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Replication and Caching Systems for the support of VMs stored in File Systems with Snapshots
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Recently, in a relatively short timeframe, there were fundamental changes in the way
computing power is used. Virtualisation technology has changed both the model of a
data centre’s infrastructure and the way physical computers are now managed. This shift
is a consequence of today’s fast deployment rate of Virtual Machines (VM) in a high
consolidation environment with minimal need for human management.
New approaches to virtualisation techniques are being developed at a surprisingly fast
rate, leading to a new exciting and vibrating ecosystem of platforms and services. We see
the big industry players tackling problems such as Desktop Virtualisation with moderate
success, but completely ignoring the computation power already present in their clients’
infrastructures and, instead, opting for a costly solution based on powerful new machines.
There’s still room for improvement in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and development
of new architectures that take advantage of the computation power available
at the user’s desk, with a minimum effort on the management side; Infrastructure for
Client-Based Desktops (iCBD) is one of these projects.
This thesis focuses on the development of mechanisms for the replication and caching
of VM images stored in a local filesystem, albeit one with the ability to perform snapshots.
In this work, there are some challenges to address: the proposed architecture must be
entirely distributed and completely integrated with the already existing client-based VDI
platform; and it must be able to efficiently cope with very large, read-only files, (some
of them snapshots) and handle their multiple versions. This work will also explore the
challenges and advantages of deploying such a system in a high throughput network,
with both high availability and scalability while efficiently supporting a large number of
users (and their workstations).
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VDI Btrfs File System Snapshots Replication Middleware Cache Servers