Power and performance management of virtualized computing environments via lookahead control：（虚拟计算环境的能力和绩效管理通过超前控制）.pdfVIP

Power and Performance Management of Virtualized Computing Environments Via Lookahead Control∗ † ‡ Dara Kusic, Jeffrey O. Kephart, James E. Hanson, Nagarajan Kandasamy, and Guofei Jiang § September 21, 2008 Abstract There is growing incentive to reduce the power consumed by large-scale data centers that host online services such as banking, retail commerce, and gaming. Virtualization is a promis- ing approach to consolidating multiple online services onto a smaller number of computing resources. A virtualized server environment allows computing resources to be shared among multiple performance-isolated platforms called virtual machines. By dynamically provision- ing virtual machines, consolidating the workload, and turning servers on and off as needed, data center operators can maintain the desired quality-of-service (QoS) while achieving higher server utilization and energy efficiency. We implement and validate a dynamic resource pro- visioning framework for virtualized server environments wherein the provisioning problem is posed as one of sequential optimization under uncertainty and solved using a lookahead control scheme. The proposed approach accounts for the switching costs incurred while provisioning virtual machines and explicitly encodes the corresponding risk in the optimization problem. Experiments using the Trade6 enterprise application show that a server cluster managed by the controller conserves, on average, 22% of the power required by a system without dynamic control while still maintaining QoS goals. Finally, we use trace-based simulations to analyz