Paper Info
Title
Server consolidation with migration control for virtualized data centers
Abstract
Virtualization has become a key technology for simplifying service management and reducing energy costs in data centers. One of the challenges faced by data centers is to decide when, how, and which virtual machines (VMs) have to be consolidated into a single physical server. Server consolidation involves VM migration, which has a direct impact on service response time. Most of the existing solutions for server consolidation rely on eager migrations, which try to minimize the number of physical servers running VMs. These solutions generate unnecessary migrations due to unpredictable workloads that require VM resizing. This paper proposes an LP formulation and heuristics to control VM migration, which prioritize virtual machines with steady capacity. We performed experiments using TU-Berlin and Google data center workloads to compare our migration control strategy against existing eager-migration-based solutions. We observed that avoiding migration of VMs with steady capacity reduces the number of migrations with minimal penalty in the number of physical servers.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1016/j.future.2011.04.016
Future Generation Comp. Syst.
Keywords
Field
DocType
server consolidation,virtualization,virtual machine,unnecessary migration,steady capacity,data centers,migration control,google data center workloads,virtualized data center,data center,eager migration,vm migration,physical server,migration control strategy,service management
Virtualization,Service management,Virtual machine,Computer science,Server,Response time,Real-time computing,Heuristics,Data center,Distributed computing,Data migration
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
27
8
Future Generation Computer Systems
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
121
3.68
11
Authors
4
Search Limit
100121
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tiago C. Ferreto130018.23
Marco A. S. Netto228413.16
Rodrigo N. Calheiros33441141.17
César A. F. De Rose4198287.05