Resource balancing in virtualized environments
Abstract
This paper describes the improvements on a subsystem to reallocate resources on the Xen Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM). This subsystem, called SRX, balances the resources of a virtualized enviroment in order to meet Service Level Agreements. The main problems on SRX were related to performance degradation due to creation and destruction of processes every time resources had to be reallocated to a VM. Our strategy was to include the SRX features to the Xen Master (XM) tool. In order to show the improvements of our new tool a set of tests is presented at the end of the paper.
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Published
2010-07-20
How to Cite
COSTA, Leandro T.; TEIXEIRA, Filipi D.; RODRIGUES, Elder M.; ZORZO, Avelino F..
Resource balancing in virtualized environments. In: WORKSHOP ON OPERATING SYSTEMS (WSO), 7. , 2010, Belo Horizonte/MG.
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Porto Alegre: Sociedade Brasileira de Computação,
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