1. StratusLab is co-funded by the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme (Capacities) Grant Agreement INFSO-RI-261552 StratusLab: Enhancing Grid Infrastructures with Virtualization and Cloud Technologies EGI User Forum (Vilnius, Lithuania) 12 April 2011

2. 2 StratusLab Project Goal  Create comprehensive, open-source, IaaS cloud distribution  Focus on supporting grid services Information  1 June 2010—31 May 2012 (2 years)  6 partners from 5 countries  Budget : 3.3 M€ (2.3 M€ EC) Contacts  Site web: http://stratuslab.eu/http://stratuslab.eu/  Twitter: @StratusLab  Support: support@stratuslab.eusupport@stratuslab.eu CNRS (FR)UCM (ES) GRNET (GR)SIXSQ (CH) TID (ES)TCD (IE)

3. 3 Goal  Offer remote access to computing resources Advantages  Customized environments  Rapid access via simple API  Complete control (root access) with “pay as you go” model Disadvantages  Non-standard interfaces (vendor lock-in)  Creating new virtual machines is difficult Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Platform as a Service (PaaS) Software as a Service (SaaS)

4. 4 Grid and Cloud Integrations Grid Resource Center StratusLab Distribution Private/Public Cloud Cloud API and Service Manager API Grid Services Public Clouds users

5. 5 Architecture of StratusLab v1.0 IaaS Cloud Virtual Machine Manager (OpenNebula) XML-RPC  OCCI Physical Computing Resources VMware Service Manager (Claudia) TCloud Storage Manager REST/CDMI iSCSI (?)KVMXen… Physical Storage Resources … Appliance Management StratusLab Marketplace HTTP(S) REST Interface Appliance Storage (Web, Grid, Cloud) users

6. 6 Releases:  v0.1 (9 Nov. 2010)  v0.2 (17 Dec. 2010)  v0.3 (15 Mar. 2011)  v0.4 (~end-Apr., +storage)  v1.0 (~end-May) Goals  Provide complete, open- source cloud distribution  Generate feedback from users and administrators Warning:  The APIs, commands, etc. can (and will) change! Public, Preview Releases Documentation  User tutorial (web et video)  Reference deployment description  Installation guides Services  Appliance repository  Marketplace (v0.3)  Cloud infrastructure (GRNET)  User and administrator support (support@stratuslab.eu) Software  OpenNebula (2.0 in v0.1-2, 2.2 in v0.3)  Command line utilities (user and administrator)  Utilities for signing and validating image metadata (v0.2)  Site policy engine for specified images (v0.3)  IP Addresses: public, local, and private (v0.2)  Standard machine images (ttylinux, Ubuntu, CentOS)  Bioinformatics and grid services images (v0.3)  Web monitor  Manual and Quattor-based installation Security  Integration with grid certificates (v0.2)  Integration with VOMS proxies (v0.3)  Enhancing logging (v0.3)  Quarantine for forensic analysis (v0.3)

7. Copyright © 2011, Members of the StratusLab collaboration: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Greek Research and Technology Network S.A., SixSq Sàrl, Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo SA, and The Provost Fellows and Scholars of the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth Near Dublin. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/