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There appears to be some overlap of this proposal with 'climate' which provides a resource reservation system.

They meet regularly ... see https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/Climate for contacts.

Tim

From: Alan Tan [mailto:yst1 at students.waikato.ac.nz]
Sent: 16 December 2013 23:42
To: openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org
Subject: [openstack-dev] a time-based resource management system

Hi everyone,

My name is Alan and I am from the Cyber Security Lab in University of Waikato.

We have recently started deploying and using Openstack in our experimental private cloud testbed. The cloud testbed is mainly used in running our research and teaching purposes. However, we notice that current Openstack lacks the ability to control and manage user's access to resources in a time-based manner.

I.e. Current model for private clouds requires either the user to release their resources (VMs) voluntarily or for the administrators to manually remove the resources (VMs).

This makes capacity management a laborious effort in private clouds that have a large user base. Hence, we have come up with the idea of an automatic time-based resource management system that manages user access to resources in a time slot booking style. We have detailed our plans and design in the following wiki page. We would love to hear feedbacks from the community and hopefully gather some interest in our project.

https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Cafe

We look forward to hearing from you. We can be contacted via email. Our addresses are listed on the wiki page.

Thanks and have a good day.

Cheers,
Alan

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