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Elastic VM for Cloud Resources Provisioning Optimization

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Advances in Computing and Communications (ACC 2011)

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Rapid growth of E-Business and frequent changes in websites contents as well as customers’ interest make it difficult to predict workload surge. To maintain a good quality of service (QoS), system administrators must provision enough resources to cope with workload fluctuations considering that resources over-provisioning reduces business profits while under-provisioning degrades performance. In this paper, we present elastic system architecture for dynamic resources management and applications optimization in virtualized environment. In our architecture, we have implemented three controllers for CPU, Memory, and Application. These controllers run in parallel to guarantee efficient resources allocation and optimize application performance on co-hosted VMs dynamically. We evaluated our architecture with extensive experiments and several setups; the results show that considering online optimization of application, with dynamic CPU and Memory allocation, can reduce service level objectives (SLOs) violation and maintain application performance…

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  1. Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam University, Potsdam, Germany

    Wesam Dawoud, Ibrahim Takouna & Christoph Meinel

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  1. Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), Auburn, 98071-2259, Washington, USA

    Ajith Abraham

  2. Department of Communications, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Camino de Vera, 46022, Valencia, Spain

    Jaime Lloret Mauri

  3. Avaya Labs Research, Basking Ridge, NJ, USA

    John F. Buford

  4. University of Massachusetts, 100 Morrissey Blvd., 02125-3393, Boston, MA, USA

    Junichi Suzuki

  5. Rajagiri School of Engineering and Technology, Rajagiri Valley, Kakkanad, 682 039, Kochi, India

    Sabu M. Thampi

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Dawoud, W., Takouna, I., Meinel, C. (2011). Elastic VM for Cloud Resources Provisioning Optimization. In: Abraham, A., Lloret Mauri, J., Buford, J.F., Suzuki, J., Thampi, S.M. (eds) Advances in Computing and Communications. ACC 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 190. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22709-7_43

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