Welcome to the GENI-ORCA Project

ORCA is a Control Framework to provision virtual networked systems via Secure and Efficient management of Heterogeneous Resources over multiple substrate sites and domains. It was originally developed by the NICL Lab at Duke University, and has lately been joined by the Networking Group at The Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI).

GENI-ORCA is currently funded by the GENI Project Office, as one of the control framework prototypes for GENI, and the flagship project of Cluster D.

ORCA Software releases

ORCA public releases are named after locations where Orca whales are typically sighted.

• Bella (Beta) Nov 2009 [ReleaseNotes?]

• Anacortes (alpha) June 2009

• Pre-alpha tarball March 2009

Future names: Bella, Camano, Dungeness, Eastsound, FourWinds

Setting up ORCA

• Prerequisites for building ORCA
• Instructions for building and deploying GENI-ORCA outside of BEN
  1. Building ORCA from source
  2. Deploying a local ORCA master
  3. Deploying node agents and drivers
• Instructions for running distributed containers
• A reference set up at BEN testbed

ORCA API

• GENI Aggregate Manager (AM) API
• GENI Slice Controller (SC) API
• GENI Clearing House (CH) API

Developing ORCA

1. ORCA development environment
   • Setting up the Development Environment
   • Debugging ORCA
   • Using Git's SVN interoperability instead of making a SVN branch

2. Develop new plug-ins for ORCA
   • New Policy HOWTO?
   • Driver development HOWTO
   • New substrate HOWTO
   • New Broker HOWTO
   • New controller HOWTO

3. NDL based OWL extension and crosslayer transport network provisioning service
   

• New feature discussion in ORCA
  

Documentation

ORCA Documentation Page is a good place to go, for various guidances and manuals in deploying ORCA and customization.
ORCA Guides page at Duke.
ORCA Reading List provides a list of papers/documents essential to understand GENI requirements and ORCA design.

ORCA events

• [GENI GEC 6 Demo Nov 2009]
• [ORCA Beta Release Nov 2009]
• [GENI GEC 5 Demo July 2009]
• ORCA NLR-BEN VLAN demo July 2009
• ORCA-fest May 2009

Project Management

Page template to use when specifying a new task

GENI Spiral 1:

• BenVLAN Phase I: BEN Slicing using VLANs [DONE]
• BEN Phase II: Cross-layer slicing of BEN [DONE] Phases II and on will involve slicing BEN in multiple dimensions, dynamic computation of slices and other capabilities.

• Various todo lists:
  • From Aydan
  • From Jeff (Security Enhancements)
  • from Ilia (NDL and substrates)

GENI Spiral 2:

Various Outdated Notes

• Development Environment
  • LocalOrcaCompile - how to build ORCA
  • DomU Images - building ORCA-compliant DomU images
  • ZFS Configuration - ZFS server configuration
  • Xen Zfs Handler Customization - How to customize the Xen+ZFS handler
  • Eclipse Setup - how to setup eclipse and import a project
  • Orca Maven Repository and Project Web Page - how to deploy artifacts to Orca's maven repository and project web site
• Eucalyptus
  • EcualyptusNetworking - misc notes on networking in Eucalyptus
  • GoEucalyptus - more on networking woes in Eucalyptus
• ORCA and networks
  • NetworkSetup - discusses networking terminology in ORCA
  • ORCA and VLANs - notes on VLAN setup

Enjoy!
The ORCA team at RENCI and Duke