Utilizing the Xen Hypervisor in business practice - Bryan Fusilier
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The document discusses the benefits of open source software (OSS) and the Xen hypervisor. It explains that OSS provides shared resources through large developer and user communities, and is cost effective as software is freely modifiable. It then provides details on how the Xen hypervisor works, describing its role of allocating resources and creating virtual machines (VMs). It compares the shared resources and modifiable aspects of Xen, OSS, and the LiquidIQ platform.
Utilizing the Xen Hypervisor in business practice - Bryan Fusilier
- 1. Utilizing the Xen Hypervisor in business practice Bryan Fuselier
- 2. OSS Benefits
- 3. Benefits of OSS Shared pool of resources Cost Effective Modifiable
- 4. Shared Resources Massively expanding list of developers and contributors to draw insider knowledge of specific software Large user groups to contribute experience and real-world knowledge
- 5. Cost Effective "Free software" is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of "free" as in "free speech," not as in "free beer." Free software is a matter of the users' freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. More precisely, it refers to four kinds of freedom, for the users of the software: The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0). The freedom to study how the program works, and adapt it to your needs (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this. The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor (freedom 2). The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits (freedom 3). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
- 6. Modifiable Source code is freely available to modify at will either in house or outsourced
- 7. What's a Hypervisor Sits between hardware and operating systems Allocates Resources Performs like a hardware system's BIOS
- 8. Domain Definition When we are talking about virtualization, a domain is one of the virtual machines that run on the system. Domain0 is the first domain started by the Xen hypervisor at boot, and will be running a Linux OS. This domain is privileged: it may access the hardware and can run the XenControlTools that manage other domains. These other domains are referred to as DomUs, the U standing for "user". They are unprivileged, and could be running any operating system that has been ported to Xen.
- 9. How it Works Step 1) Inventory of physical resources: IRQ0 IRQ1 IRQ2 IRQ3
- 10. How it Works Step 2) Inventory of processors: CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU4
- 11. How it Works Step 3) Assign processors to available resources: CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU3 IRQ0 IRQ1 IRQ2 IRQ3
- 12. How it Works Step 4) Mask all initialization requests to processors: CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU4 IRQ0 IRQ1 IRQ2 IRQ3
- 13. How it Works Step 5) Initialize all processors: CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU4 IRQ0 IRQ1 IRQ2 IRQ3
- 14. How it Works Step 6) Create Dom0: CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU4 IRQ0 IRQ1 IRQ2 IRQ3 DomU Control Direct HW Access
- 15. How it Works Step 7) Physical Memory Inventory: CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU4 IRQ0 IRQ1 IRQ2 IRQ3 Dom0 alloc.: 000000041c000000->0000000420000000 (507904 pages to be allocated)
- 16. How it Works Step 7) Virtual Memory Management: Loaded kernel: ffffffff80200000->ffffffff805aee6c Init. ramdisk: ffffffff805af000->ffffffff825af000 Phys-Mach map: ffffffff825af000->ffffffff829af000 Start info: ffffffff829af000->ffffffff829af49c Page tables: ffffffff829b0000->ffffffff829c9000 Boot stack: ffffffff829c9000->ffffffff829ca000 TOTAL: ffffffff80000000->ffffffff82c00000 ENTRY ADDRESS: ffffffff80200000
- 17. How it Works Step 8) Boot Dom0:
- 18. How LiquidIQ works I/O Modules perform a PXE boot from an NFS server hosting it's image issuing DHCP I/O Modules determine which one will be master Master IOM builds the active database based on hardware resources it finds installed in the chassis. Master IOM boots each available compute module with the configuration options set in the database CM looks up it's configuration in the database and boots each VM with it's configuration options in the database
- 19. Xen, OSS & Liquid Shared resources Liquid IQ - Computer resources Xen - Support OSS - Code development Cost Effective power and resources free (as in speech and beer) free (as in speech sometimes beer) Modifiable on-the-fly VM modification modifiable source code modifiable source code
- 20. Advantages of Xen Free (as in speech and beer) Large support basis (via internet forums and paid support options) Easily manage multi-client environment from one central location
- 21. Limitations of Xen Lose advanced abilities provided by more well known commercial products VMWare's VMotion RAM Over subscription I/O limitations in heavy operating environments (all hypervisors)
- 22. Summary Open Source provides all the major functionality of standard commercial packages In the case of Xen, this causes higher cost of management and administration over commercial options Requires someone with the ability to understand and configure software with a development background