Usher: An extensible framework for managing clusters of virtual machines

Proceedings of the 21st Large Installation System Administration Conference, LISA 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 167-181

  McNett, Marvin ^a   Gupta, Diwaker ^a   Vahdat, Amin ^a   Voelker, Geoffrey M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTHENTICATION; NETWORK SECURITY;

ADMINISTRATIVE TASKS; COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS; DESIGN PHILOSOPHY; EXTENSIBLE FRAMEWORK; MACHINE OPERATION; VIRTUAL MACHINE ENVIRONMENTS; VIRTUAL MACHINE MANAGEMENT; VIRTUAL MACHINE SCHEDULING;

VIRTUAL MACHINE;

EID: 85094318835     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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