Virtualisierung und Cloud Computing gehören derzeit zu den wichtigsten Schlagworten für Betreiber von IT Infrastrukturen. Es gibt eine Vielzahl unterschiedlicher Technologien, Produkte und Geschäftsmodelle für vollkommen verschiedene Anwendungsszenarien. Die vorliegende Studie gibt zunächst einen detaillierten Überblick über aktuelle Entwicklungen in Konzepten und Technologien der Virtualisierungstechnologie – von klassischer Servervirtualisierung über Infrastrukturen für virtuelle Arbeitsplätze bis zur Anwendungsvirtualisierung und macht den Versuch einer Klassifikation der Virtualisierungsvarianten. Bei der Betrachtung des Cloud Computing-Konzepts werden deren Grundzüge sowie verschiedene Architekturvarianten und Anwendungsfälle eingeführt. Die ausführliche Untersuchung von Vorteilen des Cloud Computing sowie möglicher Bedenken, die bei der Nutzung von Cloud-Ressourcen im Unternehmen beachtet werden müssen, zeigt, dass Cloud Computing zwar große Chancen bietet, aber nicht für jede Anwendung und nicht für jeden rechtlichen und wirtschaftlichen Rahmen in Frage kommt.. Die anschließende Marktübersicht für Virtualisierungstechnologie zeigt, dass die großen Hersteller – Citrix, Microsoft und VMware – jeweils Produkte für fast alle Virtualisierungsvarianten anbieten und hebt entscheidende Unterschiede bzw. die Stärken der jeweiligen Anbieter heraus. So ist beispielsweise die Lösung von Citrix für Virtual Desktop Infrastructures sehr ausgereift, während Microsoft hier nur auf Standardtechnologie zurückgreifen kann. VMware hat als Marktführer die größte Verbreitung in Rechenzentren gefunden und bietet als einziger Hersteller echte Fehlertoleranz. Microsoft hingegen punktet mit der nahtlosen Integration ihrer Virtualisierungsprodukte in bestehende Windows-Infrastrukturen. Im Bereich der Cloud Computing-Systeme zeigen sich einige quelloffene Softwareprojekte, die durchaus für den produktiven Betrieb von sogenannten privaten Clouds geeignet sind. / Virtualization and Cloud Computing belong to the most important issues for operators of large ICT infrastructures today. There are a large number of various technologies, products, and business models for entirely different application scenarios. The study at hand gives a detailed overview on latest developments in concepts and technologies of virtualization – beginning with classic server virtualization, continuing with infrastructures for virtual workplaces, through to application virtualization and makes an attempt to classify all these variants of virtualization. When investigating on the concepts of Cloud Computing, the report introduces basic principles as well as different types of architecture and use cases. The extensive analysis of benefits of Cloud Computing and possible reservations when using cloud resources within an enterprise context is evidence that Cloud Computing offers great opportunities, but is not worth considering for any kind of application scenario, legal framework or business scenario. The subsequent market study on virtualization technology shows that each of the major manufacturers – Citrix, Microsoft, and VMware – offer products for any variant of virtualization and highlights the important differences between the products and the respective strengths of the vendors. For example, the Citrix solution on Virtual Desktop Infrastructures comes up very well-engineered, while Microsoft can only rely on standard technology in this field. VMware, the market leader in virtualization technology, has gained the biggest popularity in data centers and offers the only product implementing real fault tolerance. On the other hand, Microsoft is able to score with seamless integration of their virtualization products into existing Windows-based infrastructures. In the area of Cloud Computing systems, there are some open source software projects that are very possibly suitable for the productive operation of so called private clouds.

The ubiquity and speed of Internet access led over the past decade to an exponential increase in the use of thin clients and cloud computing, both taking advantage of the ability to remotely provide computing resources. The work investigates the role of remote display Protocol in behavioral biometric systems based on free-text keystroke dynamics. Authentication based on keystroke dynamics is easy in use, cheap, invisible for user and does not require any additional sensor.I n this project I will investigate how network characteristics affect the keystroke dynamics pattern in remote desktop scenario. Objectives: The aim of this project is to investigate the role of remote display Protocol in behavioral biometric system based on free-text keystroke dynamics, by measuring how network characteristics influence the computation of keystroke pattern in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). Method: This thesis will answer all of its research question with the help of a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) and an Experiment. Literature review was conducted to gather information about the keystroke dynamics analysis, the applied algorithms and their performance; and to clarify the controlled changes of networking performance in VDI based scenario. Using the acquired knowledge, implemented keystroke dynamics pattern algorithm based on Euclidian distance statistical method, designed an experiment and performed a series of tests, in order to identify the influence of remote display protocol to keystroke pattern. Results: Through the SLR, keystroke dynamics analysis working structure is identified and illustrated, essential elements are summarized, and a statistical approach based on Euclidian distance is described; a technique to simulate and measure networklatency in VDI scenario is described including essential elements and parameters of VDI testbed. Keystroke analysis algorithm, dataset replication code and VDItestbed are implemented. The controlled experiment provided measurements of the metrics of the algorithm and network performance mentioned in objectives. Conclusions: During experimentation, I found that timing pattern in the keystroke dynamics data is affected by VDI in normal network conditions by 12% in average. Higher latency standard deviation, jitter, packet loss as well as remote display protocol overheads have a significant combined impact onto keystroke pattern. Moreover I found what maximum possible delay values does not affect keystroke pattern in a larger extent.

I en värld där kraven på flexibilitet, säkerhet och hårdvaruoptimering är nyckelfaktorer när det kommer till att välja IT-miljöer för företag blir virtuella skrivbord mer och mer poulära. Med dessa miljöer finns det också problem när det kommer till användarupplevelsen om nätverket ifråga inte kan uppfylla de krav som ett sådant system ställer. I detta arbete undersöks implikationerna vissa nätverksvariabler kan ha för en Virtual Desktop-infrastruktur, VDI. För att belysa dessa problem har två tester utförts på en VDI miljö. Det första testet gick ut på att mäta latensen då skrivbordsmiljön renderades för klienten från virtualiseringsservern vid olika nätverksdiamterar. Det andra testet gick ut på att mäta samma latens vid olika nätverksbelasting på anslutningen mellan klienten och virtualiseringsservern. När det blev tydligt att nyckelfaktorn var nätverksbelastningen skapades ett test för att undersöka klientens möjlighet till påverkan av bandbredden. Överföringen av data till användarens lokala skrivbord som i förlängningen huseras på virtualiseringsservern tog upp hela bandbredden och lämnade inget för VDI-trafiken och stänger i förlängningen ner hela VDI systemet. Detta löstes genom att implementera Quality Of Service medelst Traffic Policing . Därmed kan användarens möjlighet att nyttja bandbredden till virtualiseringsservern begränsas. / In a world where the demand for flexibility, security, and hardware optimization are key factors when it comes to implementing a corporate IT environment Virtual Desktop solutions a gaining more and more ground. With these environments there are also issues when it comes to user experience if the network in question is unable to fulfill the specifications that such an environment requires. We have looked at the implications some network variables might have for a VDI solution. To shed a light on these issues we have conducted two tests in an VDI environment. The first test consisted of measuring the latency at which the desktop on the client was rendered from the virtualization server at different network sizes. The second test was to measure the same latency at different bandwidth loads on the line between the client and the Virtualization Host. As we realised that the key factor was the bandwidth load, we made a test to measure the way a client could influence that bandwidth. We saw that by transferring data to the desktop (i.e. the Virtualization Host) one user could personally take up the whole bandwidth and leave noting for the VDI traffic, rendering it useless. This was solved by implementing Quality of Service in the form of Traffic policing, thus restricting the amount of bandwidth the user could use for file transfers.

Resumo: Para simplificar o gerenciamento de computadores, vários sistemas de administração estruturados por conexões físicas adotam técnicas avançadas para gestão de configuração de software. No entanto, a forte ligação entre hardware e o software faz com que haja uma individualização desta gerência, além da penalização da mobilidade e ubiqüidade do poder computacional. Neste cenário, cada computador torna-se uma entidade individual a ser gerenciada, exigindo operações manuais de configuração da imagem de sistema. Tecnologias que oferecem gestão centralizada baseadas em conexões físicas cliente-servidor, combinando técnicas de virtualização com a utilização de sistemas de arquivos distribuídos, refletem a degradação em flexibilidade e facilidade de instalação deste sistema gerenciador. Outras arquiteturas para gerenciamento centralizado que estruturam o compartilhamento de dados através de conexões físicas e dependem do protocolo PXE, apresentam os mesmos impasses descritos anteriormente. Diante das limitações dos modelos de gerenciamento centralizado baseado em conexões físicas, o objetivo deste trabalho é o desenvolvimento de um middleware de comunicação cliente-servidor como parte integrante e necessária para um ambiente de gerenciamento centralizado em redes de comunicações sem fio. Este ambiente, denominado WSE-OS (Wireless Sharing Enviroment ? Operating Systems), é um modelo baseado Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) que associa técnicas de virtualização e sistema de acesso remoto seguro para criação de uma arquitetura distribuída como base de um sistema de gestão. WSE-OS é capaz de realizar a replicação de sistemas operacionais em um ambiente de comunicação sem fio além de oferecer abstração de hardware aos clientes. O WSE-OS pode substituir o boot local com disco rígido por um boot de uma Imagem de Sistema Única... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: To simplify computer management, various administration systems structured with physical connections adopt advanced techniques to manage software configuration. Nevertheless, the strong link between hardware and software makes for an individualism of that management, besides penalizing computational mobility and ubiquity. In this scenario, each computer becomes an individual entity to be managed, requiring manual operations of the system image configuration. Technologies that offer centralized management based on client-server physical connections, combining virtualization techniques with the use of distributed file systems in clusters with distributed processing on network computers reflect the deterioration in flexibility and ease of installation and maintenance of distributed applications. Other architectures for centralized management that structure the sharing of data through physical connections and depend on the PXE protocol, present the same dilemmas described above. Given the limitations models of centralized management based on physical connections, the objective of this project is the development of a middleware for client-server communication as part necessary of an environment for centralized management in wireless communications networks. This environment, called WSE-OS (Wireless Sharing Environment ? Operating Systems), is a model based Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), which combines virtualization techniques and secure access system for creating a distributed architecture as the basis for a management system. WSE-OS is capable of replicating operating systems in a wireless environment, addition to providing hardware abstraction to clients. The WSE-OS can replace the boot with local hard disk to a boot from SSI (Single System Image) virtualized in server via communication middleware, increasing flexibility and allowing multiple operating systems... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Orientador: Marcos Antônio Cavenaghi / Coorientador: Roberta Spolon / Banca: João Paulo Papa / Banca: Regina Helena Carlucci Santana / Mestre

Orientador: Roberta Spolon / Banca: João Paulo Papa / Banca: Regina Helena Carlucci Santana / Resumo: O maior custo de propriedade de computadores não é o hardware ou o software, mas sim o tempo que os profissionais de informática gastam em suporte e manutenção dos ambientes computacionais. Em um conglomerado de computadores em rede, cada computador torna- se uma entidade gerenciada individualmente, o que gera contínuas solicitações de alterações de configuração, como instalação de atualizações de software, conexão e configuração de periféricos, criação de perfis de e-mail e aplicação de patches. Além disso, existe ainda o risco de furto de dados e invasão por hackers quando os computadores dos usuários não estão protegidos. Aliado a este cenário, a constante evolução dos sistemas computacionais e seu potencial de processamento, a cada dia são necessárias novas técnicas de aproveitamento destes recursos. Soluções que visam facilitar o gerenciamento de ambientes com grande massa de computadores de forma a tirar o máximo proveito do poder computacional concentrado em servidores já se tornaram necessidades reais, não só em grandes corporações, mas também em pequenas e médias empresas, além de outros tipos organizações, como por exemplo, instituições de ensino. Frente esta necessidade, focando uma ferramenta compatível neste cenário de crescimento, este trabalho apresenta um modelo de gerenciamento centralizado, nomeado WSE-OS (Wireless Sharing Environment - Operating Systems), baseado em técnicas de virtualização e acesso remoto seguro combinadas a um sistema de arquivos remotos em espaço de usuário. Esta solução elimina a necessidade da instalação e configuração de aplicativos "máquina a máquina", além de tirar maior proveito do poder computacional existente nos servidores. A principal característica deste modelo que o destaca das soluções atuais é que ele é especificamente elaborado para operar sobre redes... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: The largest cost of desktop ownership is not the hardware or software, but the time that administrators spend on support and maintenance of computing environments. In a conglomerate of computers in a network, each computer becomes an entity managed individually, which generates continuous requests for configuration changes, such as installing software updates, configuration and connection of peripherals, profiling email and applying patches. Moreover, there is the risk of data theft and hacking when users' computers are not protected. Allied to this scenario, the constant evolution of computer systems and their potential for processing, each day requires new techniques for exploitation of these resources. Solutions aimed facilitating the management of environments with large mass of computers to take maximum advantage of computing power concentrated on servers have become real needs, not only in large corporations but also small and medium enterprises, besides other types organizations, such as educational institutions. Facing this need, focusing on a tool that supported this growth scenario, this work presents a centralized management model, named WSE-OS (Wireless Sharing Environment - Operating Systems) based on virtualization techniques and secure remote access combined with a remote file system in user space. This solution eliminates the need for installing and configuring applications "machine to machine", besides take greater advantage of existing computing power on the servers . The main feature of this model that highlights the current solutions is that it is specifically designed to operate on networks with low transmission rates, such as wireless networks. The WSE-OS is able to perform the replication of operating system images in an environment with WLAN communication, which makes management more flexible and independent of physical connections, besides offer... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:29:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2011-03-31Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:59:30Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 digiere_ar_me_sjrp.pdf: 1496121 bytes, checksum: 2cc2450b0bec5e0610a6820222483893 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / O maior custo de propriedade de computadores não é o hardware ou o software, mas sim o tempo que os profissionais de informática gastam em suporte e manutenção dos ambientes computacionais. Em um conglomerado de computadores em rede, cada computador torna- se uma entidade gerenciada individualmente, o que gera contínuas solicitações de alterações de configuração, como instalação de atualizações de software, conexão e configuração de periféricos, criação de perfis de e-mail e aplicação de patches. Além disso, existe ainda o risco de furto de dados e invasão por hackers quando os computadores dos usuários não estão protegidos. Aliado a este cenário, a constante evolução dos sistemas computacionais e seu potencial de processamento, a cada dia são necessárias novas técnicas de aproveitamento destes recursos. Soluções que visam facilitar o gerenciamento de ambientes com grande massa de computadores de forma a tirar o máximo proveito do poder computacional concentrado em servidores já se tornaram necessidades reais, não só em grandes corporações, mas também em pequenas e médias empresas, além de outros tipos organizações, como por exemplo, instituições de ensino. Frente esta necessidade, focando uma ferramenta compatível neste cenário de crescimento, este trabalho apresenta um modelo de gerenciamento centralizado, nomeado WSE-OS (Wireless Sharing Environment – Operating Systems), baseado em técnicas de virtualização e acesso remoto seguro combinadas a um sistema de arquivos remotos em espaço de usuário. Esta solução elimina a necessidade da instalação e configuração de aplicativos “máquina a máquina”, além de tirar maior proveito do poder computacional existente nos servidores. A principal característica deste modelo que o destaca das soluções atuais é que ele é especificamente elaborado para operar sobre redes... / The largest cost of desktop ownership is not the hardware or software, but the time that administrators spend on support and maintenance of computing environments. In a conglomerate of computers in a network, each computer becomes an entity managed individually, which generates continuous requests for configuration changes, such as installing software updates, configuration and connection of peripherals, profiling email and applying patches. Moreover, there is the risk of data theft and hacking when users' computers are not protected. Allied to this scenario, the constant evolution of computer systems and their potential for processing, each day requires new techniques for exploitation of these resources. Solutions aimed facilitating the management of environments with large mass of computers to take maximum advantage of computing power concentrated on servers have become real needs, not only in large corporations but also small and medium enterprises, besides other types organizations, such as educational institutions. Facing this need, focusing on a tool that supported this growth scenario, this work presents a centralized management model, named WSE-OS (Wireless Sharing Environment – Operating Systems) based on virtualization techniques and secure remote access combined with a remote file system in user space. This solution eliminates the need for installing and configuring applications machine to machine, besides take greater advantage of existing computing power on the servers . The main feature of this model that highlights the current solutions is that it is specifically designed to operate on networks with low transmission rates, such as wireless networks. The WSE-OS is able to perform the replication of operating system images in an environment with WLAN communication, which makes management more flexible and independent of physical connections, besides offer... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:29:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2011-03-31Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T18:59:19Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 crepaldi_lg_me_sjrp.pdf: 1446703 bytes, checksum: 5212981cdddeca5acc9e64906c893d50 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) / Para simplificar o gerenciamento de computadores, vários sistemas de administração estruturados por conexões físicas adotam técnicas avançadas para gestão de configuração de software. No entanto, a forte ligação entre hardware e o software faz com que haja uma individualização desta gerência, além da penalização da mobilidade e ubiqüidade do poder computacional. Neste cenário, cada computador torna-se uma entidade individual a ser gerenciada, exigindo operações manuais de configuração da imagem de sistema. Tecnologias que oferecem gestão centralizada baseadas em conexões físicas cliente-servidor, combinando técnicas de virtualização com a utilização de sistemas de arquivos distribuídos, refletem a degradação em flexibilidade e facilidade de instalação deste sistema gerenciador. Outras arquiteturas para gerenciamento centralizado que estruturam o compartilhamento de dados através de conexões físicas e dependem do protocolo PXE, apresentam os mesmos impasses descritos anteriormente. Diante das limitações dos modelos de gerenciamento centralizado baseado em conexões físicas, o objetivo deste trabalho é o desenvolvimento de um middleware de comunicação cliente-servidor como parte integrante e necessária para um ambiente de gerenciamento centralizado em redes de comunicações sem fio. Este ambiente, denominado WSE-OS (Wireless Sharing Enviroment ? Operating Systems), é um modelo baseado Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) que associa técnicas de virtualização e sistema de acesso remoto seguro para criação de uma arquitetura distribuída como base de um sistema de gestão. WSE-OS é capaz de realizar a replicação de sistemas operacionais em um ambiente de comunicação sem fio além de oferecer abstração de hardware aos clientes. O WSE-OS pode substituir o boot local com disco rígido por um boot de uma Imagem de Sistema Única... / To simplify computer management, various administration systems structured with physical connections adopt advanced techniques to manage software configuration. Nevertheless, the strong link between hardware and software makes for an individualism of that management, besides penalizing computational mobility and ubiquity. In this scenario, each computer becomes an individual entity to be managed, requiring manual operations of the system image configuration. Technologies that offer centralized management based on client-server physical connections, combining virtualization techniques with the use of distributed file systems in clusters with distributed processing on network computers reflect the deterioration in flexibility and ease of installation and maintenance of distributed applications. Other architectures for centralized management that structure the sharing of data through physical connections and depend on the PXE protocol, present the same dilemmas described above. Given the limitations models of centralized management based on physical connections, the objective of this project is the development of a middleware for client-server communication as part necessary of an environment for centralized management in wireless communications networks. This environment, called WSE-OS (Wireless Sharing Environment ? Operating Systems), is a model based Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), which combines virtualization techniques and secure access system for creating a distributed architecture as the basis for a management system. WSE-OS is capable of replicating operating systems in a wireless environment, addition to providing hardware abstraction to clients. The WSE-OS can replace the boot with local hard disk to a boot from SSI (Single System Image) virtualized in server via communication middleware, increasing flexibility and allowing multiple operating systems... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)