Virtualization and dynamic resource allocation aware storage level reordering

Abstract

A system and method for reordering storage levels in a virtualized environment includes identifying a virtual machine (VM) to be transitioned and determining a new storage level order for the VM. The new storage level order reduces a VM live state during a transition, and accounts for hierarchical shared storage memory and criteria imposed by an application to reduce recovery operations after dynamic resource allocation actions. The new storage level order recommendation is propagated to VMs. The new storage level order applied in the VMs. A different storage-level order is recommended after the transition.

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BACKGROUND[0001]1. Technical Field[0002]The present invention relates to efficient interoperation of computing technologies, and more particularly to systems and methods for storage level reordering for virtual and dynamic resource allocation for memory-intensive applications.[0003]2. Description of the Related Art[0004]Emerging Internet-scale service applications operate on large amounts of data that are maintained in memory to achieve high throughput and offer low response time guarantees to users. Key catalyzers to this trend have been the significant decrease of memory cost, increase of memory capacity in machines and development and adoption of in-memory distributed storage technologies such as memcached, XAP and ObjectGrid™ As a result, In-Memory Data Grids (IMDGs) have become the cost- and performance-effective solution for such vast-scale and distributed data provisioning. Thus, many Web-scale businesses, such as Facebook™ and Twitter™, rely on some form of such memory-backe...

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Benefits of technology

The patent describes a method for efficiently migrating virtual machines in a virtualized environment. It takes into account the active footprint of the virtual machine and the usage of memory and CPU during migration. The method also considers the application characteristics and the level of overcommitment on the host. By recommending and applying a new storage level order, the method reduces the live state of the virtual machine during migration and reduces recovery operations after dynamic resource allocation actions. This results in improved performance and application performance management. The patent also describes a system for dynamically reordering storage levels for applications in virtualized systems. Overall, the patent provides a solution for efficient migration-aware state management in virtualized environments.

Problems solved by technology

While both of these trends have proven to be effective exclusively in their domains and continue to gain increasing momentum, they exhibit a striking conflict in their characteristics that can hamper their effectiveness under joint operation in a cloud environment.

This has at least two detrimental effects: (1) higher performance overhead perceived by the applications using IMDG nodes as the response times increase under dynamic allocation conditions; and (2) energy overheads due to extensive copying and recopying of live state, as well as higher resource and link usage.

Quite significant degradations can also be observed in the application performance, such as service times, depending on the application characteristics and the level of overcommitment on the host.

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