Title
Optimizing a virtualized data center
Abstract
Many data centers extensively use virtual machines (VMs), which provide the flexibility to move workload among physical servers. VMs can be placed to maximize application performance, power efficiency, or even fault tolerance. However, VMs are typically repositioned without considering network topology, congestion, or traffic routes. In this demo, we show a system, Virtue, which enables the comparison of different algorithms for VM placement and network routing at the scale of an entire data center. Our goal is to understand how placement and routing affect overall application performance by varying the types and mix of workloads, network topologies, and compute resources; these parameters will be available for demo attendees to explore.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1145/2018436.2018530
SIGCOMM
Keywords
Field
DocType
different algorithm,entire data center,overall application performance,virtualized data center,data center,network topology,application performance,network routing,demo attendees,vm placement,fault tolerance,power efficiency,fault tolerant,virtual machine,openflow,virtualization
Virtualization,Virtual machine,Computer science,Workload,Server,Computer network,Network topology,Fault tolerance,OpenFlow,Data center,Distributed computing
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.74
7
Authors
10
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
David Erickson149431.70
Brandon Heller22026168.08
Shuang Yang3339.23
Jonathan Chu4272.14
Jonathan Ellithorpe5171.47
Scott Whyte619211.78
Stephen Stuart782034.67
Nick McKeown8132471201.05
Guru M. Parulkar95350534.45
Mendel Rosenblum104129572.54