SEMESTER VIII
YEAR IV
COURSE CODE 21CS4806
TITLE OF THE CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT
COURSE
SCHEME OF Lecture Tutorial Practical Seminar/Projects Total Credits
INSTRUCTION Hours Hours Hours Hours Hours
3 - - 39 3
Perquisite Courses (if any):
# Sem/Year Course Code Title of the Course
* *** * ***
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
Understand Cloud Computing architecture for various Cloud based enterprises,
challenges, workflow and architectural style of cloud computing.
Comprehend Cloud Enabling Technologies that includes: virtualization
technologies and their role in cloud computing, Differentiate between full and
para virtualization, and Cloud resource management and scheduling
Analyze Cloud storage Mechanisms and evaluate various infrastructure
components in a cloud environment
Identify common security challenges in cloud computing, Discuss security and
privacy concern for cloud users, virtual machines and shared images.
Evaluate the key technologies used in Xen VMM and various cloud applications
COURSE OUTCOMES:
Bloom’s
Course
Description Taxonomy
Outcome
Level
At the end of the course the student will be able to:
Examine the cloud computing infrastructure at Amazon,
1 L4
Google, and Microsoft and analyse the challenges of cloud.
Identify the different layers of virtualization and make use
2 of the proper scheduling algorithm to manage the L3
resources.
Compare the different types of file system used in cloud
3 environment and analyze the transaction process using L4, L5
NoSQL databases.
Analyze the core issues of cloud computing, such as
4 L4
security, privacy, and interoperability.
Evaluate the effectiveness of different cloud computing
5 L5
solutions for various applications.
COURSE CONTENT:
MODULE 1: Cloud Infrastructure and Application Paradigms 9Hrs
Cloud computing at Amazon, Cloud computing the Google perspective, Microsoft Windows
Azure and online services, Open source software platforms for private clouds, Cloud
storage diversity and vendor lock-in, Energy use and ecological impact, Service level
agreements, User experience and software licensing. (Textbook-1: Chapter 3: 67-95).
Challenges of cloud computing, Architectural styles of cloud computing, Workflows:
Coordination of multiple activities, Coordination based on a state machine model: The
Zookeeper, The Map Reduce programming model. (Textbook-1: Chapter 4: 99-115).
MODULE 2: Virtualization and Resource Management & Scheduling 9Hrs
Virtualization, Layering and virtualization, Virtual machine monitors, Virtual Machines,
Performance and Security Isolation, Full virtualization and para virtualization, Hardware
support for virtualization. (Textbook-1: Chapter 5: 132-142).
Cloud Resource Management and Scheduling: Policies and mechanisms for resource
management, Stability of a two level resource allocation architecture, Scheduling
algorithms for computing clouds, Fair queuing, Start-time fair queuing, Borrowed virtual
time, Cloud scheduling subject to deadlines, Scheduling MapReduce applications subject to
deadlines, Resource management and dynamic scaling.
(Textbook-1: Chapter 6: 164, 182-201).
MODULE 3: Cloud Storage Structure 7Hrs
The Evolution of Storage Technology, Storage Models, File Systems, and Databases,
Distributed File Systems: The Precursors, General Parallel File System, Google File
System, Apache Hadoop, Locks and Chubby: A Locking Service, Transaction Processing
and NoSQL Databases, BigTable, Megastore. (Textbook-1: Chapter 8: 242-278).
MODULE 4 : Cloud Security and Mechanisms 7Hrs
Cloud Security, Cloud Application Development: Cloud security risks, Security: The top
concern for cloud users, Privacy and privacy impact assessment, Trust, Operating system
security, Virtual machine Security, Security of virtualization, Security risks posed by shared
images, Security risks posed by a management OS, A trusted virtual machine monitor.
(Textbook-1: Chapter 9: 274-298).
MODULE 5 : Case Study 7Hrs
The Grep The Web application, Cloud for science and engineering, High performance
computing on a cloud, Cloud computing for Social computing, digital content and cloud
computing (Textbook-1: Chapter 4: 118-128).
Xen a VMM based para virtualization, Optimization of network virtualization, vBlades,
Performance comparison of virtual machines, The dark side of virtualization
(Textbook-1: Chapter 5: 144-156).
TEXT BOOKS:
1. Cloud Computing: Theory and Practice, Dan C Marinescu Elsevier (MK), 2013.
REFERENCE BOOKS:
1. Computing Principles and Paradigms, RajkumarBuyya , James Broberg,
Andrzej Goscinsk,i Willey, 2014.
2. Cloud Computing Implementation, Management and Security John W
Rittinghouse, James F Ransome, CRC Press, 2013.
