Sponge: an oversubscription strategy supporting performance interference management in cloud

Resource oversubscription optimizes the utilization of the computing resources. Many well-known virtual machine monitors (VMMs), such as Xen and KVM, adopt this approach to help maximize the yield of the cloud datacenters. That is, with proper resource oversubscription strategies, more virtual machines (VMs) can be supported by limited resources. However, performance interference among VMs hosting in the same physical machines (PMs) exists in cloud environment, and probably aggravated by resource oversubscription strategies, which aims to put more VMs into the same PM. In this paper, we present a resource oversubscription strategy called Sponge targeting cloud platforms. Sponge mitigates the issue of performance interference among the oversubscribed co-hosting VMs. Sponge also provides a VM association strategy for each PM to handle with its besteffort We performed our evaluation on a virtual datacenter simulated by Xen. Our evaluation results show that Sponge improves the resources utilization and manages to make each VM meet its performance requirement even hosting with other VMs in the same PM.