Call for Participation

Since this will be a user-driven workshop, attendees are encouraged to submit proposals for discussion topics (either sharing experiences or requesting clarification), as well as feature requests and problem areas. Please submit a very brief proposal, one or two paragraphs at most, outlining your discussion topic or question to ucms12chair@usenix.org by Monday, May 14, 2012. Feel free to suggest possible speakers as well.

Topics may include (but are not limited to):

• Issues of scale
  • Maintaining a large (cloud-scale) collection of virtual and real machines
  • Tracking, logging, and consolidation of information
  • Configuration footprint (the load that the configuration system places on network, disk, CPU, etc.)
• Virtualization
  • Management of the virtualization infrastructure
  • Management of the virtual machines
• Migration issues
  • Moving services from real hardware into the cloud
  • Backup, redundancy, upgrades, and failover