VISoR - Virtual Machine Images Management Service for Cloud Infrastructures

João Pereira, Paula Prata

2012

Abstract

Virtual machine images represent one of the most valuable components in providing a cloud infrastructure, so managing them becomes a key concern in such systems. Each one of the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offers provides its own version of a local image repository. This fact raises problems when managing multiple environments with different IaaS, or when migrating from one to another, because such images management services are mainly designed to interact with its corresponding IaaS and its own storage system. This article presents VISoR, a work-in-progress project, whose main goal is to achieve an agnostic service for managing virtual machine images among different cloud offers.

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Pereira J. and Prata P. (2012). VISoR - Virtual Machine Images Management Service for Cloud Infrastructures . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER, ISBN 978-989-8565-05-1, pages 401-406. DOI: 10.5220/0003903104010406


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Pereira J. and Prata P. (2012). VISoR - Virtual Machine Images Management Service for Cloud Infrastructures . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER, ISBN 978-989-8565-05-1, pages 401-406. DOI: 10.5220/0003903104010406


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@conference{closer12,
author={João Pereira and Paula Prata},
title={VISoR - Virtual Machine Images Management Service for Cloud Infrastructures},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,},
year={2012},
pages={401-406},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003903104010406},
isbn={978-989-8565-05-1},
}


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@conference{closer12,
author={João Pereira and Paula Prata},
title={VISoR - Virtual Machine Images Management Service for Cloud Infrastructures},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,},
year={2012},
pages={401-406},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003903104010406},
isbn={978-989-8565-05-1},
}


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JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,
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AU - Prata P.
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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,
TI - VISoR - Virtual Machine Images Management Service for Cloud Infrastructures
SN - 978-989-8565-05-1
AU - Pereira J.
AU - Prata P.
PY - 2012
SP - 401
EP - 406
DO - 10.5220/0003903104010406