Paper Info
Title
Virtual Network Configuration Management System For Data Center Operations And Management
Abstract
Virtualization technologies are widely deployed in data centers to improve system utilization. However, they increase the workload for operators, who have to manage the structure of virtual networks in data centers. A virtual-network management system which automates the integration of the configurations of the virtual networks is provided. The proposed system collects the configurations from server virtualization platforms and VLAN-supported switches, and integrates these configurations according to a newly developed XML-based management information model for virtual-network configurations. Preliminary evaluations show that the proposed system helps operators by reducing the time to acquire the configurations from devices and correct the inconsistency of operators' configuration management database by about 40 percent. Further, they also show that the proposed system has excellent scalability; the system takes less than 20 minutes to acquire the virtual-network configurations from a large scale network that includes 300 virtual machines. These results imply that the proposed system is effective for improving the configuration management process for virtual networks in data centers.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1587/transcom.E95.B.1924
IEICE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS
Keywords
Field
DocType
server virtualization, virtual switch, operations and management, configuration management
Structure of Management Information,Virtual network,Element management system,Computer science,Computer network,Configuration management,Configuration Management (ITSM),Network management application,Operating system,FCAPS,Network management station
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
E95B
6
0916-8516
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
3
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hideki Okita101.01
Masahiro Yoshizawa231.54
Keitaro Uehara312.40
Kazuhiko Mizuno400.68
Toshiaki Tarui5174.42
Ken Naono685.74