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Computer Networks 53 (2009) 2905–2922 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Computer Networks journal homepage: /locate/comnet Resource pool management: Reactive versus proactive or let’s be friends Daniel Gmach a,*, Jerry Rolia a, Ludmila Cherkasova a, Alfons Kemper b a Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA, United States b Technische Universität München, 85748 Garching, München, Germany a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: The consolidation of multiple workloads and servers enables the efficient use of server and Available online 20 August 2009 power resources in shared resource pools. We employ a trace-based workload placement controller that uses historical information to periodically and proactively reassign work- Keywords: loads to servers subject to their quality of service objectives. A reactive migration controller Virtualized data centres is introduced that detects server overload and underload conditions. It initiates the migra- Resource pool management tion of workloads when the demand for resources exceeds supply. Furthermore, it dynam- Enterprise workload analysis ically adds and removes servers to maintain a balance of supply and demand for capacity Simulation while minimizing power usage. A host load simulation environment is used to evaluate several different management policies for the control