Title
Virtual platform architectures for resource metering in datacenters
Abstract
With cloud and utility computing models gaining significant momentum, data centers are increasingly employing virtualization and consolidation as a means to support a large number of disparate applications running simultaneously on a CMP server. In such environments, it is important to meter the usage of resources by each datacenter application so that customers can be charged accordingly. In this paper, we describe a simple metering and chargeback model (pay-as-you-go) and describe a solution based on virtual platform architectures (VPA) to accurately meter visible as well as transparent resources.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1145/1639562.1639600
SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review
Keywords
Field
DocType
utility computing model,simple metering,cmp server,cmp,datacenter application,cache/memory,chargeback model,significant momentum,transparent resource,service level agreements,data center,resource sharing principles,performance,large number,virtual platform architecture,quality of service,disparate application,resource sharing,utility computing,cache memory
Virtualization,Virtual platform,Computer science,CPU cache,Quality of service,Computer network,Real-time computing,Utility computing,Metering mode,Chargeback,Distributed computing,Cloud computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
37
2
12
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.61
2
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ravishankar K. Iyer1111975.72
Ramesh Illikkal248133.98
Li Zhao360434.84
Don Newell451232.67
Jaideep Moses514011.68