Measuring performance degradation of virtual machines based on the Bayesian network with hidden variables

Hao, Jia; Zhang, Binbin; Yue, Kun; Wu, Hao; Zhang, Jixian

doi:10.1002/dac.3732

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“…And if multiple VMs are placed onto one PM, the customer request will be vulnerable to physical resources failures [17]. In addition, multiple VMs sharing the same PM are vulnerable to resource competition, which may cause performance interference among VMs and thus lead to VM performance degradation [18]. Each selected PM should have sufficient resources for the corresponding VM, i.e.,…”

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Location-Constrained Virtual Machine Placement (LCVP) Algorithm

Liu

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Scientific Programming

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Virtual machine (VM) placement is the current day research topic in cloud computing area. In order to solve the problem of imposing location constraints on VMs to meet their requirements in the process of VM placement, the location-constrained VM placement (LCVP) algorithm is proposed in this paper. In LCVP, each VM can only be placed onto one of the specified candidate physical machines (PMs) with enough computing resources and there must be sufficient bandwidth between the selected PMs to meet the communication requirement of the corresponding VMs. Simulation results show that LCVP is feasible and outperforms other benchmark algorithms in terms of computation time and blocking probability.

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Section: Feasible Solutionmentioning

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Location-Constrained Virtual Machine Placement (LCVP) Algorithm

Liu

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Scientific Programming

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“…The simulated environment does not model execution time, but it does model miss rates on RAM, which on a real system translates to swap operations. In current systems, as the swap operations increase, it implies a performance degradation on the use of memory resources [42], which have an adverse impact on the execution time on the applications running. Since the agents are constrained to reduce the memory misses/swap operations, it would imply an improvement on the execution time of the applications [120].…”

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Virtualization techniques for memory resource exploitation

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Cloud infrastructures have become indispensable in our daily lives with the rise of cloud-based services offered by companies like Facebook, Google, Amazon and many others. These cloud infrastructures use a large numbers of servers provisioned with their own computing resources. Each of these servers use a piece of software, called the Hypervisor (``HV''), that allows them to create multiple virtual instances of the server's physical computing resources and abstract them into "Virtual Machines'' (VMs). A VM runs an Operating System, which in turn runs the applications. The VMs within the servers generate varying memory demand behavior. When the demand increases, costly operations such as (virtual) disk accesses and/or VM migrations can occur. As a result, it is necessary to optimize the utilization of the local memory resources within a single computing server. However, pressure on the memory resources can still increase, making it necessary to migrate the VM to a different server with larger memory or add more memory to the same server. At this point, it is important to consider that some of the servers in the cloud infrastructure might have memory resources that they are not using. Considering the possibility to make memory available to the server, new architectures have been introduced that provide hardware support to enable servers to share their memory capacity. This thesis presents multiple contributions to the memory management problem. First, it addresses the problem of optimizing memory resources in a virtualized server through different types of memory abstractions. Two full contributions are presented for managing memory within a single server called SmarTmem and CARLEMM. In this respect, a third contribution is also presented, called CAVMem, that works as the foundation for CARLEMM. Second, this thesis presents two contributions for memory capacity aggregation across multiple servers, offering two mechanisms called GV-Tmem and vMCA, this latter being based on GV-Tmem but with significant enhancements. These mechanisms distribute the server's total memory within a single-server and globally across computing servers using a user-space process with high-level memory management policies. Las infraestructuras para la nube se han vuelto indispensables en nuestras vidas diarias con la proliferación de los servicios ofrecidos por compañías como Facebook, Google, Amazon entre otras. Estas infraestructuras utilizan una gran cantidad de servidores proveídos con sus propios recursos computacionales. Cada unos de estos servidores utilizan un software, llamado el Hipervisor (“HV”), que les permite crear múltiples instancias virtuales de los recursos físicos de computación del servidor y abstraerlos en “Máquinas Virtuales” (VMs). Una VM ejecuta un Sistema Operativo (OS), el cual a su vez ejecuta aplicaciones. Las VMs dentro de los servidores generan un comportamiento variable de demanda de memoria. Cuando la demanda de memoria aumenta, operaciones costosas como accesos al disco (virtual) y/o migraciones de VMs pueden ocurrir. Como resultado, es necesario optimizar la utilización de los recursos de memoria locales dentro del servidor. Sin embargo, la demanda por memoria puede seguir aumentando, haciendo necesario que la VM migre a otro servidor o que se añada más memoria al servidor. En este punto, es importante considerar que algunos servidores podrían tener recursos de memoria que no están utilizando. Considerando la posibilidad de hacer más memoria disponible a los servidores que lo necesitan, nuevas arquitecturas de servidores han sido introducidos que brindan el soporte de hardware necesario para habilitar que los servidores puedan compartir su capacidad de memoria. Esta tesis presenta múltiples contribuciones para el problema de manejo de memoria. Primero, se enfoca en el problema de optimizar los recursos de memoria en un servidor virtualizado a través de distintos tipos de abstracciones de memoria. Dos contribuciones son presentadas para administrar memoria de manera automática dentro de un servidor virtualizado, llamadas SmarTmem y CARLEMM. En este contexto, una tercera contribución es presentada, llamada CAVMem, que proporciona los fundamentos para el desarrollo de CARLEMM. Segundo, la tesis presenta dos contribuciones enfocadas en la agregación de capacidad de memoria a través de múltiples servidores, ofreciendo dos mecanismos llamados GV-Tmem y vMCA, siendo este último basado en GV-Tmem pero con mejoras significativas. Estos mecanismos administran la memoria total de un servidor a nivel local y de manera global a lo largo de los servidores de la infraestructura de nube utilizando un proceso de usuario que implementa políticas de manejo de ...

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