Towards to Characterization of Network Management Traffic in OpenStack-Based Clouds

OpenStack is versatile and popular, allowing full customization for creating private or public IaaS clouds. This work addresses a network traffic analysis and characterization for the management domain inside OpenStack clouds. We conduct an induced lifecycle to execute virtual machine (VM)-related tasks, measure the traffic, and identify the services behind the traffic generated by these operations. Also, we analyze the impact of different images of operating systems (OSs) and VM’s flavor in the measured traffic. Moreover, we observe that predicting the volume of network traffic from operations, such as creation and shelving instances of VMs, helps estimate bandwidth boundaries, avoiding bottlenecks, for example.