The design and implementation of a log-structured file system
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
The working set model for program behavior
Communications of the ACM - Special 25th Anniversary Issue
Live migration of virtual machines
NSDI'05 Proceedings of the 2nd conference on Symposium on Networked Systems Design & Implementation - Volume 2
OSDI '06 Proceedings of the 7th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation - Volume 7
Remus: high availability via asynchronous virtual machine replication
NSDI'08 Proceedings of the 5th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
The Datacenter as a Computer: An Introduction to the Design of Warehouse-Scale Machines
The Datacenter as a Computer: An Introduction to the Design of Warehouse-Scale Machines
Power routing: dynamic power provisioning in the data center
Proceedings of the fifteenth edition of ASPLOS on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
Delivering energy proportionality with non energy-proportional systems: optimizing the ensemble
HotPower'08 Proceedings of the 2008 conference on Power aware computing and systems
Predicting the Performance of Virtual Machine Migration
MASCOTS '10 Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems
Blink: managing server clusters on intermittent power
Proceedings of the sixteenth international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
CloudNet: dynamic pooling of cloud resources by live WAN migration of virtual machines
Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS international conference on Virtual execution environments
Overdriver: handling memory overload in an oversubscribed cloud
Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS international conference on Virtual execution environments
Performance and energy modeling for live migration of virtual machines
Proceedings of the 20th international symposium on High performance distributed computing
Benefits and limitations of tapping into stored energy for datacenters
Proceedings of the 38th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
PipeCloud: using causality to overcome speed-of-light delays in cloud-based disaster recovery
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing
Utilizing green energy prediction to schedule mixed batch and service jobs in data centers
HotPower '11 Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Power-Aware Computing and Systems
Towards realizing a low cost and highly available datacenter power infrastructure
HotPower '11 Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Power-Aware Computing and Systems
GreenSlot: scheduling energy consumption in green datacenters
Proceedings of 2011 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis
GreenHadoop: leveraging green energy in data-processing frameworks
Proceedings of the 7th ACM european conference on Computer Systems
Energy storage in datacenters: what, where, and how much?
Proceedings of the 12th ACM SIGMETRICS/PERFORMANCE joint international conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems
iSwitch: coordinating and optimizing renewable energy powered server clusters
Proceedings of the 39th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture
RemusDB: transparent high availability for database systems
The VLDB Journal — The International Journal on Very Large Data Bases
Parasol and GreenSwitch: managing datacenters powered by renewable energy
Proceedings of the eighteenth international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
Underprovisioning backup power infrastructure for datacenters
Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
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Balancing a data center's reliability, cost, and carbon emissions is challenging. For instance, data centers designed for high availability require a continuous flow of power to keep servers powered on, and must limit their use of clean, but intermittent, renewable energy sources. In this paper, we present Yank, which uses a transient server abstraction to maintain server availability, while allowing data centers to "pull the plug" if power becomes unavailable. A transient server's defining characteristic is that it may terminate anytime after a brief advance warning period. Yank exploits the advance warning--on the order of a few seconds--to provide high availability cheaply and efficiently at large scales by enabling each backup server to maintain "live" memory and disk snapshots for many transient VMs. We implement Yank inside of Xen. Our experiments show that a backup server can concurrently support up to 15 transient VMs with minimal performance degradation with advance warnings as small as 10 seconds, even when VMs run memory-intensive interactive web applications.