Challenges in building scalable virtualized datacenter management

Operating Systems Review (ACM)

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 95-102

  Soundararajan, Vijayaraghavan ^a   Govil, Kinshuk ^a  

^a VMWARE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; Datacenter management; Management workload; Virtual machine management

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; DATA CENTERS; DATACENTER MANAGEMENTS; HIGH AVAILABILITY; I/O DEVICE; IN-BUILDINGS; IT ADMINISTRATORS; MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE; MANAGEMENT TOOL; MANAGEMENT WORKLOAD; MULTIPLE DATA; NEW SYSTEM; PLANNED MAINTENANCE; POLICY DRIVEN; RESOURCE CONSUMPTION; RESOURCE UTILIZATIONS; STORAGE INFRASTRUCTURE; VIRTUAL MACHINE MANAGEMENT; VIRTUAL MACHINES; VIRTUALIZATIONS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

MANAGEMENT;

EID: 78650750546     PISSN: 01635980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1899928.1899941     Document Type: Article

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