Improving consolidation of virtual machine based on virtual switching overhead estimation

doi:10.1016/j.jnca.2015.07.008

	Improving consolidation of virtual machine based on virtual switching overhead estimation
	Li, Mingfu; Bi, Jingping; Li, Zhongcheng
	2016
发表期刊	JOURNAL OF NETWORK AND COMPUTER APPLICATIONS
ISSN	1084-8045
卷号	59 页码:158-167
摘要	In virtualized data centers, live virtual machine (VM) migration can increase energy efficiency by consolidating VMs on fewer servers. This problem is usually considered a Bin Packing Problem with server capacity constraints, such as CPU, memory and network bandwidth. In order to minimize the communication traffic within the data center network, existing research works used correlation-based strategy to consolidate VMs onto servers, which means that VMs with inter-traffic are consolidated as closely as possible, e.g. within a server or a rack. However, this strategy increases the traffic load of virtual switches on servers, and it causes a certain number of CPU cycles of servers to move traffic through virtual switches. A lack of consideration for the virtual switching overhead may increase the risk that VMs are not allocated enough resources, and consequently reduce VMs' performance. In this work, we conduct experiments to estimate the virtual switching overhead on server CPU resource, and based on the experiment results, we propose a virtual-switching-aware VM consolidation algorithm to address this problem. Experiments on representative data center workloads show that the overhead can occupy 10-30% of server's CPU resources. Additionally, our algorithm shows a much lower server capacity violation probability as compared with the baseline algorithm. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
关键词	Virtual machine consolidation Virtual switching overhead Server capacity violation probability
DOI	10.1016/j.jnca.2015.07.008
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
资助项目	National Natural Science Foundation of China[61070210] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[61303243]
WOS研究方向	Computer Science
WOS类目	Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture ; Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications ; Computer Science, Software Engineering
WOS记录号	WOS:000367491600016
出版者	ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
引用统计	被引频次：13[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.204/handle/2XEOYT63/8939
专题	中国科学院计算技术研究所期刊论文_英文
通讯作者	Li, Mingfu
作者单位	Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Comp Technol, Beijing, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Li, Mingfu,Bi, Jingping,Li, Zhongcheng. Improving consolidation of virtual machine based on virtual switching overhead estimation[J]. JOURNAL OF NETWORK AND COMPUTER APPLICATIONS,2016,59:158-167.
APA	Li, Mingfu,Bi, Jingping,&Li, Zhongcheng.(2016).Improving consolidation of virtual machine based on virtual switching overhead estimation.JOURNAL OF NETWORK AND COMPUTER APPLICATIONS,59,158-167.
MLA	Li, Mingfu,et al."Improving consolidation of virtual machine based on virtual switching overhead estimation".JOURNAL OF NETWORK AND COMPUTER APPLICATIONS 59(2016):158-167.