Cloud Computing WG(initiative in AFACT)

Institute For Information Industry

WG Objectives

• To establish a standard format and mechanism for the interoperable virtual appliance marketplace for the cloud applications

• Deploying applications and services in standards-compliant environment avoids vendor lock-in and enables “AppStore” for Cloud applications and services.

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WG Work Items

• Identify a set of applications for deploying into clouds.

• Analyze selected applications (OS, CPU, memory, network, storage, configurations, and database).

• Define OVF for applications.• Deploy applications into specified cloud

infrastructures. • Prepare the guidelines for utilizing OVF.

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WG Deliverables

• Define OVF for selected applications• Pilot projects packaged for deploying virtual

appliance into cloud using OVF• Guidelines for utilizing OVF

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WG Status

• There are 4 country members have expressed interests in joining the WG– Chinese Taipei (Garry Lee, Deputy Director General, III):

investigate cloud computing technology – Thailand (Wanawit Ahkuputra, Deputy Executive Director):

provide application for migration– Korea (Young Kon Lee, Korea Polytechnic University):

investigate cloud computing technology– There are also other interesting parties would like to

provide applications for investigations when available (e.g. Akio Suzuki, TT&L WG from Japan)

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Virtual Appliance

• A pre-configured software stack comprising one or more virtual systems – Each virtual system is an independently installable run-

time entity • an operating system • applications and application-specific data • metadata describing the virtual hardware that is

required by the virtual system.

• Delivering complex software systems and services as a pre-configured software stack can dramatically increase robustness and simplify installation

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New Distribution Paradigm

• Virtual appliances are changing the software distribution paradigm – they allow optimization of the software stack for

the specific application – deliver a turnkey service to the end user.

• For solution providers, building a virtual appliance is simpler and more cost effective than building a hardware appliance.

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VM Images for Runtime Only

• VM images are virtualization technology specific– VMware's VMDK Virtual Disk Format – Microsoft's VHD Virtual Hard Disk format– Open source QCOW format.

• VM images can not support virtual appliance – A virtual system that has multiple disks, or multiple virtual

systems, or they need customization of the virtual system during installation

– An application needs multiple VMs, and the deployment system needs extra info (e.g., network, configuration, start up / stop sequence, etc.)

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OVF Enables Virtual Appliance Ecosystem

• If the application designer deploys the application into virtual system (cloud) to build the virtual appliance – Then they know how to configure the application– In this case, VM images only should be OK

• But if the 3rd party designed the application, and for any other person to deploy– In this case, OVF is required to capture all the

designer knowledge into the package for the application deployment.

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Virtual Appliance Ecosystem

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CloudVirtual System

Application developer

Application developer

Application developer

VM image

VM image

VM image

OVF package creator

OVF package creator

OVF appliancepackage

OVF appliancepackage

OVF appliance

deployment

OVF appliance

deployment

OVF enables application developers to create virtual appliances that can be deployed in various clouds

Action Items / Status

• Select a set of applications for evaluation– III currently select smart tourism application

• Create OVF for smart tourism application

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Smart Tourism Application Demo

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Why III : CAFÉ R&D

Virtual Machine Management

Standalone Server Rack-mount Server

Desktop &Applications

File Manager File Object Sync & Share

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

PC Server

OS

Win

do

ws

/Lin

ux

Cloud ServerCAFÉ-cakeCloud Appliance Kernel Environment

Cloud DesktopCAFÉ-pc2

Personal Cloud Computer

Cloud StorageCAFÉ-cosa

Cloud Object Storage Appliance

S/W+H/W

CPU,Memory,

Disk,Network

Cloud Appliance

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CAFÉ CAKE(Cloud Appliance Kernel Environment)

Administrator

End User

Virtual Machines

Web-based UI

Physical Machine Resources

Virtual Machine Resources

III CAFÉ Global IDC Pilot

III CAFE

Cloud-Eco

Network

Server

VM

Management

Storage

IDC plays as a solution landing aggregator

Taiwan Cloud ecosystem is aiming to global IDC market

Taiwan vendor solutions Stack Demo Center

Global IDC Pilot:Thailand ,Vietnam,Kuwuit

Education, Healthcare,Tourism, GIS,e-MarketingMobile POS/CRMVideo Conferencing, . .

Let’s doing more forCloud Computing Standards!

Thank you

Backup

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The life cycle for a virtual system

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OVF author function

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OVF Deployment Function

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OVF Package Structure

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Cloud Computing Standards

VirtualizationManagement

DMTF Open Virtualization Format (OVF)

DMTF Common Information Model (CIM)

Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC)

OpenStack

DMTF Cloud InfrastructureManagement Interface (CIMI)

Open ComputingProject(OCP)

Hardware Cloud OSCloud

Service(QoS)

CloudApplication

Object Management Group

Open Data Center Alliance

Cloud Standards Customer Council

CloudStackOpen NetworkFoundation(ONF)

Open Grid ForumStorage Networking Industry Association Cloud

ComputingStandard

OASIS Service ComponentArchitecture

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positioned to drive new levels of interoperability across cloud

deployments

Cloud Computing WG Focus Point

(VMAN)Virtualization Management

Cloud ApplicationPortability

(CAPP)Cloud

Application

DMTFSystem Virtualization,

Partitioning, and Clustering Working

Group (SVPC)

OASIS Topology and Orchestration

Specification for Cloud Applications (TOSCA) TC

Virtual Ethernet Switch Generic Device Resource

Virtualization Ethernet Port Resource

Virtualization Storage Resource

Virtualization Memory Resource

Virtualization Processor Resource

Virtualization Allocation Capabilities System Virtualization Resource Allocation

Portable deployment to any compliant cloud

Smoother migration of existing applications to the cloud

Flexible bursting (consumer choice)

Dynamic, multi-cloud provider applications

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WG Objectives

• To establish the best practice for utilizing DMTF and TOSCA international standard for migrating applications and services into cloud and between clouds.

• Deploying applications and services in standards-compliant environment avoids vendor lock-in and enables “AppStore” for Cloud applications and services.

• To establish a standard format and mechanism for trading the virtual appliance for the cloud 24