Dataset on resource allocation and usage for a private cloud

While public cloud providers dominate the commercial landscape, private clouds are widely adopted by academic and research institutions to meet specific governance and operational requirements. There are multiple available datasets about resource usage of public clouds; however, datasets capturing usage patterns in private clouds remain scarce, which limits research in this area. This work presents a dataset comprising over 64 million records collected from a private OpenStack-based cloud operated by the Distributed Systems Laboratory at the Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil. Data was continuously gathered over nearly twelve months (May 23, 2024 to May 16, 2025), periodically querying OpenStack APIs and monitoring services every five minutes. The dataset captures different aspects of the infrastructure, allocation quotas, user-to-project associations (as OpenStack groups users into projects), server (virtual machines) specifications, and resource utilization for users and projects. Entries are timestamped, enabling temporal analyses of system dynamics. Sensitive attributes, such as user names, project names, IP addresses, and server names were protected, leaving only system-generated UUIDs. By offering a detailed, time-stamped, view of a private cloud, this dataset provides a valuable resource for cloud computing research, helping to bridge the gap in publicly available datasets from non-commercial cloud environments. The dataset is valuable not only for academic institutions but also for companies considering cloud repatriation.

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Data in Brief
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2026-01-30
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2026.112514
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Cloud Computing and Resource Management
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Dataset on resource allocation and usage for a private cloud

Thiago Emmanuel Pereira, Mariana Mendes, Giovanni Ferreira de. FARIAS, Paola Marques
Data in Brief
Cloud Computing and Resource Management
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Dataset on resource allocation and usage for a private cloud

Thiago Emmanuel Pereira, Mariana Mendes, Giovanni Ferreira de. FARIAS, Paola Marques
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Abstract

While public cloud providers dominate the commercial landscape, private clouds are widely adopted by academic and research institutions to meet specific governance and operational requirements. There are multiple available datasets about resource usage of public clouds; however, datasets capturing usage patterns in private clouds remain scarce, which limits research in this area. This work presents a dataset comprising over 64 million records collected from a private OpenStack-based cloud operated by the Distributed Systems Laboratory at the Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil. Data was continuously gathered over nearly twelve months (May 23, 2024 to May 16, 2025), periodically querying OpenStack APIs and monitoring services every five minutes. The dataset captures different aspects of the infrastructure, allocation quotas, user-to-project associations (as OpenStack groups users into projects), server (virtual machines) specifications, and resource utilization for users and projects. Entries are timestamped, enabling temporal analyses of system dynamics. Sensitive attributes, such as user names, project names, IP addresses, and server names were protected, leaving only system-generated UUIDs. By offering a detailed, time-stamped, view of a private cloud, this dataset provides a valuable resource for cloud computing research, helping to bridge the gap in publicly available datasets from non-commercial cloud environments. The dataset is valuable not only for academic institutions but also for companies considering cloud repatriation.

Data in BriefVol. 65
Universidade Federal de Campina Grande (BR)
Industry, innovation and infrastructure
Openalex Percentile: Top 82%
Cloud Computing and Resource Management
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