SOAVM: A Service-Oriented Virtualization Management System with Automated Configuration

Virtualization technologies are becoming more and more widely used in the distributed computing area. In order to organize and manage various virtual machines in the SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) environment more effectively, a virtualization management system called SOAVM is proposed and demonstrated in this paper. SOAVM addresses the limitation of virtual appliances in software quantities by employing ACS (Automated Configuration Service). ACS provides a more flexible way to conduct automated software configuration on virtual machines compared to the traditional virtual appliance pattern. The system framework is designed, which defines all functions of SOAVM as services to comply with SOA. Then the system design is described, illustrating how ACS works. Furthermore, critical implementation issues are discussed in detail, which demonstrates that SOAVM is a feasible and efficient virtualization management system.