A new automated approach to cloud population

This thesis presents vCloud Populator, a new approach to automating the cloud population process on VMware vCloud Director. Cloud population is the process during which a cloud instance is populated with entities to reflect a particular desired state. It is generally done by developers manually to render their cloud into a certain state for a quick and easy manual testing of features. However, manual cloud population can be very complex and time-consuming. The main goal of the vCloud Populator project is to reduce the amount of time that developers spend on populating a vCloud Director instance manually. The vCloud Populator approach involves the design of a new domain-specific language to describe a desired cloud state and the implementation of a system to generate a dynamic execution plan to populate a vCloud Director instance given by the state captured by a input script written in the said language.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2012

Author dc:creator

• Tam, Hoki

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Hari Balakrishnan and Brad Meiseles.

• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

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• M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/76836

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/76836