1 PlanetLab: A globally distributed testbed for New and Disruptive Services CS441 Mar 15th, 2005 Seungjun Lee
Overview Background PlanetLab is … Advantages Key Design Principle PlanetLab Virtual Machine Slice Creation
Background Internet is increasingly being ossified Still only best-effort packet delivery service Not much changed to IP protocol since the first design New global-scale services emerge How to develop and test such services The need of global-scale testing infrastructure
PlanetLab is … A set of Linux PCs widely-distributed A common software architecture A shared network testbed A deployment platform
Advantages Experiment at scale Experiment under real-world conditions Potential for real workloads and users Low entry cost
Key Design Principle Distributed virtualization Slice : distributed set of virtual machine resources Isolation Isolate services from each other Protect the Internet from PlanetLab
PlanetLab Virtual Machines Hardware Linux Vserver Service 1 Vserver Service 2 Vserver Service 3 Vserver Service 4 Vserver Service n Combined Isolation and Application Interface + Resource Isolation + Safe Raw Sockets + Instrumentation
PlanetLab Network Architecture Node manger (one per node) Create slices for service managers When service managers provide valid tickets Allocate resources for vservers Resource Monitor (one per node) Track node ’ s available resources Tell agents about available resources
PlanetLab Network Architecture Agents (centralized) Track nodes ’ free resources Advertise resources to resource brokers Issue tickets to resource brokers Tickets may be redeemed with node managers to obtain the resource
PlanetLab Network Architecture Resource Broker (per service) Obtain tickets from agents on behalf of service managers Service Managers (per service) Obtain tickets from broker Redeem tickets with node managers to acquire resources If resources can be acquired, start service
Slice Creation Agent Service Manager Broker
Slice Creation Service Manager Broker Resource Monitor Agent
Slice Creation Service Manager Broker Resource Monitor Agent
Slice Creation Service Manager Broker Resource Monitor ticket Agent
Slice Creation Service Manager Broker Resource Monitor ticket Agent
Slice Creation Service Manager Broker Resource Monitor ticket Agent
Slice Creation Service Manager Broker ticket Agent
Slice Creation Service Manager Broker ticket Agent
Slice Creation Service Manager Broker ticket Agent
Slice Creation Service Manager Broker ticket Agent
Slice Creation Service Manager Broker ticket Node Manager ticket Agent
Joining PlanetLab AS Users new users must register for a new account and then contact their local PI for their account to be activated. SSH private/public key pair
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