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Compass: A Data Center Bootloader for Software Defined Infrastructure

Authors:
Shuo Yang
Weidong Shao
Haoyu Song
Wei Xu

Keywords: Compass; data center; bootloader; automation; SDN.

Abstract:
In this paper, we present a design of data center deployment automation system, Compass, for bootstrapping a software defined infrastructure, including network and compute nodes. Compass automates the process of bootstrapping a Software-Defined Networking (SDN) -based network from baremetal networking devices and provisioning the bare-metal servers through the SDN network in a unified management approach. The unified and streamlined deployment management of networking and compute resources not only reduces the initial deployment cost, but also provides a way to automatically scale out data center infrastructure’s capacity horizontally after the initial infrastructure setup (e.g., adding networking and computing resources, etc.). Using Compass, we have deployed a private cloud in a medium scale data center with around 200 commodity servers and over 20 SDN switches in Tsinghua University. We present the case study in this paper to illustrate the benefits of Compass as a unified deployment and management tool in a data center’s software define infrastructure.

Pages: 98 to 103

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2015

Publication date: May 24, 2015

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4006

ISBN: 978-1-61208-404-6

Location: Rome, Italy

Dates: from May 24, 2015 to May 29, 2015