Runtime Vertical Scaling of Virtualized Applications via Online Model Estimation

• Published in: International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (Print) pp. 157 - 166
• Main Authors: Spinner, Simon, Kounev, Samuel, Xiaoyun Zhu, Lei Lu, Uysal, Mustafa, Holler, Anne, Griffith, Rean
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.09.2014
• Subjects: application performance management; auto-scaling; Delays; Estimation; resource demand estimation; Resource management; Runtime; Servers; Throughput; vertical scaling; Virtual machine monitors; virtualization

Applications in virtualized data centers are often subject to Service Level Objectives (SLOs) regarding their performance (e.g., latency or throughput). In order to fulfill these SLOs, it is necessary to allocate sufficient resources of different types (CPU, memory, I/O, etc.) to an application. How...