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Introduction to Reinforcement Learning
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The Vision of Autonomic Computing
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Automated Cluster-Based Web Service Performance Tuning
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eQoS: Provisioning of Client-Perceived End-to-End QoS Guarantees in Web Servers
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Live migration of virtual machines
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Automatic configuration of internet services
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Adaptive control of virtualized resources in utility computing environments
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGOPS/EuroSys European Conference on Computer Systems 2007
Scheduling I/O in virtual machine monitors
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Automatic virtual machine configuration for database workloads
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A Distributed Self-Learning Approach for Elastic Provisioning of Virtualized Cloud Resources
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Cloud computing is emerging as an increasingly important service-oriented computing paradigm. Management is a key to providing accurate service availability and performance data, as well as enabling real-time provisioning that automatically provides the capacity needed to meet service demands. In this paper, we present a unified reinforcement learning approach, namely URL, to automate the configuration processes of virtualized machines and appliances running in the virtual machines. The approach lends itself to the application of real-time autoconfiguration of clouds. It also makes it possible to adapt the VM resource budget and appliance parameter settings to the cloud dynamics and the changing workload to provide service quality assurance. In particular, the approach has the flexibility to make a good trade-off between system-wide utilization objectives and appliance-specific SLA optimization goals. Experimental results on Xen VMs with various workloads demonstrate the effectiveness of the approach. It can drive the system into an optimal or near-optimal configuration setting in a few trial-and-error iterations.