Using Empirical Estimates of Effective Bandwidth in Network-Aware Placement of Virtual Machines in Datacenters

Wang, Runxin and Wickboldt, Juliano Araujo and Esteves, Rafael Pereira and Shi, Lei and Jennings, Brendan and Granville, Lisandro Zambenedetti (2016) Using Empirical Estimates of Effective Bandwidth in Network-Aware Placement of Virtual Machines in Datacenters. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 13 (2). pp. 267-280. ISSN 1932-4537

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Abstract

Datacenter operators are increasingly deploying virtualization platforms to improve resource usage efficiency and to simplify the management of tenant applications. Although there are significant efficiency gains to be made, predicting performance becomes a major challenge, especially given the difficulty of allocating datacenter network bandwidth to multitier applications, which generate highly variable traffic flows between their constituent software components. Static bandwidth allocation based on peak traffic rates ensures SLA compliance at the cost of significant overprovisioning, while allocation based on mean traffic rates ensures efficient usage of bandwidth at the cost of QoS violations. We describe MAPLE, a network-aware VM ensemble placement system that uses empirical estimations of the effective bandwidth required between servers to ensure that QoS violations are within targets specified in the SLAs for tenant applications. Moreover, we describe an extended version of MAPLE, termed MAPLEx, which allows the specification of anticolocation constraints relating to the placement of application VMs. Experimental results, obtained using an emulated datacenter, show that, in contrast to the Oktopus network-aware VM placement system, MAPLE can allocate computing and network resources in a manner that balances efficiency of resource utilization with performance predictability.

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Additional Information:	Funding Information: This work was supported in part by the Science Foundation Ireland via the CONNECT research centre (Grant 13/RC/2077) and the Research Brazil Ireland project (Grant 13/ISCA/2843); in part by the Irish Higher Education Authority under the Programme for Research in Third-Level Institutions (PRTLI) Cycle 5 (co-funded under the European Regional Development Fund) via the Telecommunications Graduate Initiative project; in part by the Irish Research Council via Grant ELEVATEPD/2013/26; and in part by the European Commission via the SOLAS IAPP FP7 project (Grant 612480). The associate editor coordinating the review of this paper and approving it for publication was P. Owezarski. Publisher Copyright: © 2004-2012 IEEE.
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Date Deposited:	19 Oct 2022 23:09
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URI:	http://repository-testing.wit.ie/id/eprint/4347

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