Dynamic Resource Management in an eUtility

Océano is management software for an eUtility infrastructure capable of providing cost-effective, autonomic resource allocation for multiple domains, in response to existent performance conditions. The Control Layer of Océano provides the mechanisms to manage resources. A resource director coordinates resource allocations carried out by a set of resource managers. We describe the resource model, and the resource managers for server pools, application deployment, network traffic, and network security. We have found that this set of resource mangers provides a coherent set of management functions to create an eUtility that supports autonomous allocation of servers and bandwidth with network security between customers. A prototype of Océano has been developed and deployed on an 80-server platform, and has been tested with multiple domains and applications.