Xen and the art of virtualization
SOSP '03 Proceedings of the nineteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
CQoS: a framework for enabling QoS in shared caches of CMP platforms
Proceedings of the 18th annual international conference on Supercomputing
Fair Cache Sharing and Partitioning in a Chip Multiprocessor Architecture
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques
Enterprise IT Trends and Implications for Architecture Research
HPCA '05 Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture
Predicting Inter-Thread Cache Contention on a Chip Multi-Processor Architecture
HPCA '05 Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture
Memory resource management in VMware ESX server
OSDI '02 Proceedings of the 5th symposium on Operating systems design and implementationCopyright restrictions prevent ACM from being able to make the PDFs for this conference available for downloading
Intel Virtualization Technology
Computer
Architectural support for operating system-driven CMP cache management
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Parallel architectures and compilation techniques
Proceedings of the 39th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture
Proceedings of the 39th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture
Measuring CPU overhead for I/O processing in the Xen virtual machine monitor
ATEC '05 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
Proceedings of the 34th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
QoS policies and architecture for cache/memory in CMP platforms
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
CacheScouts: Fine-Grain Monitoring of Shared Caches in CMP Platforms
PACT '07 Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Parallel Architecture and Compilation Techniques
Stall-Time Fair Memory Access Scheduling for Chip Multiprocessors
Proceedings of the 40th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture
Characterization & analysis of a server consolidation benchmark
Proceedings of the fourth ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS international conference on Virtual execution environments
An Evaluation of Server Consolidation Workloads for Multi-Core Designs
IISWC '07 Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE 10th International Symposium on Workload Characterization
Q-clouds: managing performance interference effects for QoS-aware clouds
Proceedings of the 5th European conference on Computer systems
Analysis of the performance-influencing factors of virtualization platforms
OTM'10 Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on On the move to meaningful internet systems: Part II
Autonomic benchmarking for cloud infrastructures: an economic optimization model
Proceedings of the 1st ACM/IEEE workshop on Autonomic computing in economics
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing
Towards workload-aware virtual machine consolidation on cloud platforms
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication
Simplified cloud-oriented virtual machine management with MLN
The Journal of Supercomputing
Toward on-chip datacenters: a perspective on general trends and on-chip particulars
The Journal of Supercomputing
Future Generation Computer Systems
A classification of middleware to support virtual machines adaptability in IaaS
Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective Middleware
Hardware-in-the-loop simulation for automated benchmarking of cloud infrastructures
Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference
Experimental evaluation of the performance-influencing factors of virtualized storage systems
EPEW'12 Proceedings of the 9th European conference on Computer Performance Engineering
Experimental evaluation of the performance-influencing factors of virtualized storage systems
EPEW'12 Proceedings of the 9th European conference on Computer Performance Engineering
CPI2: CPU performance isolation for shared compute clusters
Proceedings of the 8th ACM European Conference on Computer Systems
Proceedings of the 4th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering
FEAS: a full-time event aware scheduler for improving responsiveness of virtual machines
ACSC '12 Proceedings of the Thirty-fifth Australasian Computer Science Conference - Volume 122
ElastMan: elasticity manager for elastic key-value stores in the cloud
Proceedings of the 2013 ACM Cloud and Autonomic Computing Conference
Black box scheduling for resource intensive virtual machine workloads with interference models
Future Generation Computer Systems
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With cloud and utility computing models gaining significant momentum, data centers are increasingly employing virtualization and consolidation as a means to support a large number of disparate applications running simultaneously on a chip-multiprocessor (CMP) server. In such environments, contention for shared platform resources (CPU cores, shared cache space, shared memory bandwidth, etc.) can have a significant effect on each virtual machine's performance. In this paper, we investigate the shared resource contention problem for virtual machines by: (a) measuring the effects of shared platform resources on virtual machine performance, (b) proposing a model for estimating shared resource contention effects, and (c) proposing a transition from a virtual machine (VM) to a virtual platform architecture (VPA) that enables transparent shared resource management through architectural mechanisms for monitoring and enforcement. Our measurement and modeling experiments are based on a consolidation benchmark (vConsolidate) running on a state-of-the-art CMP server. Our virtual platform architecture experiments are based on detailed simulations of consolidation scenarios. Through detailed measurements and simulations, we show that shared resource contention affects virtual machine performance significantly and emphasize that virtual platform architectures is a must for future virtualized datacenters.