Netshare and stochastic netshare: predictable bandwidth allocation for data centers

Authors:
Vinh The Lam;Sivasankar Radhakrishnan;Rong Pan;Amin Vahdat;George Varghese
Affiliations:
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA;University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA;Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA, USA;University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA;University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
Venue:
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Year:
2012

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Abstract

Application performance in cloud data centers often depends crucially on network bandwidth, not just the aggregate data transmitted as in typical SLAs. We describe a mechanism for data center networks called NetShare that requires no hardware changes to routers but allows bandwidth to be allocated predictably across services based on weights. The weights are either specified by a manager, or automatically assigned at each switch port based on a virtual machine heuristic for isolation. Bandwidth unused by a service is shared proportionately by other services, providing weighted hierarchical max-min fair sharing. On a testbed of Fulcrum switches, we demonstrate that NetShare provides bandwidth isolation in various settings, including multipath networks.