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

1. Learn more about the tool
2. Perform the initial installation
3. Run the tool for the first time
4. Prepare a VM image to be used with the tool
5. Run simple experiments
6. Look at some auto generated plots made from the data collected.
7. Read our latest paper (to appear in IC2E 2013).
8. Try to get connected with the Graphical Wizard
9. Try administrating the tool with the Graphical Environment
10. Then try monitoring your experiments with the Graphical Environment
11. Try to customize your dashboard monitoring data with filters in the Graphical Environment
12. Read the Frequently Asked Questions

• 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.

1. Amazon EC2
2. OpenStack
3. IBM SCP and IBM SCE
4. "pure" Libvirt+KVM or Libvirt+XEN (soon)
5. VMWare vCloud (in progress)

Contacts:

Marcio Silva marcios@us.ibm.com