Experiences from Virtual Desktop Cloud Experiments in GENI
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Popular applications such as email, photo/video galleries, and file storage are increasingly being supported by cloud platforms in residential, academia and industry communities. The next frontier for these user communities will be to transition ‘traditional desktops’ that have dedicated hardware and software configurations into ‘virtual desktop clouds’ that are accessible via thin-clients. In this paper, we describe experiences from our research and development of virtual desktop cloud experiments in GENI. Our experimentation goal is to investigate and develop optimal resource allocation frameworks and performance benchmarking tools that can enable provisioning (i.e., resource sizing) and placement (i.e., resource mapping) of thin-client based virtual desktops at Internet-scale. We first motivate why virtual desktop cloud experiments cannot be done only at a table-top level, and why infrastructures such as GENI are essential. Next, we detail the methodology of our completed “provisioning” experiments, and our work-in-progress “placement” experiments in GENI that leverage multiple kinds of GENI resources such as aggregates, measurement services and experimenter workflow tools, as well as commercial software. Lastly, we present our vision on how our experiment slice setup and application development experiences, as well as outcomes can be leveraged in classroom labs, and ‘living labs’ that use GENI resources to foster training and wideadoption of Future Internet applications. Keywords-Virtual Desktop Clouds, Cloud Experiment in GENI, Optimal resource Allocation, Classroom Courseware in GENI
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