Uma abordagem para o gerenciamento integrado de máquinas virtuais e serviços de redes

Abstract

Virtualization has being largely used in companies around the world due to the benefits it provides and it is pointed as a trend that is changing the way the IT infrastructure is plained and managed. Sets of virtual machines are dinamically and automaticaly created and managed by virtualization solutions in order to provid systems and services. To assist the management of computing environments with a large number of computers, some tools emerged that automate installation, configuration and manteinance of systems and services in large scale. Virtualization solutions and tools for systems and services management are used to manage the same set of servers, but these solutions and tools are used and managed separately, this increases network administrators work that need to know deeply different tools to get the most out of its use. This paper proposes a solution where the provisioning and management of virtual servers with services installed and configured are automated using information contained in a repository. This proposal aims at simplify virtual servers management through a solution that integrate virtual servers and services management and may be used without the need of expertise. This solution enables the user to create new virtual servers by selecting templates where systems and services are described and providing network information and settings files that configure out the virtual server to meet a specific demand. Based on the information contained in the selected templates and on the informations provided by user the system automates the new virtual server provisioning configured and ready to use. The solution replicates updates realized in templates to the virtual servers created from the updated templates without the need of manual intervention