Introduction

This page introduces the project which links btrCloud and CloudStack. The aim of this project is to manage and control CloudStack by means of a utility software called btrCloud.

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btrCloud is an utility software based on three main functionalities :Analysis, Management, Optimization of the data centres. btrCloud is an abstract layer composed of several tools :

• btrView
• btrConsole
• btrAction
• btrMonitor
• btrScript

To be able to manage the data centers, firstly btrMonitor analyses the settings of the data centers (number of servers, number of virtual machines, the CPU and Ram of each one… ). Then, btrScript manages, moves, increases the resources of the virtual machines… according to some rules previously defined by the administrators. btrView and btrConsole also allows the administrators to interact with the data centers to make manual operations.

Apache CloudStack is open source software written in java that is designed to deploy and manage large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, scalable cloud computing platform. CloudStack current supports the most popular hypervisors VMware, Oracle VM, KVM, XenServer and Xen Cloud Platform. CloudStack offers three ways to manage cloud computing environments: a easy-to-use web interface, command line and a full-featured RESTful API.

The aim of the project is to enable and simply the management of the CloudStack's environment using the btrCloud's technology. This implies developing drivers to link btrMonitor and btrAction with CloudStack.