Virtual Machine Hosting for Networked Clusters: Building the Foundations for "Autonomic" Orchestration

  • Authors:
  • Laura Grit;David Irwin;Aydan Yumerefendi;Jeff Chase

  • Affiliations:
  • Duke University;Duke University;Duke University;Duke University

  • Venue:
  • VTDC '06 Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Virtualization Technology in Distributed Computing
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Virtualization technology offers powerful resource management mechanisms, including performance-isolating resource schedulers, live migration, and suspend/resume. But how should networked virtual computing systems use these mechanisms? A grand challenge is to devise practical policies to drive these mechanisms in a self-managing or .autonomic . system, without relying on human operators. This paper explores architectural and algorithmic issues for resource management policy and orchestration in Shirako, a system for on-demand leasing of shared networked resources in federated clusters. Shirako enables a flexible factoring of resource management functions across the participants in a federated system, to accommodate a range of models of distributed virtual computing. We present extensions to Shirako to provision fine-grained virtual machine .slivers. and drive virtual machine migration. We illustrate the interactions of provisioning and placement/migration policies, and their impact.