Performance Interference of Virtual Machines: A Survey

doi:10.1145/3573009

Performance Interference of Virtual Machines: A Survey

2023-03-02

11

PRE

AI

DOI：10.1145/3573009

Original request for help

Save

Abstract

En 中文

The rapid development of cloud computing with virtualization technology has benefited both academia and industry. For any cloud data center at scale, one of the primary challenges is how to effectively orchestrate a large number of virtual machines (VMs) in a performance-aware and cost-effective manner. A key problem here is that the performance interference between VMs can significantly undermine the efficiency of cloud data centers, leading to performance degradation and additional operation cost. To address this issue, extensive studies have been conducted to investigate the problem from different aspects. In this survey, we make a comprehensive investigation into the causes of VM interference and provide an in-depth review of existing research and solutions in the literature. We first categorize existing studies on interference models according to their modeling objectives, metrics used, and modeling methods. Then we revisit interference-aware strategies for scheduling optimization as well as co-optimization-based approaches. Finally, the survey identifies open challenges with respect to VM interference in data centers and discusses possible research directions to provide insights for future research in the area.

Keywords:

Cloud data center

VM performance interference

measuring and modeling

scheduling optimization

Performance Interference of Virtual Machines: A Survey

Abstract

Journal

Organization