A distributed control framework for performance management of virtualized computing environments: some preliminary results

ABSTRACT

There is growing incentive to reduce the power consumed by data centers. Virtualization is a promising approach to consolidating multiple online services onto a smaller number of computing resources. By dynamically provisioning virtual machines, consolidating the workload, and turning servers on and off as needed, data center operators can maintain desired service-level agreements with end users while achieving higher server utilization and energy efficiency. This paper proposes a distributed cooperative control framework for the power and performance management of virtualized computing environments, and presents some preliminary results aimed at establishing the feasibility of this approach.

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Index Terms

• Computer systems organization

  • Dependable and fault-tolerant systems and networks

• Computing methodologies

  • Modeling and simulation

    • Model development and analysis

      • Modeling methodologies

• General and reference

  • Cross-computing tools and techniques

    • Design