Affinity-Aware CPU Modeling for Virtual Machines Using KVM

The IUP Journal of Information Technology, Vol. XIV, No. 1, March 2018, pp. 7-15

Posted: 10 Oct 2018

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Garima Rastogi

DIT University, Dehradun

Rama Sushil

DIT University, Dehradun

Date Written: March 25, 2018

Abstract

In this era of technological advancements, cloud computing has become a buzzword. It increases the machine potential in terms of computing, using virtualization technology. Virtualization is the core of cloud computing, in which creation of Virtual Machines (VMs) provides scalability and portability by hosting the components of different applications. Since requirements in the cloud environment are dynamic, there is always a need to move VMs within the same cloud or among different clouds. It increases the resource utilization and computational power. As there are more than one VM that can be created on one physical host, internal scheduling is needed so that a host can handle the requirements of all the VMs that are handling different applications. The paper focuses on the concept of processor affinity and discusses its usefulness in improving the performance of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) with the help of an experiment. The main purpose of this paper is to analyze the suitability of a VM scheduling technique so that it may be decided whether the given situation is suitable for VM scheduling using processor affinity or not. The paper also compares the performance of VM in different scenarios.

Keywords: Virtualization, Processor Affinity, Virtual Machine (VM), Elasticity

Suggested Citation

Rastogi, Garima and Sushil, Rama, Affinity-Aware CPU Modeling for Virtual Machines Using KVM (March 25, 2018). The IUP Journal of Information Technology, Vol. XIV, No. 1, March 2018, pp. 7-15, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3254777

Garima Rastogi (Contact Author)

DIT University, Dehradun ( email )

Dehradun
Uttarakhand
India

Rama Sushil

DIT University, Dehradun ( email )

Dehradun
Uttarakhand
India

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