Alex Fishman, Mike Rapoport, Evgeny Budilovsky, and Izik Eidus, Ravello Systems
Abstract:
Nowadays there is significant diversity in Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) clouds. The differences span from virtualization technology and hypervisors, through storage and network configuration, to the cloud management APIs. These differences make migration of a VM (or a set of VMs) from a private cloud into a public cloud, or between different public clouds, complicated or even impractical for many use-cases.
HVX is a virtualization platform that enables complete abstraction of underlying cloud infrastructure from the application virtual machines. HVX allows deployment of existing VMs into the cloud without any modifications, mobility between the clouds and easy duplication
of the entire deployment.
HVX can be deployed on almost any existing IaaS cloud. Each instance of the HVX deployment packs in a nested hypervisor, virtual hardware, network and storage configuration.
Combined with image store and management APIs, the HVX can be used for the creation of a virtual cloud that utilizes existing cloud provider infrastructure as the hardware rather than using physical servers, switches and storage.
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BibTeX
@inproceedings {179388,
author = {Alex Fishman and Mike Rapoport and Evgeny Budilovsky and Izik Eidus},
title = {{HVX}: Virtualizing the Cloud},
booktitle = {5th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud 13)},
year = {2013},
address = {San Jose, CA},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotcloud13/workshop-program/presentations/fishman},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = jun
}
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