Hi Jitendra why dont you go for Auto scaling in Cloudstack. Both horizontal and vertical scaling. Currently scale-out(horizontal scale) is supported by third party tools like Scalr .
We are also doing some R&D in these areas. On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 2:23 PM, sebgoa <run...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Jan 6, 2014, at 6:42 PM, Ignazio Cassano <ignaziocass...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, my suggestion concerns Desktop as a Service (DaaS) based on linux >> kvm and Spice. >> Spice protocol is opensource and could be included to expand cloudstack >> features. >> Ignazio > > That could be very interesting > >> >> >> >> 2014/1/6 manas biswal <manas.biswa...@gmail.com> >> >>> virtual disk inter- operability , may be another area, means study >>> about different disk formats that CloudStack is supporting. >>> like qucow, vhd etc. >>> >>> On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 9:14 PM, sebgoa <run...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> On Jan 6, 2014, at 5:33 AM, jitendra shelar < >>> jitendra.shelar...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi All, >>>>> >>>>> I am pursuing with my MS at BITs, Pilani, India. >>>>> I am planning of doing my final sem project in cloudstack. >>>>> >>>>> Can somebody please suggest me some research areas in cloudstack? >>>>> >>>> >>>> Hi Jitendra, it depends what you mean by 'research', but there are a lot >>> of interesting projects to do IMHO: >>>> >>>> -Integration testing: Develop the Marvin framework and write tests to >>> continuously check the support for CloudStack clients (libcloud, AWS, >>> jclouds etc) this would require learning jenkins, understanding continuous >>> integration pipeline and finding ways to tests these clients automatically. >>>> >>>> -Investigating Xen GPU passthrough and setting up a demo where Xen >>> hypervisors are tagged specifically for VM that need access to GPUs, run >>> CUDA code on them… >>>> >>>> -Investigate Mesos framework and develop deployments scripts to >>> automatically deploy Mesos on a CloudStack infrastructure, the end goal >>> being to demo running mixed workloads (MPI, hadoop, spark) on a virtualized >>> infrastructure in cloudstack >>>> >>>> -Docker integration/use, a few of us have been talking about this and >>> you would be likely to get some help from the community. >>>> >>>> -Review of configuration management systems (chef, puppet, ansible, >>> saltstack...) develop recipes for deploying cloudstack for all systems >>> (some already exist), from source and from packages. Include management >>> server and hypervisor setup. Ideally had a wrapper to link to the >>> hypervisor and the mgt server together automatically using Marvin. >>>> >>>> -Investigate PaaS solutions and their integration with CloudStack. >>> Software like cloudify, openshift, cloudfoundry, appscale…some of it is >>> already done but a thorough analysis of pros and cons as well as code >>> writing to finish the integration of some would be great. >>>> >>>> You can also check out JIRA: >>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK , browse through the >>> long list of 'bugs' and pick what seems interesting to you. >>>> >>>> This all depends of course on your skills and interest, are you more of >>> a java developer or a sys admin ? Are you interested in integration with >>> third party software or core java development ? >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> >>>> -sebastien >>>> >>>>> Thanks, >>>>> Jitendra >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Thanks and Regards >>> Manas Ranjan Biswal >>> Research Scientist, >>> OpenTechnology Center, >>> NIC,Chennai >>> 08015698191,9776349149 >>> manas.bis...@nic.in >>> > -- Thanks and Regards Manas Ranjan Biswal Research Scientist, OpenTechnology Center, NIC,Chennai 08015698191,9776349149 manas.bis...@nic.in
