scholarly journals Virtual Disks Performance Analysis Using Flexible I/O and Powerstat

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 267-296
Author(s):  
Pritam Patange
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Virtual Machine ◽  
Virtual Machines ◽  
Disk File ◽  
Virtual Machine Monitor ◽  
Image File ◽  
File Formats ◽  
Physical Infrastructure ◽  
Disk Image ◽  
The Impact

Abstract: Cloud computing has experienced significant growth in the recent years owing to the various advantages it provides such as 24/7 availability, quick provisioning of resources, easy scalability to name a few. Virtualization is the backbone of cloud computing. Virtual Machines (VMs) are created and executed by a software called Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) or the hypervisor. It separates compute environments from the actual physical infrastructure. A disk image file representing a single virtual machine is created on the hypervisor’s file system. In this paper, we analysed the runtime performance of multiple different disk image file formats. The analysis comprises of four different parameters of performance namely- bandwidth, latency, input-output operations performed per second (IOPS) and power consumption. The impact of the hypervisor’s block and file sizes is also analysed for the different file formats. The paper aims to act as a reference for the reader in choosing the most appropriate disk file image format for their use case based on the performance comparisons made between different disk image file formats on two different hypervisors – KVM and VirtualBox. Keywords: Virtualization, Virtual disk formats, Cloud computing, fio, KVM, virt-manager, powerstat, VirtualBox.

GPU Virtualization using PCI Direct Pass-Through

2013 ◽  
Vol 311 ◽  
pp. 15-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hee Seung Jo ◽  
Myung Ho Lee ◽  
Dong Hoon Choi
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Virtual Machine ◽  
Virtual Machines ◽  
Gpu Programming ◽  
Processing Unit ◽  
Computing Environment ◽  
Virtual Machine Monitor ◽  
Cloud Computing Environment ◽  
Pass Through ◽  
Gpu Virtualization

Machine virtualization and cloud computing environment have highlighted for last several years. This trend is based on the endeavor to enhance the utilization and reduce the ownership cost of machines. On the other hand, in aspect of high performance computing, graphics processing unit (GPU) has proved its capability for general purpose computing in many research areas. Evolving from traditional APIs such as the OpenGL and the Direct3D to program GPU as a graphics device, the CUDA of NIVDIA and the OpenCL provide more general programming environment for users. By supporting memory access model, interfaces to access GPUs directly and programming toolkits, users can perform parallel computation using the hundreds of GPU cores. In this paper, we propose a GPU virtualization mechanism to exploit GPU on virtualized cloud computing environment. Differently from the previous work which mostly reimplemented GPU programming APIs and virtual device drivers, our proposed mechanism uses the direct pass-through of PCI-E channel having GPU. The main limitation of previous approaches is virtualization overhead. Since they were focused on the sharing of GPU among virtual machines, they reimplemented GPU programming APIs at virtual machine monitor (VMM) level, and it incurred significant performance overhead. Moreover, if APIs are changed, they need to reengineer the most of APIs. In our approach, bypassing virtual machine monitor layer with negligible overhead, the mechanism can achieve similar computation performance to bare-metal system and is transparent to the GPU programming APIs.

Distance Aware VM allocation process to minimize energy consumption in cloud computing

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gurpreet Singh ◽  
Manish Mahajan ◽  
Rajni Mohana
Keyword(s):  
Resource Allocation ◽  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Virtual Machine ◽  
Virtual Machines ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Service Level Agreement ◽  
Service Level ◽  
Physical Machine ◽  
Allocation Process

BACKGROUND: Cloud computing is considered as an on-demand service resource with the applications towards data center on pay per user basis. For allocating the resources appropriately for the satisfaction of user needs, an effective and reliable resource allocation method is required. Because of the enhanced user demand, the allocation of resources has now considered as a complex and challenging task when a physical machine is overloaded, Virtual Machines share its load by utilizing the physical machine resources. Previous studies lack in energy consumption and time management while keeping the Virtual Machine at the different server in turned on state. AIM AND OBJECTIVE: The main aim of this research work is to propose an effective resource allocation scheme for allocating the Virtual Machine from an ad hoc sub server with Virtual Machines. EXECUTION MODEL: The execution of the research has been carried out into two sections, initially, the location of Virtual Machines and Physical Machine with the server has been taken place and subsequently, the cross-validation of allocation is addressed. For the sorting of Virtual Machines, Modified Best Fit Decreasing algorithm is used and Multi-Machine Job Scheduling is used while the placement process of jobs to an appropriate host. Artificial Neural Network as a classifier, has allocated jobs to the hosts. Measures, viz. Service Level Agreement violation and energy consumption are considered and fruitful results have been obtained with a 37.7 of reduction in energy consumption and 15% improvement in Service Level Agreement violation.

Virtual Machines Scheduling Algorithm Based on Multi-Objective Optimization in Cloud Computing

2014 ◽  
Vol 1046 ◽  
pp. 508-511
Author(s):  
Jian Rong Zhu ◽  
Yi Zhuang ◽  
Jing Li ◽  
Wei Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Virtual Machine ◽  
Virtual Machines ◽  
Scheduling Algorithm ◽  
Machine Scheduling ◽  
Multi Objective Optimization ◽  
Multi Objective ◽  
Virtual Machine Scheduling ◽  
Set Up

How to reduce energy consumption while improving utility of datacenter is one of the key technologies in the cloud computing environment. In this paper, we use energy consumption and utility of data center as objective functions to set up a virtual machine scheduling model based on multi-objective optimization VMSA-MOP, and design a virtual machine scheduling algorithm based on NSGA-2 to solve the model. Experimental results show that compared with other virtual machine scheduling algorithms, our algorithm can obtain relatively optimal scheduling results.

scholarly journals Virtual Machine Selection Algorithm Based on User Requirements in Mobile Cloud Computing Environment

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 7335-7349
Author(s):  
Rashid Alakbarov
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Virtual Machine ◽  
Mobile Cloud Computing ◽  
Virtual Machines ◽  
Mobile User ◽  
Base Stations ◽  
Mobile Cloud ◽  
Software Applications ◽  
Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks ◽  
Cloud Technologies

The article analyzes the advantages of mobile cloud technologies and problems emerging during the use of those. The network infrastructure created based on cloudlets at the second level of mobile cloud computing with hierarchical structure is analyzed. At the same time, the article explores the issues of satisfaction of demand of mobile equipment for computing and memory resources by using these technologies. The article presents one solution for the allocation of mobile user requests in virtual machines created in cloudlets located near base stations of wireless metropolitan area networks (WMAN) in a balanced way by considering the technical capacity of those. Alongside, the article considers the solution of user problem during designated time and the issue of determining virtual machines satisfying other requirements. For this purpose, different characteristics of the stated problem, virtual machines, as well as communication channels between a user and virtual machines are considered. By using possible values determining the importance of cloudlets, conditions for loading software applications of a user to a virtual machine are explored and an appropriate method is proposed.

scholarly journals An analysis of software aging in cloud environment

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 5985
Author(s):  
Shruthi P. ◽  
Nagaraj G. Cholli
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Virtual Machines ◽  
Cloud Service ◽  
Software Systems ◽  
System Failure ◽  
Dynamic Nature ◽  
Software Aging ◽  
Software Rejuvenation ◽  
The Impact

Cloud Computing is the environment in which several virtual machines (VM) run concurrently on physical machines. The cloud computing infrastructure hosts multiple cloud service segments that communicate with each other using the interfaces. This creates distributed computing environment. During operation, the software systems accumulate errors or garbage that leads to system failure and other hazardous consequences. This status is called software aging. Software aging happens because of memory fragmentation, resource consumption in large scale and accumulation of numerical error. Software aging degrads the performance that may result in system failure. This happens because of premature resource exhaustion. This issue cannot be determined during software testing phase because of the dynamic nature of operation. The errors that cause software aging are of special types. These errors do not disturb the software functionality but target the response time and its environment. This issue is to be resolved only during run time as it occurs because of the dynamic nature of the problem. To alleviate the impact of software aging, software rejuvenation technique is being used. Rejuvenation process reboots the system or re-initiates the softwares. This avoids faults or failure. Software rejuvenation removes accumulated error conditions, frees up deadlocks and defragments operating system resources like memory. Hence, it avoids future failures of system that may happen due to software aging. As service availability is crucial, software rejuvenation is to be carried out at defined schedules without disrupting the service. The presence of Software rejuvenation techniques can make software systems more trustworthy. Software designers are using this concept to improve the quality and reliability of the software. Software aging and rejuvenation has generated a lot of research interest in recent years. This work reviews some of the research works related to detection of software aging and identifies research gaps.

Efficient task scheduling on virtual machine in cloud computing environment

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahfooz Alam ◽  
Mahak ◽  
Raza Abbas Haidri ◽  
Dileep Kumar Yadav
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Load Balancing ◽  
Response Time ◽  
Virtual Machine ◽  
Task Allocation ◽  
Completion Time ◽  
Virtual Machines ◽  
Scheduling Algorithm ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Minimum Completion Time

Purpose Cloud users can access services at anytime from anywhere in the world. On average, Google now processes more than 40,000 searches every second, which is approximately 3.5 billion searches per day. The diverse and vast amounts of data are generated with the development of next-generation information technologies such as cryptocurrency, internet of things and big data. To execute such applications, it is needed to design an efficient scheduling algorithm that considers the quality of service parameters like utilization, makespan and response time. Therefore, this paper aims to propose a novel Efficient Static Task Allocation (ESTA) algorithm, which optimizes average utilization. Design/methodology/approach Cloud computing provides resources such as virtual machine, network, storage, etc. over the internet. Cloud computing follows the pay-per-use billing model. To achieve efficient task allocation, scheduling algorithm problems should be interacted and tackled through efficient task distribution on the resources. The methodology of ESTA algorithm is based on minimum completion time approach. ESTA intelligently maps the batch of independent tasks (cloudlets) on heterogeneous virtual machines and optimizes their utilization in infrastructure as a service cloud computing. Findings To evaluate the performance of ESTA, the simulation study is compared with Min-Min, load balancing strategy with migration cost, Longest job in the fastest resource-shortest job in the fastest resource, sufferage, minimum completion time (MCT), minimum execution time and opportunistic load balancing on account of makespan, utilization and response time. Originality/value The simulation result reveals that the ESTA algorithm consistently superior performs under varying of batch independent of cloudlets and the number of virtual machines’ test conditions.

scholarly journals A dynamic programming approach to manage virtual machines allocation in cloud computing

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4.6) ◽  
pp. 128
Author(s):  
Abdellah Ouammou ◽  
Mohamed Hanini ◽  
Abdelghani Ben Tahar ◽  
Said El Kafhali
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Dynamic Programming ◽  
Resource Management ◽  
Virtual Machine ◽  
Virtual Machines ◽  
Stochastic Modelling ◽  
Programming Approach ◽  
Conflicting Objectives ◽  
Machine Allocation ◽  
Virtual Machine Allocation

As a result of the dynamic nature of Virtual Machine allocation in cloud computing, it is not easy to manage system resources or choose the best configuration based solely on human experience.  In this work, we used stochastic modelling instead of comprehensive experiments to evaluate the best resource management of the system. In such complex systems, choosing the best decision is a challenge, for this reason we have designed a heuristic algorithm, specifically, dynamic programming as a resource management and programming tool that finds a way that attempts to satisfy the conflicting objectives of high performance and low power consumption. As a scenario for using this algorithm, we addressed the problem of virtual machine allocation, a subset of physical machines is designated as "reserve", and the reserves are actives when the number of jobs in the system is sufficiently high. The question is how to decide when to activate the reserves. The simulation results demonstrated the benefit of using our framework to identify the policy for consolidation or for a low energy consumption and in order to have a good quality of service in the system

scholarly journals A Load Balancing Scheme Using Federate Migration Based on Virtual Machines for Cloud Simulations

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao Song ◽  
Yaofei Ma ◽  
Da Teng
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Virtual Machine ◽  
Distributed System ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Virtual Machines ◽  
On Demand ◽  
New Type ◽  
Key Techniques ◽  
Large Scale Simulations ◽  
Simulation Systems

A maturing and promising technology, Cloud computing can benefit large-scale simulations by providing on-demand, anywhere simulation services to users. In order to enable multitask and multiuser simulation systems with Cloud computing, Cloud simulation platform (CSP) was proposed and developed. To use key techniques of Cloud computing such as virtualization to promote the running efficiency of large-scale military HLA systems, this paper proposes a new type of federate container, virtual machine (VM), and its dynamic migration algorithm considering both computation and communication cost. Experiments show that the migration scheme effectively improves the running efficiency of HLA system when the distributed system is not saturated.

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