Research Article
Dynamic Load Management of Virtual Machines in Cloud Architectures
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-12636-9_14, author={Mauro Andreolini and Sara Casolari and Michele Colajanni and Michele Messori}, title={Dynamic Load Management of Virtual Machines in Cloud Architectures}, proceedings={Cloud Computing. First International Conference, CloudComp 2009 Munich, Germany, October 19--21, 2009 Revised Selected Papers}, proceedings_a={CLOUDCOMP}, year={2012}, month={5}, keywords={}, doi={10.1007/978-3-642-12636-9_14} }- Mauro Andreolini
Sara Casolari
Michele Colajanni
Michele Messori
Year: 2012
Dynamic Load Management of Virtual Machines in Cloud Architectures
CLOUDCOMP
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-12636-9_14
Abstract
Cloud infrastructures must accommodate changing demands for different types of processing with heterogeneous workloads and time constraints. In a similar context, dynamic management of virtualized application environments is becoming very important to exploit computing resources, especially with recent virtualization capabilities that allow live sessions to be moved transparently between servers. This paper proposes novel management algorithms to decide about reallocations of virtual machines in a cloud context characterized by large numbers of hosts. The novel algorithms identify just the real critical instances and take decisions without recurring to typical thresholds. Moreover, they consider load trend behavior of the resources instead of instantaneous or average measures. Experimental results show that proposed algorithms are truly selective and robust even in variable contexts, thus reducing system instability and limit migrations when really necessary.