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Welcome to the Cloud Rapid Experimentation and Analysis Toolkit

Cloud Rapid Experimentation and Analysis Tool (aka CBTOOL) is a framework that automates IaaS cloud benchmarking through the running of controlled experiments.

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• Users: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/cbtool-users

• Development: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/cbtool-devel

New! CloudBench is now released as a component of SPEC Cloud IaaS 2016

To get started:

1. Learn more about the tool

2. Perform the initial installation

3. Run the tool for the first time

4. Prepare your cloud to be driven by the tool

5. Prepare a VM image to be used with the tool

6. Deploy your first Virtual Application

7. Run simple experiments

8. If needed, debug the initial setup

9. [Configure CBTOOL to run outside of the cloud (or with multiple tenant networks)] (https://github.com/ibmcb/cbtool/wiki/HOWTO:-Run-the-CloudBench-orchestrator-outside-of-the-cloud-(or-with-multiple-tenant-networks))

   1. Detailed instructions on how to use OpenVPN support

10. Look at some auto generated plots made from the data collected.

11. Read our latest paper IC2E 2013.

12. Try to get connected with the Graphical Wizard

13. Try administrating the tool with the Graphical Environment

14. Then try monitoring your experiments with the Graphical Environment

15. Try to customize your dashboard monitoring data with filters in the Graphical Environment

16. Read the Frequently Asked Questions

Features:

• Automatic deployment and controlled execution of multiple multi-tier applications. Each individual application can have a specific load profile using probability distributions.
• Adapters for multiple clouds (EC2 and OpenStack, among others), with a plugin structure that allows new cloud models to be added incrementally.
• Can orchestrate different arrival rates and lifetimes for VMs using probability distributions.
• Collects application and system (OS) performance data from hosts and guests in real time.
• It is designed from the ground up to be highly scalable and parallel.

Supported Clouds:

1. Amazon EC2
2. OpenStack (and RackSpace)
3. Google Compute Engine
4. DigitalOcean
5. Docker/Swarm
6. LXD/LXC
7. Kubernetes
8. Libvirt+KVM or Libvirt+XEN (soon)
9. VMWare vCloud
10. CloudStack
11. SoftLayer

Supported Workloads

To get the most current list, start CBTOOL and type typelist on the CLI. To get more information about a given workload, typeshow <workload name>.

Contacts:

Marcio Silva [email protected] Michael R. Hines [email protected]