DOC: Supported Clouds

Cloud	Identifier	Access Method	Additional Capabilities	Authors
Parallel Libvirt Manager1 ------------------------------Not maintaned	plm	Native python client (libvirt)	Place VMs on individual Hosts VM suspend/resume	Marcio Silva Michael Hines
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud2 -------------Actively maintaned	ec2	Native python client (boto)	VM suspend/resume VM capture VV creation/attachment	Marcio Silva Michael Hines
OpenStack3 -------------Actively maintaned	osk	Native python client (novaclient)	Place VMs on individual Hosts VM suspend/resume VM capture VV creation/attachment Automatically create "jump host" VM	Marcio Silva
VMware vCloud Director4 -------------Not maintaned	vcd	3rd-party python client (libcloud)	VM suspend/resume VM capture	Daniel Bowers
CloudStack5 -------------Not maintaned	csk	Native python client (cloudstack-python-client)	Place VMs on individual Hosts VM suspend/resume VM capture	YongHun Jeon JaeHoon Jung
IBM Smart Cloud Provisioning6 -------------Not maintaned	scp	XML-RPC with a deployed daemon	VM suspend/resume VM capture	Michael Hines
SoftLayer -------------Actively maintaned	slr	Native python client (softlayer-python)	VM suspend/resume VM capture	Marcio Silva
Google Compute Engine -------------Actively maintaned	gce	Native python client	VM suspend/resume VV creation/attachment	Marcio Silva
Simulated Cloud7 -------------Actively maintaned	sim	None	Place VMs on individual Hosts VM suspend/resume VM capture VV creation/attachment	Marcio Silva
NO Operation Cloud8 -------------Actively maintaned	nop	None	VMs (or Hosts) have to be pre-deployed	Marcio Silva

Comments:

1. Requires preparation of the environment (Hosts with KVM) before it can be used. VM images will have to be manually copied to each Host before starting.
2. None.
3. OpenStack Folsom or newer.
4. None.
5. None.
6. The deployed daemon is part of CBTOOL's code, and works as an "endpoint" for the requests sent by CBTOOL. The deployment means that during cloud attachment, CBTOOL will ssh into the VM "webservice" (part of a normal SCP installation) and copy (and execute) the Ruby daemon originally located on (~/cbtool/scripts/common/scp2_python_proxy.rb).
7. Simulated cloud just creates concrete objects (e.g., Hosts and VMs) and abstract objects (e.g., Virtual Applications) on the Object Store only. Since the each operation takes only 1 second, it is a good way to test your experiment plan before running it on an actual cloud. In addition to that, this "cloud" is heavily used for debugging/development.
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