Managing Performance Overhead of Virtual Machines in Cloud Computing: A Survey, State of the Art, and Future Directions

Xu, Fei; Liu, Fangming; Jin, Hai; Vasilakos, Athanasios V.

doi:10.1109/jproc.2013.2287711

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“…In addition, according to the literature review, it seems that VM performance overhead [52] can affect the system availability. Furthermore, the high availability common techniques such as VM migration can also affect the VM performance overhead.…”

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Reliability and high availability in cloud computing environments: a reference roadmap

Mesbahi

Rahmani

Hosseinzadeh

2018

Hum. Cent. Comput. Inf. Sci.

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Reliability and high availability have always been a major concern in distributed systems. Providing highly available and reliable services in cloud computing is essential for maintaining customer confidence and satisfaction and preventing revenue losses. Although various solutions have been proposed for cloud availability and reliability, but there are no comprehensive studies that completely cover all different aspects in the problem. This paper presented a ‘Reference Roadmap’ of reliability and high availability in cloud computing environments. A big picture was proposed which was divided into four steps specifying through four pivotal questions starting with ‘Where?’, ‘Which?’, ‘When?’ and ‘How?’ keywords. The desirable result of having a highly available and reliable cloud system could be gained by answering these questions. Each step of this reference roadmap proposed a specific concern of a special portion of the issue. Two main research gaps were proposed by this reference roadmap.

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“…There is a serious gap in cloud computing fault tolerance research area, that is, the mutual impact of cloud performance overhead [52,[114][115][116][117] and HA solutions.…”

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Reliability and high availability in cloud computing environments: a reference roadmap

Mesbahi

Rahmani

Hosseinzadeh

2018

Hum. Cent. Comput. Inf. Sci.

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“…The bandwidth of this physical path of links needs to be shared between the two virtual datacenters; moreover, the actual physical bandwidth needs to be enough to accommodate the required bandwidths for the two virtual links (of course, the path links might also be currently used by other virtual datacenter embeddings). Implementing full-blown virtualization is incredibly difficult to achieve and is a vibrant area of research, with embedding just one aspect of virtualization (albeit a significant one); there are many other (more practical) aspects to consider too such as scalability, fault tolerance, security, performance isolation, and monitoring (the reader is referred to recent surveys [5,56,60] for detailed accounts of the current state of the art as regards datacenter virtualization).…”

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The influence of datacenter usage on symmetry in datacenter network design

Stewart

Erickson

2017

J Supercomput

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We undertake the first formal analysis of the role of symmetry, interpreted broadly, in the design of server-centric datacenter networks. Although symmetry has been mentioned by other researchers, we explicitly relate it to various specific, structural, graph-theoretic properties of datacenter networks. Our analysis of symmetry is motivated by the need to ascertain the usefulness of a datacenter network as regards the support of network virtualization and prevalent communication patterns in multitenanted clouds. We argue that a number of structural concepts relating to symmetry from general interconnection networks, such as recursive-definability, the existence and dynamic construction of spanning trees, pancyclicity, and variations in Hamiltonicity, are appropriate topological metrics to use in this regard. In relation to symmetry, we highlight the relevance of algebraic properties and algebraic constructions within datacenter network design. Built upon our analysis of symmetry, we outline the first technique to embed guest datacenter networks in a host datacenter network that is specifically oriented towards server-centric datacenter networks. In short, we provide the graph-theoretic foundations for the design of server-centric datacenter networks so as to support network virtualization and communication patterns in cloud computing.

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“…While, to our best knowledge, no existing work has considered consolidating Internet applications whose performance can be tuned by not only vertical scaling but also horizontal scaling for improving energy efficiency. Besides, all of these existing works changed the VM-to-PM mapping by migration leading to non-negligible performance loss and energy overhead [4,[35][36][37]. In this paper, we consolidate Internet applications taking both vertical and horizontal scaling into account.…”

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Server Consolidation for Internet Applications in Virtualized Data Centers

Wang

Song²,

Sun³

et al. 2016

24th High Performance Computing Symposium

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Server consolidation based on virtualization technology simplifies system administration and improves energy efficiency by improving resource utilizations and reducing the physical machine (PM) number in contemporary service-oriented data centers. The elasticity of Internet applications changes the consolidation technologies from addressing virtual machines (VMs) to PMs mapping schemes which must know the VMs statuses, i.e. the number of VMs and the profiling data of each VM, into providing the application-to-VM-to-PM mapping. In this paper, we study on the consolidation of multiple Internet applications, minimizing the number of PMs with required performance. We first model the consolidation providing the application-to-VM-to-PM mapping to minimize the number of PMs as an integer linear programming problem, and then present a heuristic algorithm to solve the problem in polynomial time. Extensive experimental results show that our heuristic algorithm consumes less than 4.3% more resources than the optimal amounts with few overheads. Existing consolidation technologies using the input of the VM statuses output by our heuristic algorithm consume 1.06% more PMs.

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Managing Performance Overhead of Virtual Machines in Cloud Computing: A Survey, State of the Art, and Future Directions

Cited by 244 publications

References 52 publications

Reliability and high availability in cloud computing environments: a reference roadmap

Reliability and high availability in cloud computing environments: a reference roadmap

The influence of datacenter usage on symmetry in datacenter network design

Server Consolidation for Internet Applications in Virtualized Data Centers

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