Vivek Shrivastava, Petros Zerfos, Kang-won Lee, Hani Jamjoom, Yew-Huey Liu and Suman Banerjee
IEEE INFOCOM Mini-conference
Shanghai, China, April 2011
Abstract. While virtual machine (VM) migration is allowing data
centers to rebalance workloads across physical
machines, the promise of a maximally utilized
infrastructure is yet to be realized. Part of the
challenge is due to the inherent dependencies
between VMs comprising a multi-tier application,
which introduce complex load interactions between
the underlying physical servers. For example, simply
moving an overloaded VM to a (random) underloaded
physical machine can inadvertently overload the
network. We introduce AppAware—a novel,
computationally efficient scheme for incorporating
(1) inter-VM dependencies and (2) the underlying
network topology into VM migration decisions. Using
simulations, we show that our proposed method
decreases network traffic by up to 81% compared to a
well known alternative VM migration method that is
not application-aware.
Bibtex.
@inproceedings{jamjoom-INFOCOM-11,
author = {Vivek and Shrivastava and Petros and Zerfos and Kang-won and Lee and Hani and Jamjoom and Yew-Huey and Liu and Suman and Banerjee},
title = {{Application-aware Virtual Machine Migration in Data Centers}},
booktitle = {IEEE INFOCOM Mini-conference},
address = {Shanghai, China},
month = {April},
year = {2011}
}