Virtualizing Network Services: Practical Perspectives

Abstract

The work in this paper focuses on creating virtualized network services for datacenters based on open-source software and explains the preliminary and mandatory requirement associated with. Datacenters are necessity for organizations to maintain their workflow and processed data as well as fast and secure data retrieval. The current and future design emerge virtualization as key technology in efficient and manageable datacenters. Therefore, the design proposal is based on virtualizing physical servers to the required services following infrastructure as a service. The designed and implemented network use open-source operating systems and software exclusively. Different types of services like web, email, eLearning, databases, and Cloud ready are included and tested. The runtime for the implemented datacenter clearly supports this proposal and confirms the direction of use open-source software over closed-systems for building highly customized network services and reduceoverall cost.