Inception

Overview

Inception enables you to launch OpenStack-in-OpenStack clouds, i.e., Inception Clouds, which are built entirely on top of the virtual resources acquired from today’s clouds, and provide nested VMs to end users.

Inception Clouds enable:

• Acceleration of continuous integration for open-source cloud management software such as OpenStack

• Hypervisor flexibility: VM live migration, VM replication for high availability, instant VM spawning under high load demand, intrusion detection by customizing Dom0 firewall...

• App-specific resource allocation: customize subscription ratio, VM consolidation

• Low operation overhead: no physical metals, therefore no worry on issues like cooling, power, cabling, rack design, malfunctioned hardware replacement, data center real estate

• Spanning across multiple providers: both private and public clouds over geographically wide area

Essentially, Inception Clouds enable entire control of your cloud, with even less operation overhead.

For more information, please refer to our HotCloud'13 paper

 http://www2.research.att.com/~changbl/pubs/Inception_Towards_a_Nested_Cloud_Architecture.pdf

The code is rapidly evolving, and we preparing user document. Stay tuned!