Title
Autonomic resource management in virtualized data centers using fuzzy logic-based approaches
Abstract
Data centers, as resource providers, are expected to deliver on performance guarantees while optimizing resource utilization to reduce cost. Virtualization techniques provide the opportunity of consolidating multiple separately managed containers of virtual resources on underutilized physical servers. A key challenge that comes with virtualization is the simultaneous on-demand provisioning of shared physical resources to virtual containers and the management of their capacities to meet service-quality targets at the least cost. This paper proposes a two-level resource management system to dynamically allocate resources to individual virtual containers. It uses local controllers at the virtual-container level and a global controller at the resource-pool level. An important advantage of this two-level control architecture is that it allows independent controller designs for separately optimizing the performance of applications and the use of resources. Autonomic resource allocation is realized through the interaction of the local and global controllers. A novelty of the local controller designs is their use of fuzzy logic-based approaches to efficiently and robustly deal with the complexity and uncertainties of dynamically changing workloads and resource usage. The global controller determines the resource allocation based on a proposed profit model, with the goal of maximizing the total profit of the data center. Experimental results obtained through a prototype implementation demonstrate that, for the scenarios under consideration, the proposed resource management system can significantly reduce resource consumption while still achieving application performance targets.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1007/s10586-008-0060-0
Cluster Computing
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Autonomic computing,Fuzzy modeling,Resource management,Virtualization,Two-level control,Data centers
Journal
11
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3
1386-7857
63
PageRank 
References 
Authors
2.95
18
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jing Xu129316.21
Ming Zhao227417.91
José Fortes341826.68
Robert Carpenter4674.02
Mazin Yousif587459.00