A Nonparametric Multivariate Method for Performance Analysis of Virtual Machines in Cloud Computing Systems

Author(s):  
Chang Liu ◽  
Ming Yu ◽  
Yu Zhang
Author(s):  
Ruiying Li ◽  
Qiong Li ◽  
Ning Huang ◽  
Rui Kang

Virtualization is one of the main features of cloud computing systems, which enables building multiple virtual machines on a single server. However, this feature brings new challenge in reliability modeling, as the failure of the server will make all its co-located virtual machines inoperable, which is a typical common-cause failure. To satisfy the demand of the cloud computing system, the reliability of the system is defined as the probability that at least a given number of virtual machines are operable. State-space enumeration is one method to calculate such reliability; however, due to the large number of combinations, it is time-consuming and impractical. To solve this problem, we propose a simplified reliability analysis method based on fault tree and state-space models. Two illustrative examples are studied to show the process and the effectiveness of our method. State enumeration and Monte Carlo simulation are also used to prove the correctness of our method as back-to-back verifications. Compared to the reliability analysis without considering common-cause failures, our results are quite different, which illustrates the necessity of considering common-cause failures in the reliability of cloud computing systems.


2014 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 357-374 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaodong Liu ◽  
Weiqin Tong ◽  
Xiaoli Zhi ◽  
Fu ZhiRen ◽  
Liao WenZhao

Author(s):  
Leila Helali ◽  
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Mohamed Nazih Omri

Since its emergence, cloud computing has continued to evolve thanks to its ability to present computing as consumable services paid by use, and the possibilities of resource scaling that it offers according to client’s needs. Models and appropriate schemes for resource scaling through consolidation service have been considerably investigated,mainly, at the infrastructure level to optimize costs and energy consumption. Consolidation efforts at the SaaS level remain very restrained mostly when proprietary software are in hand. In order to fill this gap and provide software licenses elastically regarding the economic and energy-aware considerations in the context of distributed cloud computing systems, this work deals with dynamic software consolidation in commercial cloud data centers 𝑫𝑺𝟑𝑪. Our solution is based on heuristic algorithms and allows reallocating software licenses at runtime by determining the optimal amount of resources required for their execution and freed unused machines. Simulation results showed the efficiency of our solution in terms of energy by 68.85% savings and costs by 80.01% savings. It allowed to free up to 75% physical machines and 76.5% virtual machines and proved its scalability in terms of average execution time while varying the number of software and the number of licenses alternately.


2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 6207-6212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manpreet Kaur ◽  
Dr. Rajinder Singh

Cloud computing is Internet based development and use of computer technology. It is a style of computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources are provided as a service over the Internet. Users need not have knowledge of, expertise in, or control over the technology infrastructure "in the cloud" that supports them. Scheduling is one of the core steps to efficiently exploit the capabilities of heterogeneous computing systems. On cloud computing platform, load balancing of the entire system can be  dynamically handled  by  using  virtualization  technology through which it  becomes  possible  to  remap  virtual  machine  and physical resources  according  to  the  change  in  load. However, in order to improve performance, the virtual machines have to fully utilize its resources and services by adapting to computing environment dynamically.  The  load balancing  with  proper  allocation  of  resources  must  be guaranteed  in  order  to  improve  resource  utility.


2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (07) ◽  
pp. 924-929
Author(s):  
Dr. Kiran V ◽  
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Akshay Narayan Pai ◽  
Gautham S ◽  
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...  

Cloud computing is a technique for storing and processing data that makes use of a network of remote servers. Cloud computing is gaining popularity due to its vast storage capacity, ease of access, and diverse variety of services. When cloud computing advanced and technologies such as virtual machines appeared, virtualization entered the scene. When customers’ computing demands for storage and servers increased, however, virtual machines were unable to match those expectations due to scalability and resource allocation limits. As a consequence, containerization became a reality. Containerization is the process of packaging software code along with all of its essential components, including frameworks, libraries, and other dependencies, such that they may be separated or separated in their own container. The program operating in containers may execute reliably in any environment or infrastructure. Containers provide OS-level virtualization, which reduces the computational load on the host machine and enables programs to run much faster and more reliably. Performance analysis is very important in comparing the throughput of both VM-based and Container-based designs. To analyze it same web application is running in both the designs. CPU usage and RAM usage in both designs were compared. Results obtained are tabulated and a Proper conclusion has been given.


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