ISONI white paper

The core of the IRMOS Infrastructure-as-a-Service layer is the Intelligent Service Oriented Network Infrastructure (ISONI). From a resource provider's point of view, a major challenge is to offer service providers sufficient degrees of freedom regarding the selection of resources while enforcing certain restrictions to prevent unwanted crosstalk between services deployed by different service providers. ISONI is a framework for automated provisioning of multi-component services in a fully virtualized resource environment in compliance with QoS guarantees. It consists of a network of resources (including CPU, storage, networking and software) managed and controlled by an ISONI middleware that allows resource sharing among multiple services, while guaranteeing each service’s QoS levels. Aspects such as network isolation, automatic configuration of virtual machines, automatic provisioning and deployment are incorporated in the ISONI framework in order to achieve the aforementioned goals. The ISONI White Paper v2.0, with greater details regarding the architecture and concepts, has been released and can be found here.