[gridvirt-wg] Open Nebula Virtual Infrastructure Engine

[Luis Gonzalez Abundes]

Good day,

I'm Luis Gonzalez, member of the DSA Research Group (dsa-research.org) 
at Universidad Complutense in Madrid which is developing the Open Nebula 
Virtual Infrastructure Engine (former Gridhypervisor). Currently we are 
part of the  Reservoir European project, which is related to 
Virtualization and Grid,  and so we have been following closely the use 
case draft and proposed API published on the gridforge project of this 
WG and other important standards like DMTF's proposals.

In particular, we are working on the implementation of a VM manager 
(OpenNebula based) on top of a physical infrastructure (like clusters) 
that will manage the full life cycle of the VM from definition to 
execution and destruction, including things like scheduling of VMs 
according to some rules or policies based on host statistics 
(load-balancing, idle time...) and also provide capabilities like 
snapshotting, migration, live migration, deployment, etc. and creation 
of VM with their corresponding disk images in an image repository.

One of our goals in the context of the RESERVOIR project is to define an 
open specification of an API for the management of VMs, so being the 
OpeNebula API an open-source reference implementation. We are wondering 
if the API proposed in the WG draft has a similar aim.

Regards,

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Luis Gonzalez Abundes, Grid Technology Engineer/Researcher:
DSA Research Group: http://dsa-research.org
Globus GridWay Metascheduler: http://www.GridWay.org  
OpenNebula Virtual Infrastructure Engine: http://www.OpenNebula.org