LOOPS: A Holistic Control Approach for Resource Management in Cloud Computing
2021 (English)In: ICPE 2021 - Proceedings of the ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2021, p. 117-124Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
In cloud computing model, resource sharing introduces major benefits for improving resource utilization and total cost of ownership, but it can create technical challenges on the running performance. In practice, orchestrators are required to allocate sufficient physical resources to each Virtual Machine (VM) to meet a set of predefined performance goals. To ensure a specific service level objective, the orchestrator needs to be equipped with a dynamic tool for assigning computing resources to each VM, based on the run-Time state of the target environment. To this end, we present LOOPS, a multi-loop control approach, to allocate resources to VMs based on the service level agreement (SLA) requirements and the run-Time conditions. LOOPS is mainly composed of one essential unit to monitor VMs, and three control levels to allocate resources to VMs based on requests from the essential node. A tailor-made controller is proposed with each level to regulate contention among collocated VMs, to reallocate resources if required, and to migrate VMs from one host to another. The three levels work together to meet the required SLA. The experimental results have shown that the proposed approach can meet applications' performance goals by assigning the resources required by cloud-based applications.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2021. p. 117-124
Keywords [en]
auto-scaling, cloud computing, horizontal scaling, resource management, vertical scaling, VM migration, Virtual machine, Cloud-based applications, Reallocate resources, Resource utilizations, Service Level Agreements, Service level objective, Technical challenges, Total cost of ownership
National Category
Computer Sciences
Research subject
Computer Science
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-84838DOI: 10.1145/3427921.3450254ISI: 000744413800012Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85104503965ISBN: 9781450381949 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kau-84838DiVA, id: diva2:1571171
Conference
2021 ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering, ICPE 2021, 19 April 2021 through 21 April 2021
2021-06-222021-06-222022-03-30Bibliographically approved