Evaluating dynamic performance of VMM in server consolidation

Author

Yuan, Pingpeng ; Huang, Yuhua ; Jin, Hai ; Cao, Wenzhi

Author_Institution

Service Comput. Technol. & Syst. Lab., Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Wuhan, China

fYear

2009

fDate

23-24 Aug. 2009

Firstpage

81

Lastpage

85

Abstract

With the IT development, computer is more powerful and can accommodate more virtual servers than ever. Due to users´ random requests, it is not economical to start all virtual servers beforehand. One reasonable approach is to start virtual servers dynamically. It will lead to varied performance in server consolidation. Thus, one of the key problems is how to evaluate dynamic performance of VMM in server consolidation. However, no evaluation approach for dynamic performance of VMM in server consolidation is available now. We present an approach to evaluate dynamic performance of VMM in server consolidation. The approach adopts popular application servers, such as Web and database server as workload. We firstly give the problem definition. Then we define performance metrics for evaluating dynamic performance of VMM in server consolidation. Finally, we use the approach to evaluate dynamic performance of VMM in server consolidation.

Keywords

file servers; software performance evaluation; system monitoring; virtual machines; VMM dynamic performance evaluation; application server; performance metrics; virtual machine monitor; virtual server consolidation; Bandwidth; Computers; Degradation; Grid computing; Power generation economics; Scheduling; Switches; Virtual machine monitors; Virtual machining; Voice mail;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Web Society, 2009. SWS '09. 1st IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Lanzhou

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4157-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4158-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SWS.2009.5271777

Filename

5271777