@inproceedings{861e3c0137254934ac8ae43e0f8ef1b8,
title = "Revenue driven resource allocation for virtualized data centers",
abstract = "The increasing VM density in cloud hosting services makes careful management of physical resources such as CPU, memory, and I/O bandwidth within individual virtualized servers a priority. To maximize cost-efficiency, resource management needs to be coupled with the revenue generating mechanisms of cloud hosting: the service level agreements (SLAs) of hosted client applications. In this paper, we develop a server resource management framework that reduces data center resource management complexity substantially. Our solution implements revenue-driven dynamic resource allocation which continuously steers the resource distribution across hosted VMs within a server such as to maximize the SLA-generated revenue from the server. Our experimental evaluation for a VMware ESX hyper visor highlights the importance of both resource isolation and resource sharing across VMs. The empirical data shows a 7%-54% increase in total revenue generated for a mix of 10-25 VMs hosting either similar or diverse workloads when compared to using the currently available resource distribution mechanisms in ESX.",
keywords = "Cloud computing, Data centers, Resource allocation, SLA, Virtualization",
author = "Sajib Kundu and Raju Rangaswami and Ming Zhao and Ajay Gulati and Kaushik Dutta",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2015 IEEE.; 12th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing, ICAC 2015 ; Conference date: 07-07-2015 Through 10-07-2015",
year = "2015",
month = sep,
day = "14",
doi = "10.1109/ICAC.2015.40",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing, ICAC 2015",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "197--206",
editor = "Philippe Lalanda and Samuel Kounev and Ada Diaconescu and Lucy Cherkasova",
booktitle = "Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing, ICAC 2015",
}