Paper Info
Title
An Analysis of Performance Interference Effects in Virtual Environments
Abstract
Virtualization is an essential technology in modern datacenters. Despite advantages such as security isolation, fault isolation, and environment isolation, current virtualization techniques do not provide effective performance isolation between virtual machines (VMs). Specifically, hidden contention for physical resources impacts performance differently in different workload configurations, causing significant variance in observed system throughput. To this end, characterizing workloads that generate performance interference is important in order to maximize overall utility. In this paper, we study the effects of performance interference by looking at system-level workload characteristics. In a physical host, we allocate two VMs, each of which runs a sample application chosen from a wide range of benchmark and real-world workloads. For each combination, we collect performance metrics and runtime characteristics using an instrumented Ken hypervisor. Through subsequent analysis of collected data, we identify clusters of applications that generate certain types of performance interference. Furthermore, we develop mathematical models to predict the performance of a new application from its workload characteristics. Our evaluation shows our techniques were able to predict performance with average error of approximately 5%
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1109/ISPASS.2007.363750
ISPASS
Keywords
Field
DocType
ken hypervisor,virtualization,virtual environment,runtime characteristics,system throughput,performance isolation,data analysis,virtual machines,system-level workload characteristics,performance evaluation,performance metrics,performance interference,measurement,interference,throughput,data security
Virtualization,Data security,Virtual machine,Workload,Computer science,Temporal isolation among virtual machines,Fault detection and isolation,Parallel computing,Hypervisor,Real-time computing,Throughput
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
1-4244-1082-7
174
8.07
References 
Authors
11
6
Search Limit
100174
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Younggyun Koh134416.06
Rob C. Knauerhase220113.30
Paul Brett348723.97
Mic Bowman41285123.13
Zhihua Wen528615.61
Calton Pu65377877.83