Abstract
The hypervisor and container are emerging cloud computing and fog computing technologies, which enable rapid system deployment. However, both of the technologies depend on the operating system (OS) and applications that are installed on the host machines. System deployment is the activity to deliver and install OSs and applications onto computers. Such deployment activities are widely required in the infrastructure of cloud computing, fog computing, high-performance computing clusters, and classrooms of computer education. Albeit the concept of system deployment is not new, traditional solutions cannot support the rapid evolution of open source file systems. Furthermore, existing solutions cannot support the massive deployment of disks in a computer as well as the massive deployment in large-scale computers. To resolve the issue, the authors proposed novel system architecture as well as software that is openly available. The experiments are undertaken by deploying a Linux system to 1 to 30 Universal Serial Bus (USB) flash drives in a single machine and to 1 to 32 machines in a network using the software that is being developed in this work. The results have demonstrated the feasibility and efficiency of the proposed work. The relationships between the bus bandwidth, the writing rate of the USB flash drive, and the number of flash drives were also formulated as a govern equation. Performance evaluation and cost savings in comparing to the deployment cases adopting commercial software were also provided for demonstrating the performance enhancement and cost reduction by using the novel deployment system. In general, the proposed architecture and the developed software are highly effective from the aspects of both performance and cost.
Highlights
IntroductionSystem deployment or system provisioning is the activity of making the operating system (OS)and applications that are available for use in the machine being deployed (i.e., the machine is put into the state of operational readiness) [1,2]
System deployment or system provisioning is the activity of making the operating system (OS)and applications that are available for use in the machine being deployed [1,2]
In order to validate the open source massive deployment system as proposed and implemented, two experiments were performed demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed novel open source
Summary
System deployment or system provisioning is the activity of making the operating system (OS)and applications that are available for use in the machine being deployed (i.e., the machine is put into the state of operational readiness) [1,2]. Because system deployment can be used for either physical or virtual machines, the term “bare-metal provisioning” [3] can be used to describe the tasks that are related to the deployment of OSs and applications to physical machines. Such deployment tasks are time-consuming because many sub-tasks are involved, including OS deployment, application installation, setting configuration, and performance adjustment, as well as the preparation and restoration of images [2].
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