Section: New Software and Platforms

Snooze

Contact:

Christine Morin, Christine.Morin@inria.fr

URL:

http://snooze.inria.fr

Status:

Version 2.1.5

License:

GPLv2

Presentation:

Snooze  [53] , [52] , [54]  [4] is a novel Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud-management system, which is designed to scale across many thousands of servers and virtual machines (VMs) while being easy to configure, highly available, and energy efficient. For scalability, Snooze performs distributed VM management based on a hierarchical architecture. To support ease of configuration and high availability Snooze implements self-configuring and self-healing features. Finally, for energy efficiency, Snooze integrates a holistic energy management approach via VM resource (i.e. CPU, memory, network) utilization monitoring, underload/overload detection and mitigation, VM consolidation (by implementing a modified version of the Sercon algorithm  [59] ), and power management to transition idle servers into a power saving mode. Snooze is a highly modular piece of software. It has been extensively evaluated on the Grid'5000 testbed using realistic applications.

Snooze is fully implemented from scratch in Java and currently comprises approximately 15.000 lines of maintainable abstractions-based code. In order to provide a uniform interface to the underlying hypervisors and support transparent VM monitoring and management, Snooze integrates the libvirt virtualization library. Cassandra (since 2.0.0) can be used as base backend, providing reliability and scalability to the database management system. At a higher level Snooze provides its own REST API as well as an EC2 compatible API (since 2.1.0). It can thus be controlled from the command line (using the legacy client or an EC2 compatible tool), or from different langage libraries (libcloud, jcloud ...). Snooze also provides a web interface to control the system.

Snooze was used as a building box for two internships projects during the summer of 2014. The EC2 interface was used to execute Hadoop jobs configured by Resilin software. As a result we show that (1) the EC2 interface was expressive enough to work with a higher level tool and (2) the control over Snooze allow a better placement of data chunks for Hadoop jobs which leads to a better reliability of the execution of the different jobs. The second internship topic took part in a collaboration with the Northeastern University of Boston. The goal was to build a Checkpoint as a Service system. The service allows users to execute their computations in a cloud environment in a reliable way. Periodic checkpoints are saved making it possible to restore the computation from a previous state in case of failures. This work is described in [31] .

Active contributors (from Myriads team):

Jiajun Cao, Gene Cooperman, Eugen Feller, Yvon Jégou, David Margery, Christine Morin, Matthieu Simonin.

Impact:

Snooze has been used by students at LIFL, IRIT in France and LBNL in the US in the framework of internships. It has also been deployed and experimented at EDF R&D. Snooze entry won the 2nd prize of the scalability challenge at CCGrid2013. Finally, we know that it was experimented by external users from academia and industry as we received feed-back from them. Snooze development was supported by the Snooze ADT funded by Inria from October 2012 to September 2014.