specific SLAs. To achieve
this, Cloud providers can no longer continue to deploy traditional system-centric resource
management architecture that do not provide incentives for them to share their
resources and still regard all service requests to be of equal importance. Instead, market-
oriented resource management is necessary to regulate the supply and demand of Cloud
resources at market equilibrium, provide feedback in terms of economic incentives for
both Cloud consumers and providers, and promote QoS-based resource allocation
mechanisms that differentiate service requests based on their utility. Figure shows the
high-level architecture for supporting market-oriented resource allocation in Data Centers
and Clouds.

There are basically four main entities involved:

Users/Brokers: Users or brokers acting on their behalf submit service requests from
anywhere in the world to the Data Center and Cloud to be processed.
SLA Resource Allocator: The SLA Resource Allocator acts as the interface between the
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Data Center/Cloud service provider and external users/brokers. It requires the interacti on
of the following mechanisms to support SLA-oriented resource management:
Service Request Examiner and Admission Control : When a service request is first
submitted, the Service Request Examiner and Admission Control mechanism
interprets the submitted request for QoS requirements before determining
whether to accept or reject the request. Thus, it ensures that there is no
overloading of resources whereby many service requests cannot be fulfilled
successfully due to limited resources available. It also needs the latest status
information regarding resource availability (from VM Monitor mechanism) and
workload processing (from Service Request Monitor mechanism) in order to make
resource allocation decisions effectively. Then, it assigns requests to VMs and
determines resource entitlements for allocated VMs.
Pricing: The Pricing mechanism decides how service requests are charged. For
instance, requests can be charged based on submission time (peak/off-peak),
pricing rates (fixed/changing) or availability of resources (supply/demand). Pricing
serves as a basis for managing the supply and demand of computing resources
within the Data Center and facilitates in prioritizing resource allocations effectively.
Accounting: The Accounting mechanism maintains the actual usage of resources
by requests so that the final cost can be computed and charged to the users. In
addition, the maintained historical usage information can be utilized by the Service
Request Examiner and Admission Control mechanism to improve resource allocation
decisions.
VM Monitor: The VM Monitor mechanism keeps track of the availability of VMs
and their resource entitlements.
Dispatcher: The Dispatcher mechanism starts the execution of accepted service
requests on allocated VMs.
Service Request Monitor: The Service Request Monitor mechanism keeps track of
the execution progress of service requests.

VMs: Multiple VMs can be started and stopped dynamically on a single physical machine
to meet accepted service requests, hence providing maximum flexibility to configure
various partitions of resources on the same physical machine to different specific
requirements of service requests. In addition, multiple VMs can concurrently run
applications based on different operating system environments on a single physical
machine since every VM is completely isolated from one another on the same physical
machine.
Physical Machines: The Data Center comprises multiple computing servers that provide
resources to meet service demands.

Commercial offerings of market-oriented Clouds must be able to:

support customer-driven service management based on customer profiles and
requested service requirements,
define computational risk management tactics to identify, assess, and manage
risks involved in the execution of applications with regards to service requirements
and customer needs,
derive appropriate market-based resource management strategies that
encompass both
customer-driven service management and computational risk management to
sustain SLA-oriented resource allocation,
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incorporate autonomic resource management models that effectively self-manage

changes in service requirements to satisfy both new service demands and existing
service obligations, and
leverage VM technology to dynamically assign resource shares according to
service requirements.

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Unit-01/Lecture-02

Federated Clouds/Inter Cloud

The terms cloud federation and InterCloud, often used interchangeably, convey the general
meaning of an aggregation of cloud computing providers that have separate administrative
domains. It is important to clarify what these two terms mean and how they apply to cloud
computing.

The term federation implies the creation of an organization that supersedes the decisional and
administrative power of the single entities and that acts as a whole. Within a cloud computing
con-text, the word federation does not have such a strong connotation but implies that there
are agree- ments between the various cloud providers, allowing them to leverage each others
services in a privileged manner. A definition of the term cloudfederation was given by Reuven
Cohen,founder and CTO of EnomalyInc :
Cloud federation manages consistency and access controls when two or more independent geo-
graphically distinct Clouds share either authentication, files, computing resources, command
and control or access to storage resources.

InterCloud is a term that is often used interchangeably to express the concept of

Cloudfederation. It was introduced by Cisco for expressing a composition of clouds that are
interconnected by means of open standards to provide a universal environment that leverages
cloud computing services. By mimicking the Internet term, often referred as the network of
networks, InterCloud represents a Cloud of Clouds and therefore expresses the same concept
of federating together clouds that belong to different administrative organizations. The term
InterCloud refers mostly to a global vision in which interoperability among different cloud
providers is governed by standards, thus creating an open platform where applications can shift
workloads and freely compose services from different sources. On the other hand, the concept
of a cloud federation is more general and includes ad hoc aggregations between cloud providers
on the basis of private agreements and proprietary interfaces.

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Unit-01/Lecture-03
Cloud Federation Stack

Creating a cloud federation involves research and development at different levels: conceptual,
logical and operational, and infrastructural. Figure 11.7 provides a comprehensive view of the
challenges faced in designing and implementing an organizational structure that coordinates
together cloud services that belong to different administrative domains and makes them operate
within a context of a single unified service middleware. Each cloud federation level pres ents
different challenges and operates at a different layer of the IT stack. It then requires the use of
different approaches and technologies. Taken together, the solutions to the challenges faced at
each of these levels constitute a reference model for a cloud federation.
The conceptual level addresses the challenges in presenting a cloud federation as a favorable
solution with respect to the use of services leased by single cloud providers. In this level it is
important to clearly identify the advantages for either service providers or service consumers in
joining a federation and to delineate the new opportunities that a federated environment creates
with respect to the single-provider solution. The conceptual level addresses the challenges in
presenting a cloud federation as a favorable soluion with respect to the use of services leased by
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single cloud providers. In this level it is important to clearly identify the advantages for either
service providers or service consumers in joining a federation and to delineate the new
opportunities that a federated environment creates with respect to the single-provider solution.
Elements of concern at this level are:
Motivations for cloud providers to join a federation
Motivations for service consumers to leverage a federation
Advantages for providers in leasing their services to other providers
Obligations of providers once they have joined the federation
Trust agreements between providers Transparency versus consumers
The logical and operational level of a federated cloud identifies and addresses the challenges in
devising a framework that enables the aggregation of providers that belong to different
administrative domains within a context of a single overlay infrastructure, which is the cloud
federation. At this level, policies and rules for interoperation are defined. Moreover, this is the
layer at which decisions are made as to how and when to lease a service toor to leverage a
service from another provider. The logical component defines a context in which agreements
among providers are settled and services are negotiated, whereas the operational component
characterizes and shapes the dynamic behavior of the federation as a result of the single
providers choices. This is the level where MOCC is implemented and realized.
The infrastructural level addresses the technical challenges involved in enabling heterogeneous
cloud computing systems to interoperate seamlessly. It deals with the technology barriers that
keep separate cloud computing systems belonging to different administrative domains. By having
standardized protocols and interfaces, these barriers can be overcome. In other words, this level
for the federation is what the TCP/IP stack is for the Internet: a model and a reference
implementation of the technologies enabling the interoperation of systems. The infrastructural
level lays its foundations in the IaaS and PaaS layers of the Cloud Computing Reference Model.
Services for interoperation and interface may also find implementation at the Saa S level, especially
for the realization of negotiations and of federated clouds.
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Unit-01/Lecture-04
Third Party Cloud Services
One ofthekeyelementsofcloudcomputingisthepossibilityofcomposingservicesthatbelongto

differentvendorsorintegratingthemintoexistingsoftwaresystems.Theservice-orientedmodel, which

isthebasisofcloudcomputing,facilitatessuchanapproachandprovidestheopportunity for

developinganewclassofservicesthatcanbecalled third-partycloudservices. Thesearetheresult of

adding value to preexisting cloud computing services, thus providing customers with a dif -

ferent and more sophisticated service. Added value can be either created by smartly

coordinating existing services or implementing additional features on top of an existing

basic service. Besides this general definition, there is no specific feature that

characterizes this class of service. Therefore, in this section, we describe some examples of

third-party services.

MetaCDN [158] providesuserswithaContentDeliveryNetwork(CDN)[159][servicebyleverag- ing

andharnessingtogetherheterogeneousstorageclouds.Itimplementsasoftwareoverlaythat
coordinatestheserviceofferingsofdifferentcloudstoragevendorsandusesthemasdistributed
elasticstorageonwhichtheusercontentisstored.MetaCDNprovidesuserswiththehigh-level
servicesofaCDNforcontentdistributionandinteractswiththelow-levelinterfacesofstorage
cloudstooptimallyplacetheusercontentinaccordancewiththeexpectedgeographyofits
demand.Byleveragingthecloudasastorageback-enditmakesacomplexandgenerally expensive
contentdeliveryserviceavailabletosmallenterprises. SpotCloud has
alreadybeenintroducedasanexampleofavirtualmarketplace.Byactingasan
intermediaryfortradingcomputeandstoragebetweenconsumersandserviceproviders,itprovides the
twopartieswithaddedvalue.Forserviceconsumers,itactsasamarketdirectorywherethey can
browseandcomparedifferentIaaSserviceofferingsandselectthemostappropriatesolution for
them.Forserviceprovidersitconstitutesanopportunityforadvertisingtheirofferings.Inaddi- tion,
itallowsuserswithavailablecomputingcapacitytoeasilyturnthemselvesintoserviceprovi - ders
bydeployingtheruntimeenvironmentrequiredbySpotCloudontheirinfrastructure. SpotCloud is not only an

enabler for IaaS providers and resellers, but its intermediary role also includes a complete

bookkeeping of the transactions associated with the use of resources. Users deposit credit on
their SpotCloud account and capacity sellers are paid following the usual pay- per-use model .

SpotCloud retains a percentage of the amount billed to the user. Moreover, by leveraging a
uniform runtime environment and virtual machine management layer, it provides users with a

vendor lock-in-free solution, which might be strategic for specific applications. The two

previously presented examples give an idea of how different in nature third-party ser- vices

can be: MetaCDN provides end users with a different service from the simple cloud storage

offerings; SpotCloud does not change the type of service that is finally offered to end

users, but it enriches it with additional features that result in more effective use of it.

These are just two examples of the market segment that is now developing as a result of the
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consolidation of cloud computing as an approach to a more intelligent use of IT resources.

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Unit-01/Lecture-05

Google App Engine

Google AppEngine is a PaaS implementation that provides services for developing and hostin g
scalable Web applications. AppEngine is essentially a distributed and scalable runtime
environment that leverages Googles distributed infrastructure to scale out applications
facing a large number of requests by allocating more computing resou rces to them and
balancing the load among them. The runtime is completed by a collection of services that
allow developers to design and implement applications that naturally scale on AppEngine.
Developers can develop applications in Java, Python, and Go, a new programming language
developed by Google to simplify the development of Web applications. Application usage of
Google resources and services is metered by AppEngine, which bills users when their
applications finish their free quotas.
9.2.1.1Infrastructure
AppEngine hosts Web applications, and its primary function is to serve users requests
efficiently. To do so, AppEngines infrastructure takes advantage of many servers available
within Google datacenters. For each HTTP request, AppEngine locates the server s hosting the
application that pro- cesses the request, evaluates their load, and, if necessary, allocates
additional resources (i.e., ser- vers) or redirects the request to an existing server. Th e
particular design of applications, which does not expect any state information to be
implicitly maintained between requests to the same application, simplifies the work of th e
infrastructure, which can redirect each of the requests to any of the servers hosting the
target application or even allocate a new one.
The infrastructure is also responsible for monitoring application performance and collectin g
sta- tistics on which the billing is calculated.
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UNIT 1/LECTURE 6

6 Microsoft Azure ,
AppEngine, a framework for developing scalable Web applications, leverages Googles
infrastruc- ture. The core components of the service are a scalable and sandboxed runtime
environment for executing applications and a collection of services that implement most o f
the common features required for Web development and that help developers build applications
that are easy to scale. One of the characteristic elements of AppEngine is the use of simple
interfaces that allow applica- tions to perform specific operations that are optimized and
designed to scale. Building on top of these blocks, developers can build applications and let
AppEngine scale them out when needed.
The WindowsAzureplatformismadeupofafoundationlayerandasetofdeveloperservicesthat can
beusedtobuildscalableapplications.Theseservicescovercompute,storage,networking,and
identitymanagement,whicharetiedtogetherbymiddlewarecalled AppFabric. Thisscalablecom- puting
environmentishostedwithinMicrosoftdatacentersandaccessiblethroughtheWindows
AzureManagementPortal.Alternatively,developerscanrecreateaWindowsAzureenvironment (with
limitedcapabilities)ontheirownmachinesfordevelopmentandtestingpurposes.Inthissec- tion,
weprovideanoverviewoftheAzuremiddlewareanditsservices.
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UNIT 1/LECTURE 7

Apache Hadoop is an open-source software framework for storage and large-scale processing
of data-sets on clusters of commodity hardware. Hadoop is an Apache top-level project being
built and used by a global community of contributors and users.[2] It is licensed under the
Apache License 2.0.

The Apache Hadoop framework is composed of the following modules:

Hadoop Common contains libraries and utilities needed by other Hadoop modules
Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) a distributed file-system that stores data on
commodity machines, providing very high aggregate bandwidth across the cluster.
Hadoop YARN a resource-management platform responsible for managing compute
resources in clusters and using them for scheduling of users' applications.
Hadoop MapReduce a programming model for large scale data processing.

All the modules in Hadoop are designed with a fundamental assumption that hardware failures
(of individual machines, or racks of machines) are common and thus should be automatically
handled in software by the framework. Apache Hadoop's MapReduce and HDFS components
originally derived respectively from Google's MapReduce and Google File System (GFS) papers.

Beyond HDFS, YARN and MapReduce, the entire Apache Hadoop "platform" is now commonly
considered to consist of a number of related projects as well Apache Pig, Apache Hive,
Apache HBase, Apache Spark, and others.[3]

For the end-users, though MapReduce Java code is common, any programming language can be
used with "Hadoop Streaming" to implement the "map" and "reduce" parts of the user's
program.[4] Apache Pig, Apache Hive, Apache Spark among other related projects expose higher
level user interfaces like Pig latin and a SQL variant respectively. The Hadoop framework itself is
mostly written in the Java programming language, with some native code in C and command
line utilities written as shell-scripts.

Apache Hadoop is a registered trademark of the Apache Software Foundation.

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UNIT 1/LECTURE 8
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a platform that allows the development of flexible applications
by providing solutions for elastic infrastructure scalability, messaging, and data storage.
The platform is accessible through SOAP or RESTful W eb service interfaces and provides a Web -
based console where users can handle administration and monitoring of the resources required,
as well as their expenses computed on a pay -as-you-go basis. Atthebaseofthesolution
stackareservicesthatproviderawcomputeandrawstorage: Amazon ElasticCompute(EC2) and
AmazonSimpleStorageService(S3). Thesearethetwomostpopularservices,whicharegenerally
complementedwithotherofferingsforbuildingacompletesystem.Atthehigherlevel, Elastic MapReduce
and AutoScaling provideadditionalcapabilitiesforbuildingsmarterandmoreelastic
computingsystems.Onthedataside, ElasticBlockStore(EBS), Amazon SimpleDB, AmazonRDS, and
Amazon ElastiCache provide solutionsforreliabledatasnapshotsandthemanagementofstruc-
turedandsemistructureddata.Communicationneedsarecoveredatthenetworkinglevelby
AmazonVirtualPrivateCloud(VPC), ElasticLoadBalancing, AmazonRoute53, and Amazon
DirectConnect. Moreadvancedservicesforconnectingapplicationsare AmazonSimpleQueue Service
(SQS), AmazonSimpleNotificationService(SNS), and Amazon SimpleE-mailService (SES).
Otherservicesinclude: AmazonCloudFront content deliverynetworksolution AmazonCloudWatch
monitoringsolutionforseveralAmazonservices AmazonElasticBeanStalk and CloudFormation
flexibleapplicationpackaginganddeployment As
shown,AWScompriseawidesetofservices.Wediscussthemostimportantservicesby
examiningthesolutionsproposedbyAWSregardingcompute,storage,communication,andcom -
plementaryservices.

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Aneka is an Application Platform-as-a-Service (Aneka PaaS) for Cloud Computing. It acts as a

framework for building customized applications and deploying them on either public or private
Clouds. One of the key features of Aneka is its support for provisioning resources on different
public Cloud providers such as Amazon EC2, Windows Azure and GoGrid. In this chapter, we will
present Aneka platform and its integration with one of the public Cloud infrastructures,
Windows Azure, which enables the usage of Windows Azure Compute Service as a resource
provider of Aneka PaaS. The integration of the two platforms will allow users to leverage the
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power of Windows Azure Platform for Aneka Cloud Computing, employing a large number of
compute instances to run their applications in parallel. Furthermore, customers of the Windows
Azure platform can benefit from the integration with Aneka PaaS by embracing the advanced
features of Aneka in terms of multiple programming models, scheduling and management
services, application execution services, accounting and pricing services and dynamic
provisioning services. Finally, in addition to the Windows Azure Platform we will illustrate in this
chapter the integration of Aneka PaaS with other public Cloud platforms such as Amazon EC 2
and GoGrid, and virtual machine management platforms such as Xen Server. The new support
of provisioning resources on Windows Azure once again proves the adaptability, extensibility
and flexibility of Aneka.

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UNIT 1/LECTURE 10/ADDITIONAL TOPICS

REFERENCCE

BOOK AUTHOR PRIORITY

Mastering Cloud Computing Buyya, Selvi 1
Cloud Computing Kumar Saurabh 2
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