Enhanced and Automated Virtual Machine Provisioning to Online E-assessment using Openstack Cloud

Vigneshwaran P

Abstract: This paper consist of system that efficiently uses the cloud resource provisioning for conducting E-Assessment and automates the resource maintenance in the cloud environment to reduce user activity in cloud management. Openstack is fully open source and it is supported by many popular organizations like Rackspace, HP, Cisco, etc. The proposed solution efficiently uses OpenStack cloud computing resources for provisioning resource to conduct online E-Assessment in order to have auto provisioning and manage load that comes in during situation where increase in users count who are trying to write exams in the Cloud.

Keywords: OpenStack, Nova, E-Learning, Cloud Computing, Cloud Automation